The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

“What do you want from us?” a domain-stage Kathorian warrior trapped inside Shen’s pocket world asked, staring as Klaus turned into an Elf and began drawing runes in the air.

“Very simple. I am going to create an array called ‘Against the Heavens’ and use you lot as the power source. Once I am done, I will then give each of you my blood, which will turn you from the light and bring you to the darkness.”

Klaus laughed, focusing on drawing more symbols.

The 1,500 domain-stage warriors he had kidnapped could only watch him work with frowns and angry expressions.

They just couldn’t understand how they had landed themselves in this situation. However, they were now in it, and as they watched the one responsible, they couldn’t help but wish a thunderbolt would just fall from the heavens and strike him.

If only they knew the heavens were also seething in extreme anger at that moment.

They never saw Shen coming. In fact, they never expected the Cauldron to awaken its innate item spirit this early. But it did, and now, they may have just cost themselves 6,000 domain-stage warriors.

Shen had already taken 1,500; soon, he would take the rest, and with what Klaus was planning, the heavens were going to have a bad day.

After five minutes of drawing symbols, Klaus put them all together and formed a large array. He lifted his head and stared at the heavens as if mocking them.

Then he waved his hand, putting all 1,500 domain-stage warriors to sleep.

Klaus formed a hand seal, and 1,500 drops of blood appeared.

They flew and landed on their foreheads.

They dissolved, and in their place, a star tattoo appeared.

Klaus hovered in the air, watching as his blood did its work. Ten minutes later, the first domain-stage warrior woke up, feeling a slight headache.

“Sorry, buddy, but as you know, we are at war, so there is no time to be gentle. That said, you are now on my side, and after this war is over, I will give you a new name. But before that, get dressed; we have a war waiting for us to win.”

Klaus waved his hand, sending armor to the awakened Kathorian. He caught the armor and examined it. Afterward, he looked in Klaus’s direction and nodded.

[Congratulations, Master. I never expected you to have so much foresight, even foreseeing this moment and creating more than enough armor and weapons for them.]

“No need to be surprised, my dear Icon. I am just too awesome.”

[Master is indeed the best.]

Klaus smiled, feeling happy.

Of course, the armor he created wasn’t for these people. This armor was part of his plan to select 10,000 suicide warriors should the need arise.

The armor was packed with so many explosive arrays that, if he wanted, he could detonate it and kill hundreds with it.

It had to be worn by a living person. However, he said nothing to anyone, so nobody knew he had such a trump card. But now, he didn’t even have to use it anymore…

Having 6,000 domain-stage warriors to whom he had just given his blood on his team was more than enough. Klaus had a plan in place, and soon he would implement it.

However, first, he wanted to see just what the heavens would do after he sent out this first batch.

Soon, more of them woke up, and he made them change into new armor.

Although his people would recognize them and not attack them simply because they had his blood, Klaus wanted them to look unique. So, he let them change into silver armor, the kind that would make them stand out on the battlefield.

After the last of them was done, Shen released them, causing the heavens to turn dark instantly. However, Klaus merely smirked and gave an order.

Shen was already gone, kidnapping more domain-stage warriors.

“For now, you are the Silver Legion. Your mission is to kill Nether-stage and below warriors from the other side. Don’t touch the domain-stage warriors yet.”

“Okay, master.”

“Great. Now, go and make me proud.”

They teleported away, and the next second, the Neburians, Kathorians, and Mercenaries started dying like flies.

“How did you do it?” Aloy asked again, intrigued by how Klaus managed to turn 1,500 domain-stage warriors to his side in less than 20 minutes.

“It is a secret that I will only reveal if you manage to kill ten Life stage warriors and a Death stage warrior during this awakening.”

“Wait, there are Death stage warriors coming?” Aloy asked, his expression turning dark.

“Of course. Or do you think the heavens will let me off that easily?” Klaus smirked, thinking about what he had learned from the 1,500 warriors he converted to his side.

“Be ready, everyone. The real battle is about to start.”

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“My Lord, we have a problem,” one of the masked figures standing behind King Archon said, his tone dark.

“What is it?” King Archon asked.

“It is the other side. They have enslaved 1,200 of our domain-stage warriors. They are now massacring our forces.”

“WHAT?” King Archon’s expression turned dark.

“Who dares do that?” he asked.

“It is that Chaos stage human. He did it with the help of a strange-looking cauldron.”

“This is bad.” King Archon turned to his left and stared at the Elyrion moon, where the mercenaries were waiting to be deployed.

“SEND THEM. SEND EVERYBODY!”

His command was supreme. At once, the remaining Neburians, who still numbered in the millions, started moving again.

However, they weren’t the only ones moving.

The Vareenites, mostly made up of assassins and soul warriors, also moved with them.

The Elyrians also advanced, and in their ranks were swordsmen and spearmen. Only a few had staffs in their hands, showing they were mages.

But that wasn’t all. Seeing the main forces advancing, the 2,000 mercenaries left on the Vereen moon also advanced.

Lastly, from the moon of Elyrion, over 700,000 mercenaries started moving toward the crack.

KILL THEM ALL!

The shouts of the enemy could be heard on Earth, causing the warriors fighting to pause and look at the darkness advancing toward them.

PREPARE FOR BATTLE!

Klaus gave an order, and every last warrior on Earth retrieved their weapons.

“ANDROID UNIT, ADVANCE TO THE EAST!”

Every last android built by Anaki and her brother, Inaki, advanced and took their side of the battlefield.

“VAMPIRE LEGION, TO THE WEST!”

Tifa and her sister led the vampires to prepare for battle.

“CALVARY OF DEFIANCE, ALSO TO THE WEST!”

Danny pulled his team to go aid the vampires.

“GREAT AND LEGACY LEGION, ADVANCE TO THE SOUTH!”

Sword King Hiroshi, Dave Arcadia, and Lord Ross led the various army units of the Great Families and Legacy Families to the south.

“UNCLE MONK, TAKE THE REMAINING EARTH ALLIANCE LEGION AND THE ACADEMY FORCES AND ADVANCE FORWARD!”

Old Lu obeyed without question. When they moved, Klaus turned to Asha. “The North is yours. Asmodeus will come around, but for now, do your best to hold them back.”

Asha nodded and left to handle her assignment.

Klaus looked at Nadia, who gave him a small nod, telling him she understood her assignment.

“Good luck,” Nadia said and left, heading in the direction the Vareenites were coming from.

“So it is time, huh…”

Nyxthar, Veylor, Alesi, Yaw, Hans, Skar, Eryx, and Eren appeared.

Klaus looked at the crack and nodded. “They are here.”

Up ahead, the first Life stage warrior wielding a spear arrived on the battlefield, and Nyxthar moved to intercept her.