The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

The moment the Savage King learned that Klaus had already anticipated his plan to attack the human settlements, while all of Earth’s warriors were attacking him, he began attacking even more seriously.

Klaus, of course, also got serious.

The attacks coming his way weren’t something he could be complacent about. So, he started fighting seriously as well. He was finally understanding the power of a ‘Chaos’ stage warrior.

“There is no need to continue to struggle, Zombie King… You’ve lost, so be a lamp and die already.” Klaus jumped away from a blast of red energy, narrowly evading a sword arc.

Landing on the ground, Klaus used the ‘Vanishing Step’ to dodge another attack. He disappeared and appeared 1 km away.

The second form of the ‘7-Star Astra Movement Art’ is for quick teleportation. It allows him to teleport within a 12-mile radius. It was a mere 4 km just a while ago, but now that he has become a Transcendent, the distance has widened.

In fact, so far, when it comes to movement, he has already reached a stage that nobody on Earth can keep up with—well, nobody on Earth he has met.

7-Star Astra Movement Art: Phantom Step ↠ Vanishing Step ↠ Void Step ↠ Spatial Step

So far, he had only unlocked four of the seven forms. But in his battle with the Savage King, despite it entering the heated stage, he was only using the first two forms.

And while Klaus would love to say he had already reached perfection in mastering the two forms he is using, the truth is, he hadn’t scratched the surface yet.

The 7-Star Astra Movement Art is a profound movement technique created by Paragon, his first incarnation, refined by Knox in his second incarnation, and further refined by Asura in his third incarnation, before being further developed by Fruity, the fourth incarnation.

So far, he knew he was missing a lot. But since he was using it to his advantage, he would focus on the rest later. However, he knew that would take some time to reach perfection.

But he had a feeling that the day he mastered the technique and all 7 forms to perfection, his battle prowess would reach a different level of madness.

Klaus vanished again and appeared 2 km away from the Savage King and raised his sword. “Asura Crazy Sword Strike.” The Skull of Doom appeared, dripping sinister red energy.

It dissolved into the sword.

He swung his sword and brought it down, sending a wide red arc slamming into the defense of the Savage King. The shield of red energy cracked, and the shockwave from the attack slammed into his body, sending him flying back.

Klaus was already on the move, unleashing three more attacks.

All three attacks struck the Savage King because he had been late in raising his defenses. When he managed to get back on his feet, a powerful spear made of ice and coated in lightning arrived in front of him.

BOOM

The attack slammed into his chest, piercing the metallic armor he wore. However, it didn’t penetrate his skin as Klaus had anticipated.

‘Only 5%, but it managed to pierce his armor, but not his body… Maybe I should use 10%, or would that be too much?’ Klaus wondered while unleashing flame arcs, ice arcs, and lightning arcs.

The battle was already nearing its end for his friends, so he was planning to finish off the Savage King as well.

‘I will use 10%, but only as a final kill… He must die with some dignity, if he even has any left. But he helped me learn how to use the ‘Phantom Step’ and ‘Vanishing Step’ to some degree, so that is the least I can do for him.’

Just like that, Klaus set his killing move in motion.

Meanwhile, on the larger battlefield, Lulu hovered in the air surrounded by thousands of swords. However, if one looked closely, the swords were spread exactly 10 meters apart from each other, creating something akin to a net formation.

Additionally, each sword bore a runic mark…

But aside from the distance and the runes, the last detail was invisible to the naked eye, but to someone like Klaus, who could see soul energy, he saw several strings latching onto the swords, each connected to the body of a dead zombie.

All the dead zombies she had linked the swords to were killed by her. However, while it may seem like not much, the energy from the dead zombies was seeping into the swords, carving runes on them.

These runes were part of a formation Lulu was creating. She had started from the battle on the moon. However, due to the limited number of kills, she had to continue from this battle.

The formation was something the ‘Formation Queen,’ one of the few to reach the pinnacle of Array and Formation cultivation, had created and refined to the absolute peak several million years ago.

They called her the Formation Queen, and later changed it to Supreme Rune Queen. The legend of the Formation Queen is still told to all new Array and Formation masters to this day.

In the realm of Array and Formation building, there are 13 stages:

Common ↠ Master ↠ Grandmaster ↠ Saint ↠ King ↠ Emperor ↠ Monarch ↠ Legend ↠ Immortal ↠ God ↠ Supreme ↠ Celestial ↠ Runesmith

Most people only reach the Celestial stage because becoming a Runesmith is not plausible. Back during the Death Era, the Formation Queen rose to prominence with her ultimate formation, the ‘Endless Sword Domain.’

As its name suggests, the formation is designed to create a domain of swords, one where they can be controlled using a single connection.

Instead of controlling every sword using a portion of her brain, the Formation Queen designed a formation where all swords would be linked into one. With a single command, all swords would respond.

It was a passion project she started when she was starting out as a Formation master, and she continued to refine it until, thanks to a fateful encounter with the Dead Lord, she managed to complete it, making her the second Runesmith to have walked the universe.

The Endless Sword Domain, a formation that brought about the Death Era, was now being created once again. This time, everything was perfect from the start because it had been perfected millions of years ago.

Lulu, the strongest Spirit Master and the second Runesmith to walk the universe, didn’t even know that the formation she was building had once killed immortals, gods, Supremes, and the Celestials.

But would you blame her? Her past self had already told her what needed to be done, and in order not to regret it, she began building it now.

It was all she could do if she wanted to repay her debt…