The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Nadia forced out a smile, feeling that her posture was a bit strange. Her man would clearly become jealous if he saw her in a lady’s arms like that.

Nadia was also worried about her puppets, so instead of telling the red-eyed lady to pull her up, she turned to look, and that was when she saw two more unknown redheads fighting alongside her puppets.

“The one with horns is Lilian, and the other one is Zaila… I am Neomi.”

Neomi lifted Nadia up after making sure she was ready to stand. “Don’t push yourself too much…”

“Nadia.”

“Yes, don’t push yourself too much, Nadia. You want to celebrate with everyone when this is over, so keeping your life is the only way that can happen.”

After saying that, Neomi let go of her arms and pulled two short swords from thin air.

“Let my sisters and I take it from here.”

Nadia nodded, watching Neomi move, her speed blinding as she closed in on her first target, a Monarch.

On one side, Lilian waved her staff, and a wave of both fire and ice blasted out. On the other side, Zaila pressed her forehead, and a mind attack slammed into a three-Death Stage warrior’s head, allowing her to attack.

Her spear move pierced one of the three Death Stage warriors.

Nadia steadied herself, holding her bow tightly. Her breathing was heavy, but her eyes were sharp again. The leaf had done its work, and though her body still ached, she could stand.

However, watching monarchs contained by Neomi, Zaila, and Lilian, she turned to the last remaining Neburians, who were being held back by her Ascension Stage puppets…

’Maybe, just maybe this time, we will win.’

Nadia started firing arrows again, now using a part of her mind to also control the puppets she hadn’t put a demon spirit in yet.

***

[Ice Age Domain]

Perhaps the only reason the first wave of Monarchs didn’t overwhelm the Earth warriors was the decision Lucy and Anna made.

Just when the odds were mounting, when the Angels appeared with their full force, the two sisters, alongside Tess, Anna’s beast companion, took out 10 Monarchs, 25 Death, and 100 Life Stage warriors off the board.

Anna used her Ice Age Domain to trap them, and just like how Ohema used her poison, she was also counting on her ice to slowly eat away at the enemy.

However, unlike poison, resisting ice is relatively easy. Despite many getting trapped, Tess, Anna, and Lucy had to fight for their dear lives.

However, it wasn’t for nothing.

When Lucy was awakening her bloodline, she stole a Divine Knight from the heavens and sent him away to the Mother Tree to make him her knight.

Initially, the Mother Tree turned the Divine Knight into a Life Stage warrior; however, when the heavens started breaking the rules, the Mother Tree also broke them, knowing she would be helping her daughter fight for her man.

Using the souls of the dead, she upgraded him to a Peak Monarch who could fight Nirvana Stage warriors on equal footing. It took some time, but just when they were about to be overwhelmed, the Divine Knight arrived and saved them.

However, Anna was injured, and not even the Sylvan healers they brought with them could help her…

“Anna, Mother Tree said you should stay in here… She will find a way to save you when all this is over,” Lucy said, her worried expression saying everything.

“But—”

“No buts. You stay here, Tess, and I will go help the others.” Anna wanted to protest, but her sister didn’t allow her.

“Just don’t tell Klaus yet,” Anna said, and Lucy nodded…

After a few more minutes, once she was sure she was comfortable, Lucy left with Tess.

Anna sighed, half her body frozen from core overloading. She went too far with her attacks, causing her Ice Core to overload.

If it hadn’t been for Lucy intervening at the right time, things would have ended much worse for her.

“This is too boring. I should be out there fighting.” Anna sighed again, then closed her eyes to clear her mind.

Meanwhile, on the outside, Lucy unleashed her knight. Tess also went to help Asha, while Lucy decided to become a healer. With her vines, she could reach her targets much faster.

In no time, the battle took shape, and the chaos slowly began to get under control.

The only chaotic battle now was between Klaus and the six Nirvana Stage warriors.

Of course, there was the one between Chaos and the Monarchs. However, with the five dragons also done killing the Nirvana Stage warriors they took on, they were helping him.

—

[Beta Earth]

Back on Beta Earth, where Klaus was keeping the netizens safe, every last person was glued to their screens watching the battles with bated breath.

From the start of the battle to this point, blinking was even prohibited. They were all rooted to their screens, praying in their hearts for the warriors of their world to come back to them safely.

From when the first portal opened to the point when dozens opened, all they could wish for was for their warriors to gain supernatural strength to fight them.

However, as mothers saw their children dying, sons and daughters watching their parents dying for the sake of saving their world, the seed of hatred toward the heavens started to take root in their hearts.

While the heavens didn’t know it, because of their cruelty today, in years to come, the hatred that will one day act as the final ingredient to bring them down will bloom, and when that day comes, they will cry tears of blood.

—

[Somewhere in the universe]

While Earth clashed with warriors of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, uncertain of their victory, a coalition of gods sat inside a mansion, most of them pale from overexerting their divinity.

At the moment, they all seemed to be at a crossroads.

Their mission was to ensure the world awakening happening at the moment ended in favor of the heavens. They were to use any means necessary to accomplish that.

When people hear of the heavens, they think it is just the heavenly laws.

Of course, in most cases, it is the impartial heavenly laws that make up the heavens. However, once they are taken over by a higher existence, the heavens become people.

Someone influences them. In this instance, the heavens had deployed a ragtag group of gods to mess with Earth’s awakening.

However, the crossroads they encountered took the form of another god suddenly appearing on Earth.

“What should we do?” one of the gods asked. He was not pale, meaning he had not yet done anything, anything.

“What else can we do? I can sense she is not bound by the heavenly laws, meaning if we are not Domain Gods, she can easily kill us,” a different god replied, his expression pale.

“None of us anticipated any of this. We tried our best, and well, it was all for nothing. The Paragon has prepared well, so we might as well stop here while we still have our divinity intact.

Maybe if we try hard enough next time, we can accomplish what we started today,” a goddess said, keeping a neutral expression.

Many seconded what she said. They didn’t sign up to be crippled for good.