The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Klaus knew for a fact that the ice demon and the demi-lion would love such a moment of vulnerability to attack him. So his big brain helped him prevent that from happening.

He coughed and stood, his armor cracked but glowing faintly.

The Head of Death was still working, healing the broken parts. The heads of Time, Space, and Void were also working, but their job was more about shielding Klaus from Law and soul attacks.

Klaus looked up and saw the archer drawing a massive arrow of pure energy.

“Time to feel the pain,” he said and vanished from sight.

Vraen fired the arrow, but Klaus appeared beside him before it could hit.

He grabbed the elf’s arm and twisted it.

Bones cracked.

The elf screamed, but Klaus’s knee came crashing into his chest, sending him flying. Before the elf could land, Klaus summoned a spirit chain that wrapped around him and pulled him to the ground.

Drayk tried to help, but Klaus snapped his fingers. The ground beneath the dragon exploded with dark spikes that pierced through his limbs.

The masked figure, who was also on the move even before Klaus attacked the archer, backed away mid-flight.

She saw through Klaus’s intentions, so she backed away but sacrificed Drayk to confirm her suspicions about the paragon.

Klaus, who still aimed to blind the poor elf, also saw through the masked figure’s motive, so instead of showing her what she wanted to know, Klaus chose to cut Drayk’s arm.

Now that he was injured, Klaus knew it was only a matter of time before he cut his arm off.

’How to cut a dragon’s arms off,’ Klaus smiled, forming 13 ways to go about cutting his arm off. In the end, he picked the 4th method.

’First, teleport and create a misdirection.’ Klaus teleported and appeared behind the ice demon and attacked with a powerful punch. His fist landed on his back, sending him flying forward.

Drayk, who thought Klaus would attack him, sighed in his heart.

’Second, further make him lower his guard.’ Klaus, instead of lunging back at him, evaded a swing from the Supreme Human and moved toward the masked figure, who never saw Klaus coming.

Klaus clashed with her, and they both were pushed back…

’Third, lower your guard and let him come close.’

Klaus, being a good actor, faked his fall and landed much closer to Drayk. The demi-dragon fell for it, and so he took the bait.

He lunged at Klaus, aiming to kill him…

’Fourth, cut his arm off in the most unusual way.’

Klaus smirked, and then a disc-shaped weapon moved out, and just when Drayk saw victory smile at him, his right dominant arm came off.

Drayk roared in pain, his blood spraying across the battlefield. The smell of burning flesh filled the air as his molten blood hit the ground.

Klaus didn’t stop there.

He swung his sword again, forcing the dragon to retreat, his painful cries filling the battlefield.

The elf, still chained to the ground, struggled to break free. Klaus pointed his hand at him, and a spirit dagger flew straight toward Vraen’s face. The elf managed to turn his head, but the blade cut across his eye, blinding him instantly.

Vraen screamed, clutching his face.

Klaus smiled coldly. “Ah, that feeling when all plans come together somehow.”

Before he could finish, a freezing wind blew from behind.

The Ice Demon had finally joined the fight, and the Supreme Human retreated.

Sharp shards of ice flew at Klaus, each carrying deadly cold energy. He raised his blade and swung it in a wide arc. A wave of dark flame burst out, melting the ice midair.

Still, a few shards struck his armor, cracking the surface. Klaus was still hiding his forbidden ice for when he truly needed it.

After all, he plans to kill the Ice demon with it.

Of course, he wasn’t helpless despite half his body being frozen from the impact.

Frost spread across his arm. Klaus gritted his teeth and stomped the ground, releasing death qi. The frost vanished, replaced by black mist that hissed like a living thing.

[Paragon, you can use the Void essence to ward off the ice qi whenever it slips into your bones.] Nullis, the head of the Void, said, and Klaus nodded.

He twisted his body and kicked at the Ice Demon. However, a dangerous feeling appeared behind him, causing him to turn to his right…

The masked figure appeared again. She threw her daggers at him—five at once. Klaus moved fast, deflecting four.

The fifth grazed his cheek, drawing blood.

’She is getting serious,’ Klaus kept his composure and began facing her more actively.

—

Meanwhile, Queenie, who was locked in with a Nirvana Stage warrior, suddenly landed a clean attack on the damn warrior, who not only wanted to kill Queenie but was planning to capture her and have his way with her first before killing her.

However, the Asura Queen, who meant business, soon made him realize that saving his own neck would be a miracle.

As she executed a series of attacks, she started to make the bastard bleed more. Naturally, to someone who needs blood to harness her abilities, the more cuts she makes, the closer she gets to killing her opponent.

’I never expected to face such a stubborn opponent in this awakening.’ Queenie ran circles around her opponent before creating a shockwave by stomping down.

Then she pivoted and tapped into the blood on the battlefield, forming blood spears.

The Nirvana Stage angel tried to defend, but a sudden appearance of another redhead caught him off guard…

“What…”

Sura, Queenie’s beast companion, appeared and lunged at him. However, he managed to block, only to feel a sharp sting come from his cheek.

Queenie used Nebula’s dagger, and the distraction from her beast companion, who had been protecting Tifa all this time, created an opening for her to deliver the kill move.

“Let’s go, Sura. He is as good as dead.” Queenie teleported away with Sura.

The Nirvana Stage warrior, who was using his spiritual qi when he was poisoned, froze on the spot. He tried to suppress the poison; however, Nebula put a lot of work into making her deadly poison.

Suppressing it was next to impossible.

It took a lot of willpower, but after a minute, he dropped to his knees and life faded from his eyes.

Queenie had done the impossible, and now, she was going to commit a massacre.

—

Meanwhile, on one side of the battlefield, a purple mist covered everything. From the start of the battle, Ohema opened her poison domain, and since then, nobody had heard from her again.

She said nothing to anyone, and even Klaus, who was keeping an eye on his wives, failed to see through her domain.

It was like she had vanished from the battle and died where she was gone.

However, what many failed to realize was that, as the battle raged on, a portal opened in the shadows, and Nia and her sisters teamed up to face it.

They had been fighting there since, even taking on two Nirvana Stage warriors.

But a second portal also opened, and, unluckily for the one who opened it, they appeared in Ohema’s poison domain.

Initially, Ohema’s main aim for opening her domain was to create poison fiends. However, that changed when the portal opened and two Nirvana Stages, alongside 15 Monarchs and 50 Death Stage warriors, appeared.

Then, she saw two more portals open on the outside, so she knew sending these people out would be dangerous for others.

So she chose the suicide route.