The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

By the time I finished reading about him, I became so angry that I wanted to drive my spear through his heart and be done with it.

Naturally, I got the chance to do that just five months after reading about him.

On this fateful day, the heavens spoke to me, and that was when I found myself going to this remote world, where I was told the strongest is merely at the Nether stage.

They told me my target is stepping into the Chaos stage on an uninhabitable planet, where even if his slaves were to find out about the danger coming to their master, they would be too late to stop me.

When I arrived, our gaze met, and for a moment, I felt a bloodlust I never knew I had appear in my eyes. It was like my entire body was screaming at me to attack.

However, as a heavenly guardian, one rule I can never break is attacking my opponent first. This rule has been set so that all Heavens’ Guardians will have a reason to kill.

The moment they are attacked, the heavens will rule it as an attack against them, which then will give them the justification to kill.

Not many knew this rule.

However, when I arrived in this world, the paragon I was sent to kill not only knew of this hidden rule, but he also knew of the two-hour cooldown time.

He knew that even if he were to provoke me, provided he didn’t attack first, I wouldn’t be able to retaliate against him.

Aside from that, he even knew after two hours, I could attack, and so he planned well.

In a way, he seemed even more relaxed, almost as if he was expecting me.

He manifested a throne and sat down with a smug expression. I couldn’t wait long enough to wipe it off his face.

Then he started to speak.

At first, I wasn’t paying attention to him. However, that all changed when he mentioned my ancestor’s name and started saying all kinds of things about her that even I don’t know.

I called his bullshit from the beginning; however, as he continued to speak, the star tattoo that had been dormant from the day I joined the heavens started to glow.

The more this paragon spoke, the more it glowed. Then something happened, and it completely shattered my mind.

I saw it. I saw the lies told to me by the heavens. I saw the manipulations they’d put me through over the 90 years I worked for them.

The more this paragon continued to speak, the clearer things became for me.

Eventually, things became so vivid that I could tell the heavens had been manipulating and planting false information in my head all this time.

However, even knowing that, I couldn’t just abandon my mission when my ultimate goal was to free my ancestor. If I dont kill him, my ancestor will forever be locked up in the timeless prison.

So I saw it as a means to an end. Killing him is a means for me to free my ancestor.

However, just when the paragon ended his speech, a voice entered my head.

“Don’t be an idiot, Aloy. Listen to him and pledge your loyalty to him if you ever want to have a shot at saving me and our people.”

I had never heard my ancestor’s voice before or even known her. However, at that moment, when the voice entered my head, I knew it was hers.

So I didn’t hesitate and submitted to this paragon. However, right when I did, the heavens locked their gaze on me.

I was so scared at that very moment that I nearly broke down into tears.

However, when my mind was breaking, the white-haired human boy I was sent to kill smirked and stood between me and the heavens.

In the moment just before he sent me away, I saw it.

I saw the back of someone who isn’t afraid of the heavens. I saw the back of someone who truly believes he is equal to or even greater than the heavens.

In that very moment, although I am older and stronger than he is, I felt a deep respect for him. The back of this human was one that told me, in the difficult moments, with him by my side, I wouldn’t have to worry.

He then sent me to a strange pocket world.

When I entered this place, the heavens didn’t follow me. In that moment, I also felt something powerful happening in my body, so I sat down to cultivate.

A day later, I realized what was happening.

It turns out the blood I took was more than it appeared.

Not only was my cultivation base rapidly surging forward, but my lightning Law comprehension and Domain were also undergoing some changes. I never expected to reach such a stage in a thousand years.

Then it happened five days later.

My cultivation reached the Level 9 Domain stage, and my Law comprehension advanced to the Adept stage.

My Domain has integrated further with my Law, making it much stronger than ever. But that wasn’t all, I have also awakened my bloodline, and the power it brought made me finally realize what the heavens were afraid of.

My bloodline has a unique talent that allows us to, to some extent, create our own Law based on Poisons.

Naturally, that shouldn’t have been possible, considering that creating our own Law is akin to telling the heavens we are now the same level as them. But in a way, we are indeed on the same level as them now.

However, it will take some time to create my own Poison Law.

I also awakened a bloodline trait that wiped all fears of the heavens from my heart and replaced it with unyielding loyalty to the one known as the Paragon of the Nine Stars.

It was only after my bloodline awakening that I finally saw the lies of the heavens.

However, I also became worried.

I finally realized what this defiance of mine would cost my world.

Naturally, I started to panic.

However, before I could enter a state of agitation, a white-haired human boy and six identical sextuplets appeared before me.

I was taken aback, but regained my composure much faster.

Then I looked at him and wondered what he wanted from me. His words, however, shook me…

“If you are worried about your world, don’t be. They will be fine, and one day you will get to go back to them.”

I wondered if he was reading my mind. However, I wiped that thought from my mind. So what if he were reading my mind? In my eyes now, he is my savior and the strongest person I have ever met.

I nodded to his words.

The next second, however, one of his siblings walked toward me and extended his tiny hands. “The lightning bolt… I need it.”

I didn’t know how he knew that, but I retrieved the lightning bolt the heavens had wanted me to use to kill the paragon and handed it to the child, who accepted it with a beaming smile.

“I will be off then. It is time for me to create an arrow worthy of killing a god.”

He vanished from sight.

The paragon and his five remaining siblings smiled. Then he looked at me…

“I don’t know how lucky you are, but what do you think of your chances of getting a demigod, god, or a supreme as your master?”

My mind went blank, and when we moved, I didn’t even know. By the time I realized, we were standing before a field featuring thousands of statues.

“Welcome to the land of inheritance.” The paragon said and then smiled at me. However, before I could say anything, I felt a presence grab hold of my body and pull me away.

That was how I met the one they once called Spear of Judgment and became his disciple.

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