The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

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The clouds exploded, and the fury of the heavens descended.

However, Klaus was rooted in a single spot, his mind blank.

At this very moment, if one were to see him, they would think his soul had given up on him, and the only thing left standing was his body.

However, Klaus was very much alive and well.

The reason he was rooted in one spot was because of the voice he heard. The voice came from the cauldron, or more accurately, the cauldron’s item spirit.

However, while the voice was young and sweet, the reason why Klaus was rooted there was the emotion it stirred within him.

It felt like Klaus had just heard the voice of a long-lost sibling, as if the voice belonged to someone he had grown up with, or someone he was related to by blood.

It felt weird, but the feeling he received was just too stimulating that he lost sight of the danger stirring atop him.

Klaus didn’t know how to feel.

He didn’t know what all this meant.

But with the heavens roaring like crazy, he forced himself to relax and focus on one thing first.

“Let me handle the heavens first.”

He could sense it.

The heavens were furious, and knowing them, they would do something beyond his expectations.

“Void, Death, I will depend on you two to protect my body this time, for I am afraid the danger coming is one beyond me.”

“Don’t worry, Paragon, we will protect you to the best of our ability.”

Klaus nodded and raised his head to look at the cloud. Everything about it had changed, with the main focus being the collapsing view he was looking at.

Looking from outer space, the current Mars was littered with thousands of cracks. The imminent destruction of Mars was at hand, and even Klaus knew that.

However, he remained calm and waited for the heavens to appear.

BOOM

The clouds exploded again, and an alien warrior wielding a long spear appeared.

The moment he appeared, the surroundings began to change.

[Heaven’s Guardian]

“Heaven’s Guardian.”

Klaus and the senior spoke in unison, recognising the figure at a glance. This wasn’t Klaus’s first time meeting a Heaven’s Guardian. In fact, he had met thousands of them and killed thousands of them.

In actuality, he never placed them in his sight for the number of times he had killed them was just too boring to even count. Especially during his life as Magnus, he stopped seeing them as anything but mere blood to sharpen his scythe with.

To him, they were nobodies.

However, the nobody before him, looking at him with deadly eyes, was a Domain Stage warrior, and the surroundings that were changing were his domain.

There was no stopping the domain, for Klaus didn’t have one. His innate domains could not counter this, so all he could do was wait for it to fully manifest.

“They couldn’t kill me with their useless spears and immortal mountain, so they sent their lackey after me,” Klaus smirked. “Why am I not surprised?”

“Paragon, time for you to die,” the man spoke, pointing his spear at Klaus.

This time around, the person was a real living being instead of one made by tribulation lightning. This means there would be no tribulation runes but blood instead.

This time, it would be a real combat between Klaus and the Heaven’s Guardian.

Klaus smirked. “Aren’t you shameless? I mean, look at me. I’m not even at the Chaos Stage yet, and they sent a Domain Stage person after me. I mean, aren’t they already prepared for the awakening? Why go to such extreme lengths just to kill me?”

“That is not my problem, Paragon. I am here to kill you and take back all you took from the heavens. So pick up your weapon and let’s get this over with,” the Heaven’s Guardian said in a cold tone.

Klaus laughed and then stomped on the ground, manifesting a throne and a chair. Naturally, he sat on the throne and gestured for the Heaven’s Guardian to also sit.

However, like how one would expect, the Heaven’s Guardian didn’t flinch.

“Dude, I am merely following the rules,” Klaus smirked and waved his hand, forming an illusion of strings of words.

“Per the rules set by your employers, we can only fight if I am ready. Naturally, I am not ready, and the 2-hour wait is nowhere near.

Until I say I am ready, or the 2 hours, which started from the moment you appeared, are over, you won’t be able to attack me.

So we might as well have a nice little chat while we wait.”

If there is one thing more annoying than a Paragon, then it is a Paragon who knows the rules of the heavens and uses them against them.

The Heaven’s Guardian didn’t blink even after Klaus read the rules to him. Of course, Klaus merely smiled and decided to wait out for the time being.

[Brat, what are you doing?] the senior asked, confused at what Klaus was doing.

Naturally, he knew the moment the domain opened, Klaus was under attack. Provided he was inside the domain, it meant he was being attacked every passing second.

So he expected Klaus to go into combat the next moment. However, what he was seeing wasn’t what he expected, and that made him become utterly confused.

Klaus smiled and sent out a string of words to the senior.

“I once met an old man in my 7th incarnation. He said some words to me that I will never forget. He said, and I quote, ’Little one, when the storm is beyond you, just take a seat and wait it out.’”

Klaus laughed inside his soul sea. “So, senior, this bastard has what it takes to kill me, I can feel it. The heavens gave him something that can kill me or severely injure me. So since the storm is beyond me, I am merely waiting it out.”

The senior didn’t say anything because he couldn’t understand the rationale behind Klaus’s calm demeanor.

[Paragons are weird], he muttered, and Klaus, who heard him, smiled.

’I am not scared of dying. However, I cannot die today or remotely get hurt. This means I have to find a way to stop him, and it must be done in the most harmless way possible.’

Klaus closed one eye and looked at the Heaven’s Guardian with the other.

The Heaven’s Guardian is an alien that looks like an elf. However, Klaus had travelled a large portion of the universe before and met many aliens, so he knew this bastard was no elf.

He had two metal horns, long ears, crystal eyes, and fangs. Though he isn’t a vampire, those fangs are equally deadly.

Klaus continued to look at him for ten good minutes. Then he suddenly spoke.

“Let me say something. You have brown short hair, Long ears, metal horns, silver skin, and deadly fangs.” Klaus counted his fingers like someone trying to read one’s fate.

“Although it’s been a long time since the last time I met your kind, I am going to be taking a wild guess here and say you are from the Venom Fang Race.”

There was no change on Heaven’s Guardian’s face. He merely continued to stare at Klaus with the same cold gaze.

Klaus didn’t mind. He turned his head and continued to look at the Heaven’s Guardian.

“I am sure you are from the Venom Fang Race. I once had business with one of your ancestors several million years ago.” Klaus tapped the arm of the chair a few times, and then his eyes brightened.

“What was her name again… Oh, I remember. They called her Madam Poison Fang, but I called her Little Poison… do you happen to know her?”

This time, the cold look in the Heaven’s Guardian flickered for a moment and then returned to coldness. But Klaus, who saw this, smiled in his head.

’We are in business.’