The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Boom

An explosion rocked beneath the sea, creating ripples that sharply turned into waves across the surface of the sea.

The shockwave created by it also moved with the waves, creating a powerful force that even most Tier 10 sea beasts could not withstand.

Suddenly, a large shark, approximately 300 meters long, with a body larger than a mansion, appeared from the water, radiating a powerful presence.

The moment it appeared, it made a run for it, trying to escape.

“Running is not an option, Mr. Shark. Why don’t you take my offer and become my beast companion?” Klaus also appeared from the water with a grin on his face.

“Damn you, human, why can’t you just let me be?” the shark said in a deep tone, doing its best to run away.

However, with mere steps, Klaus was closing the gap between them, showing how fast he had become despite the shark being in its element.

Klaus looked at the struggle the shark was going through and smiled. “That’s the thing, Mr. Shark. Letting you be is not something I can afford.

I would love nothing more than to see you go back to ruling your sea kingdom, but as it turns out, my enemies are rather shameless, so if I don’t get you on my side, they will, and that will be something I can’t afford.”

“I promise I won’t come against you, so please let me be.”

Klaus shook his head. “Wouldn’t that be awesome. However, whether you become my enemy or not isn’t yours to decide. And since I know for certain that you will become my enemy, I cannot let you go.

But look on the bright side, I am not trying to kill you. I just want you to become my subordinate. I promised to transform you into a powerful and perfect version of yourself in just a few weeks.

You’d better jump on that offer before your rivals, whom I’ve visited and have already taken my offer, are now ahead of you.

Of course, I can choose to leave you now, but the moment your rivals are done with their awakening, I will release them back to the sea, and I promise you, death will come to you much faster than you hope for.

So take my offer, and one day you will look back on this day and just laugh over how stupid you were for nearly rejecting this amazing offer.”

Klaus wasn’t attacking; he was merely chasing the shark, who, no matter what, couldn’t shake him off. This chase continued for 20 minutes before the shark suddenly came to a halt and transformed into a demi-shark form.

It had a humanoid body and a shark head.

“Looks like you finally came to your senses, Mr. Shark. I expected you to join me when I arrived, considering word had already spread of my hunts.”

“So you are the hunter every sea beast was talking about?” the shark asked, looking at Klaus with a furious expression.

“No need to look angry. If not for the shared destiny between us, I would have already killed you and used your body for food. I am sure you would taste delicious.”

Klaus laughed, but the shark didn’t share his sentiment.

“So, are you going to take my offer, or should we get back to the chase?”

In the end, after some internal struggle, the shark bowed, and Klaus gave it his blood. Klaus sighed and then took out a notepad, crossing out a name from it.

“One more to go.” He smiled.

It had already been two weeks since he dove into the sea and started hunting the sea beasts. The results were nothing short of amazingly terrifying.

Before, Klaus and his team were only focused on the creatures on land and in the air. However, they forgot about those under the sea.

It was only when Klaus came to save the scientist from the Bast race that he saw how terrifying the sea truly was.

So, fueled by what he saw in Magnus’s memory, Klaus set off to clean the sea and make sure the heavens didn’t use the creatures of the deep against him.

The last two weeks had been nothing short of amazing.

Klaus, who was rather meticulous about the hunt, made a bountiful harvest. He killed those whose blood didn’t resonate with his, and took those with whom he shared destiny.

Of course, he didn’t go on a murder spree. That would be bad because he knew future warriors would need beasts to kill to level up, so he only went after the Transcendent (Tier 9) stage and higher.

Even so, he didn’t kill most of those he didn’t share destiny with.

But so far, he had managed to gather 7,500 Tier 9 sea beasts, each currently undergoing their awakening inside the cube.

He also got 4,300 Tier 10 sea beasts. This was a shock to him, for he never expected the sea to have this many dangers hidden within.

Just half of these Tier 10 beasts could create so much chaos a few months back for him and his people. So Klaus knew this was a good thing.

If they were left to roam freely, the heavens would use them to make things much more difficult for him.

But aside from them, he was also shocked when he found 908 Void stage (Tier 11) beasts under the sea. This was when Klaus truly saw the danger.

So he went all out, taking all 908 alive before he later found out there were even more dangers in the form of Tier 12 (Chaos stage) beasts ruling the sea.

This discovery set Klaus on a hunt, one that, thanks to his recent breakthrough, he was able to get all 34 Chaos stage beasts.

Thankfully, he met a peaceful Chaos stage sea beast, a seahorse, who helped him compile a list of all Chaos stage beasts living under the sea.

This made the hunt much faster.

However, he was now left with one last beast to hunt, this one a sea dragon, and from what the seahorse told him, this dragon was the strongest of them.

Klaus was looking forward to that.

Of course, he was also keeping track of what was happening on the surface.

After the ladies used his blood again, they joined the hunt with the team, who, like Klaus, went about their business meticulously.

A week ago, they concluded their hunt, and the results were simply amazing.

Queenie came for a rather large amount of his blood, which every last one of them retook. This time, it took them only four days to evolve again.

Every last one of them had reached the Void stage, with even a couple of them reaching the Chaos stage.

Though Klaus soon knew all of them would reach the Chaos stage.

Queenie was also working with the Bast race to establish and further strengthen the new alliance.

His beast army had also multiplied several times. The weakest was at the Level 1 Void stage, and the strongest was already at the peak of the Chaos stage.

However, he was sure that with his new overpowered blood and the new additions, dozens would reach the Ascension stage.

He wasn’t panicking, for he noticed the heavens were having a hard time estimating Earth’s strength through his beast if they were inside the multi-dimensional cube.

So he planned to keep all Ascension stage beasts there and only unleash the Chaos stage beasts in the upcoming war with the lost kingdom.

Klaus was prepared for the war and almost prepared for the Awakening. But for now, he needed to hunt down his last target.