The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Before the battle, Klaus was expecting an intense fight—one where his side would have to do everything they could to win. However, he was shocked when that didn’t happen.

In fact, it was after observing the first ten minutes of the battle that he finally understood something the senior had always been telling him.

He told Klaus his strength alone wasn’t enough. The strength of his friends, loved ones, and team was the only way he could win all the battles that would befall the earth.

Now, Klaus saw what he meant, and that alone gave him the freedom to casually walk into the Abyssal Trench to face an Ancient King and his right-hand man without worrying about his team on the outside.

“The offer is simple: Hand over the trident, and I will make sure your death isn’t as painful as I initially planned. Refuse, and I will ensure you go through a world of pain.”

Klaus gently tapped the formation with his index finger, and like glass, it shattered, pushing the chaos-stage monster powering it back. Some even died from the backlash.

“So what do you say, King Kordax?”

“Kill him.”

The order was absolute as all chaos-stage monsters lunged at Klaus, ready to break him into several parts.

“Futile.”

Klaus smiled and then waved his hand, unleashing thousands of spirit weapons. The monsters came to a halt when the weapons appeared, casting a dark shadow over the sky.

“Told ya.”

With a gesture, the weapons moved at a speed that most monsters noticed only while their bodies were shutting down.

It all happened in an instant, but all thousand-plus Chaos-stage beings died.

But Klaus didn’t allow them to rest in peace. He waved his hand, and his Devouring Ice consumed them, devouring their bodies and sending the energy into his cores.

Now that his cores had turned into stars, the moment the energies entered them, Klaus felt his strength soaring.

’After devouring the thousands of sea beasts I killed during my hunt and these losers, my 5th core has formed. I am sure after devouring the bodies on the outside, I will be close to the void stage.’

Klaus smiled and put the spirit weapons away.

Both King Kordax and Skroll took several steps back, looking at Klaus as if he were some form of demon. Killing thousands of chaos-stage monsters in under a second, most certainly wasn’t something they saw coming.

It scared hell out of them.

“Hahahahaha…” Suddenly, laughter filled the space as a figure emerged from the trident in King Atlan’s hand and flew toward Klaus.

’A soul body,’ Klaus thought, feeling his body grow tense as he saw King Atlan move toward him. However, he made no sudden moves, for he could sense something that none of the people around could sense.

’A Domain Lord,’ Klaus thought to himself as King Atlan’s soul body stopped before him.

With his past life experiences, he recognised the danger standing before him, so he placed all his focus on King Atlan, ready to make his move.

However, that didn’t happen.

“Lord Paragon, your humble servant pays his respect.” Klaus, who wasn’t expecting King Atlan to go on his knees, was left stunned.

He didn’t even know what to do.

The person before him was a Domain Lord, someone who had reached the Domain stage and possessed an active domain—something every warrior would kill to possess.

So, for a Domain Lord to be kneeling before him, he was simply not ready for that.

However, he knew he had to do something. So, Klaus gestured for him to stand up.

King Atlan smiled. “The Lord may not recall me yet, but many years ago, you gave me a mission to seal this place. I did, and now that the Lord is awake, I can finally rest.”

“So you are not actually alive?” Klaus asked, and King Atlan nodded in response.

“Yes. I am not alive with this soul body. This is my secondary soul; the Lord helped me form it just for this mission. My true body and true soul are currently asleep somewhere in the universe.

So until this one dies, I can’t wake up in my true body.”

“I see,” Klaus understood the situation he was in. But then he turned and looked at King Kordax. “How about him? I don’t suppose, with your Domain stage strength, you kept him alive because you couldn’t kill him.”

“As expected of the Lord, he can even see through me,” King Atlan laughed. “Kordax is just a pawn in the reason why I am here.”

King Atlan waved his hand, and a path opened on one side of the space they were in. Then, from the path that opened, a box flew out and hovered before him.

“The formation requires active life to remain active, so I sealed him and his followers here to keep the contents of this box safe. My mission is to protect the box, and that is what I did. Kordax is just a greedy idiot who couldn’t even realize when he was being manipulated.”

“So the war that happened many years ago was all part of the plan,” Klaus asked, unsure if he liked using innocent people to protect just a box.

King Atlan, however, laughed.

’He seemed to do a lot of laughing,’ Klaus said to himself, but chose not to voice his thoughts.

“That battle indeed happened, but it wasn’t against real people. In fact, the main Sea Race had long left this world thanks to the Lord.

The one they fought against was my domain, and the Trident of Darkness was something I planted to make things look convincing.

I learned all this from the Lord.”

Klaus smiled, knowing the plan King Atlan used was indeed ruthless to King Kordax, but then again, he understood why.

“You protected the water people all these years, right? You went through all this for them, right?”

“Yes, I did. However, they weren’t in danger to begin with, so I merely took care of their future problem. The primary mission was to safeguard the contents of this box.

Kordax was always greedy from the start, so when I had the chance, I used him and his followers as the energy source.”

“I guess you did a rather good job, and knowing your main body is out there, I will be sure to reward you when we meet.”

King Atlan smiled. “I will be happy to receive the Lord’s reward.”

Klaus nodded and turned to King Kordax and Skroll.

Klaus smirked and said, “I suppose you guys are now boring.” He had lost the enthusiasm he had come with. Now, all he wanted was to wait for the battle to end, devour the bodies, and check what was hidden in the box.

“They are all yours,” Klaus said, turning to his left. A second later, an invisible force wrapped around King Kordax and Skroll and pulled them away.

“You can keep the trident. When you are done devouring them, come see me.”

Klaus turned to King Atlan. “Let’s talk more when we get back.” Klaus summoned his bow and unleashed a powerful strike, shattering the void. He and King Atlan moved, and soon they were back on the surface.

The first thing he saw was Prince Challa sinking his panther claws into Arwan’s chest.

On one side, Abyss was firing bullets like his life depended on it. Every last bullet fired found its mark. Then there was Lulu, who had tens of thousands of swords hovering in the air.

The formation was only 8% done, but even so, she already had thousands of swords in the air, which shows she was growing much stronger.

“Looks like your team is much more capable than most,” King Atlan said. Klaus smiled.

“They are indeed capable. At this rate, they will be done in the next thirty minutes. Let’s go.” Klaus and King Atlan flew through the clouds and soon were inside the spaceship.