The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

When Klaus passed through the 3rd core, he didn’t find the Demon Bead there. He wanted to ask the senior about it, but he said nothing and continued through the other cores.

He only pegs it as one of those things that usually happens to the bead. He knew it would appear eventually, and he was right.

The bead was indeed going through a final phase before it fully opened.

Now, however, he was inside the 7th core and was about to approach the gem when he felt the bead appear and start emitting powerful energy from within the third core.

He immediately forgoes the gem and moves to the 3rd core to check what is happening.

When he arrived, he saw the bead surrounded by golden runic circles. They were similar to the ones he had seen when he used the [Falling into Despair] technique.

[The bead is opening,] the senior said, making Klaus smile. He then moved closer. When he was just a few steps away, a golden light shone from the bead and bathed him in its radiance.

Then he vanished, and the next second, he was inside the bead, standing atop a mountain. There was no colour in the air, and everything inside the space was colourless.

Even Klaus was colourless, and from the look on his face, the pressure pressing down on him was preventing him from looking up.

But Klaus wasn’t one to give in easily, so he unleashed his energy, and using his powerful mind and will, he raised his head.

That was when he came face to face, eye to eye, with a dragon. In the air was a massive dragon with red eyes and a colossal body that measured 800 meters long and 300 meters wide.

Its head was enormous, with two red glowing eyes large enough to make Klaus feel as though he was under the suppression of an evil immortal.

The feeling was both divine and sinister at the same time.

Klaus’s mind immediately went to where he tried using a strange part of his consciousness to check inside the bead but nearly died.

The same eyes staring at him now were the same that nearly killed him back when he was just rising through the ranks.

⟪How interesting. To think the one who subdued me would feel so tiny under my gaze. I have to give it to you, Paragon; you may have won during the primordial era, but you’ve lost today. Look how your legs are shaking.⟫

Klaus didn’t retort to what the dragon said, nor did he feel shocked. No, he was terrified to the point that, if possible, he would have wanted to run to his mommy.

The dragon spoke, and it sounded amused. That wasn’t good, and Klaus knew it, but he also felt he had nothing to worry about.

So he had to be a man and stand his ground.

“Who are you?” he asked in the most manly tone he could muster. However, to the dragon, he sounded like a child.

Klaus was scared, and this time, he wasn’t recovering from the feeling. The sense of despair was just too overwhelming.

⟪I see you have indeed managed to reincarnate, and from the look of things, you’ve succeeded quite well. But to think you are this weak, even struggling to withstand just 2 per cent of my true power—you’ve truly disappointed me, Paragon.⟫

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The dragon spoke again and Klaus frowned. The way the dragon was talking to him didn’t sit right with him. He should be the one looking down on the lizard in the air, not the other way around.

“I don’t know who you are or how we know each other, but if you’re feeling good about winning against a mere Great Sage, then I really look down on you.

From your presence, I can tell you are—or at least were—something akin to a god. So why feel good about making me, a mortal, despair?

I am disappointed.”

Klaus spoke those words not out of fear or boldness—no, it was out of terror. The dragon didn’t immediately reply.

Klaus was also just there, waiting for its response, considering he had just called out a dragon. He wasn’t sure why, but it felt both good and terrible saying those words.

⟪Bold. Looks like you never lost your boldness. But are you sure you want to be bold, considering I can squash you like a bug?⟫

“I don’t think so. The fact that you are inside this space means that many years ago, I trapped you, and I know myself enough to know I wouldn’t do something halfheartedly.

So, Mr. Dragon, you don’t have what it takes to kill me despite your presence and power.” Klaus said again, gathering some boldness.

⟪True, but I can torture you for years. Though I can’t kill you, as you said, I can torture you, and trust me, you wouldn’t want that.

After all, you’ve used a sliver of my power to torture your enemies, and you saw how harrowing it can be.⟫

“Then why are you not torturing me?” Klaus asks, slowly gaining some ground and chunks of his confidence.

⟪That is because I made a deal with you, and I will live up to that deal. So until then, you can consider yourself lucky for trapping a true nightmare.⟫

“So you are a nightmare, huh? Looks like those old monks weren’t wrong,” Klaus said in a slightly amused tone. “If you are a nightmare, then how come you are now trapped? Shouldn’t you be out there tormenting people?”

⟪Are you mocking me?⟫ The dragon asked, its presence rising slightly. Klaus instantly turned pale, even struggling to breathe.

“I just asked a question,” Klaus responded, but the dragon wasn’t having any of it. It wanted to show Klaus who was in charge.

⟪You have to remember, kid, you were once the most feared person in the entire universe, but the current you is a nobody in the grand scheme of things. So you would do well to remember that.⟫

Klaus again didn’t like what the lizard said.

“That’s the thing. The current me is indeed very pitiful. But I was once the person who placed you in this cage… That means I can be that person again. And let me tell you, after our last parting, I reincarnated eight different times.

This means the new me, who will soon rise to the level you once knew, will be nine times more dangerous. So tell me, Mr. Dragon, do you want to make me an enemy now and pay for it later, or will you do well to be on my good side and let us cause despair together?”

Klaus asked, exuding a presence that made the dragon ahead feel the weight of something it shouldn’t provoke.

The Paragon Might Klaus awakened was not for show… It was something even dragons seemed to fear. The threat was backed with the might of a Paragon…there is no going against it

⟪Why don’t I introduce myself? I go by the name Allister, the True Nightmare of Despair. But you can call me the Monarch of Despair.⟫