The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

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Klaus crashed into an asteroid, his body blasting through it like a ragdoll shot into space using a space cannon.

He let out a series of dry coughs before coming to a halt. Several bones in his body are already broken, but he held on.

The past few minutes had been hectic. With each death, he learned and adapted, ensuring he lasted much longer before the next one.

However, despite his efforts, he was only able to last 9 minutes before the loop broke. Now, he had 6 minutes to hold on to his dear life.

Obviously, Blood Shadow was already aware that help was coming, so she was putting in so much effort into killing Klaus.

[Five minutes, Master.]

Klaus was blasted back again. However, he applied the Law of Gravity to himself, bringing himself to a halt, and then, tapping into the void, he vanished.

However, he couldn’t stay too long inside the void, not when Blood Shadow was also burning her flame law, overheating space.

Klaus has a ’super’ comprehension of the Void Law, so using it is much easier and lasts longer than the other laws. However, like every other law, Blood Shadow found a counter, so the least he could do was spend 5 seconds inside the void.

That was helping him keep his dear life alive.

Slowly, with gory wounds and devastating injuries appearing on his body, he started to slow down, his body giving up on him.

[I advise the Master to use the Death Channel.] Icon became worried, so she started urging Klaus to tap into his death abilities. However, he didn’t want to just yet.

’Not yet, Icon. Not yet.’

Klaus dodged a dagger, only for a second one to appear before him, grazing his cheek. He tried hard to dodge, but he was again cut, adding to the pain.

[The Master is losing too much blood. If the Master doesn’t use the Death Channel, he might pass out before help arrives.]

Klaus gritted his teeth and then forced himself to dodge another attack, only for a dead shadow spear to arrive before his chest.

He used [Intangible Me] to evade. However, just when his body became tangible, a dagger found its way into his chest, aimed at his heart.

Thankfully, Klaus was quick to act, moving his heart from the left to the right, causing the dagger to pierce through nothing. Even so, it hurt like hell.

”Shameless Immortal,” Klaus muttered coldly as he entered the void, moving 300 km away.

He appeared again, looking even more rugged. He coughed blood and added to his insult, ”At your age, does bullying 23-year-olds feel like a good thing to you?”

Blood Shadow ignored him and moved to try her luck at killing him again. However, thousands of ice walls appeared, covering a large part of the space.

This slowed her down a bit, allowing Klaus to slip into the void again. But by the time she made her way to him, Klaus was already gone.

”Sneaky bastard,” she cursed, and then caught Klaus’s presence inside her domain yet again. However, this time, Klaus tapped into his metal element and formed thousands of metal walls from the asteroids around.

He stacked them, covering himself to the point that a large cocoon of metal filled the space.

Blood Shadow came to a halt, her expression changing from anger to confusion.

Klaus had just used the Ice element, only to switch to metal. If that isn’t too shocking, then nothing is. However, inasmuch as she would love to admire Klaus’s monstrosity when it comes to elemental affinity, she had less than three minutes to kill him.

When she first had the chance, she tried to enslave Klaus, since that would have given her a prodigy who would be completely under her control.

Although she came to kill him, the fact that Klaus was able to survive that long under her attack was enough to tell her that he was a prodigy. Having him on her side would benefit her more than killing him.

However, she soon realised enslaving him was not an option. Thus, killing him would be the best course of action. Now, she had less than three minutes before her time ran out.

So she blasted through the wall of metal, breaking it like it was mere twigs, forcing her way toward Klaus, who had time to drink a healing wine.

When Blood Shadow saw him taking a gulp of wine as she blasted through the last line of his defence, she nearly coughed blood.

”Loser.”

Klaus winked and gave her the middle finger before jumping into the void. However, this time, he left a little care package for her.

Just when Blood Shadow arrived at where Klaus entered the void, an ice explosion rune appeared and exploded in her face, encasing her in a block of ice.

”BASTARD!”

The ice exploded, and she exploded forward, meeting Klaus in yet another fierce combat, this time catching him before he could enter the void again.

[One minute, Master.]

”I hope this was worth it,” Klaus said, his eyes turning crimson as red smoke started to appear. At one point, his hair started to elongate, falling down his back.

His speed started to increase, and the force behind his strikes also started to increase.

Klaus decided to burn his bloodline, using the method [Chaos] left him. His speed tripled, and his strength doubled, allowing him to match Blood Shadow to some extent.

[10% burned, Master.]

’Hold on for now. It would be over soon.’

Klaus distanced himself from Blood Shadow and said, ”I hope this was worth dooming yourself and all Blood Shadows out there. Believe me when I say this, I will kill every Blood Shadow assassin I meet. But even if I don’t meet them, I will hunt them down.”

He used Void Step to move 30 km and added, ”As long as you draw breath, I will never stop. So I hope today was worth it.”

Just as Klaus said that, he sensed a presence appear in the air. However, even without turning to look, he knew someone was double-crossing him.

”James, what are you doing?” Immortal Lord Phobas asked, a sword appearing in his hands as he also appeared in the air. At once, the aura of a seasoned warrior surrounded him, causing Immortal Lord James to frown.

”I am a mercenary, Phobas. And as such, when a 40-billion Heavens Crystal bounty is posted, I can’t help but accept it.” He pointed at Klaus and added, ”Blood Shadow posted a bounty, and so I have accepted it. Or do you want to stand in the way of the mercenary code of conduct?”

”Don’t do that, James,” Immortal Lord Phobas pleaded; however, James turned and pointed his sword at Klaus.

”Your luck is bad, kid.” With that, a powerful fire beam exploded from Immortal Lord James’s spear.

Klaus came to a sudden halt, his body locked down by the beam. However, instead of panicking, he smiled and looked at his left hand.

Blood Shadow saw this and instantly frowned. However, before she could do anything, Klaus stabbed himself in the head.

At the same time, a spaceship appeared 300 km away, and a powerful silver arrow exploded from inside, followed by a chilling voice... ”Who dares?”