The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Breaking the minds of the 40 scouts from the Nethran race has proven very difficult.

Obviously, they aren’t scouts for no reason. As warriors trained to go behind enemy lines and gather intel, they had been groomed to become unbreakable, even in the face of the most painful torture.

And so the 40 scouts didn’t break easily. In fact, it took them three good weeks, even with Asmodeus joining them.

But eventually, they managed to break all 40 of them, and Yuying charmed them.

“Finally,” Danny sighed, feeling accomplished. He had broken countless bones over the past three weeks he had spent torturing the 40 scouts.

Whenever a bone is broken, the Sylvan Healers would heal it, and then he would break it again. He and his pals had been at it for days, enjoying every last moment of it.

“Now we must know what they know and how best to prepare,” Yuying said before she began her interrogation.

“Start by telling me something small about yourself.”

Their main target was General Thorn, who was a Peak Nirvana-stage warrior. They knew he had been in charge of the scout mission, so Yuying picked him for questioning.

“I am General Thorn, the one selected to lead the scouting mission by High Warden Ardent Solivar. I am a Level 9 Nirvana-stage warrior. I have no kids and no lovers. My mission is to serve the Nethran race, serve my King.”

“Poor guy, he has lived for a long time, yet he wasn’t even laid,” Asmodeus said with a grin.

Yuying and the others said nothing, knowing that sometimes people just project their own feelings on others. Asmodeus had lived for thousands of years, yet he had not fallen in love once.

Of course, he could argue and say he was an Undead, someone who had long lived and died. However, there was the case where his past self had had the chance to live, yet he remained single…

Yuying ignored the hateful Undead Necromancer and focused on the most important task…

“Your mission was to spy on us, right? How about you tell me what you were required to find?”

There was no resistance in his voice.

General Thorn was no longer in control of his own faculties, so he spoke like a parrot: “King Ardent wanted us to find out what kind of people you are, your strength, battle plans, and, if possible, infiltrate your ranks.

“Three of the Monarchs I came with are shapeshifters, so infiltrating your ranks would have been simple. However, aside from that, we were also to set up a teleportation gate on a planet nearest to this world.

“This was to allow some of our engineers to come through and set up six C-class weapons, three B-class weapons, and a Class A weapon.

“It is either we kill every living soul by blowing up the planet, or you surrender and hand over the one who killed Princess Soldeir.”

Everyone felt a chill run down their backs when they heard the plans the Nethrans had for them.

Facing them in martial combat was something they could manage. They had already faced harrowing dangers and persevered, so they were ready for that.

But using weapons far beyond what a person could handle was already a headache they couldn’t bring themselves to handle.

C-class weapons were comparable to a full attack from a Peak Nirvana-stage warrior. B-class weapons were already close to what an Empyrean could do.

An Empyrean-stage warrior is someone at the Peak of Phase III. They are beings just a step away from becoming immortals. If an Empyrean were to appear during the awakening, Earth would have fallen.

In fact, even if a dozen more Nirvana-stage warriors appeared, things would have been different. So, three weapons that could unleash an attack from such a warrior were not something to be taken lightly.

However, that was not the worst part.

There was also an A-class weapon, one that would, without a doubt, vaporise the Earth completely.

Such a weapon was akin to a full-on attack from a Real Immortal. There was nothing any of them could do to defend against such an attack. There was no way they could survive that.

Obviously, the enemy is planning to kill them all, including the planet, if they prove to be stubborn.

Yuying sucked in a cold breath and then asked, “How long would it take you to set up the teleportation, and how fast would the engineers be able to get here once it is done?”

“Just a week. We can build the teleportation gate in a week, and it will take another week for the engineers to make it through.”

“And how strong would these engineers be?”

“They are not warriors, so the strongest of them is only at the Void stage. However, two Nirvana-stage warriors will come with them as guards.”

Yuying nodded, and then she asked a follow-up question, “And how strong is the Nethran Army? I want specific numbers.”

General Thorn relaxed his mind to focus so he could give an accurate account of the strength of the Nethran Army.

“We have seven million warriors; however, for this mission, we are only bringing five million—a million in each ship.

However, the five million warriors coming are our finest. Each ship has 20 Nirvana-stage warriors, 2,000 Monarchs, 20,000 Death-stage warriors, 200,000 Life-stage warriors, and the rest are Domain stages and below.

The weakest we have in our army is an Ascendant, but even they are few in number.

However, King Ardent and two others are at the Core Formation stage. Also, we have a combat robot that can match the strength of a Peak Core Formation stage. However, it takes time to get to full strength.”

“How long are we talking?”

“Three hours. But it starts fighting with the strength of a Peak Monarch.”

“I see. Something else we should know?” Yuying asked, and General Thorn nodded…

“We have discovered three planets that contain Luminous Crystals.”

Yuying raised her brow, and then a smile appeared on her face. “I suppose there is something to be happy about after all.”

She turned and looked at Queenie, who was quiet and planning. “What do you think?”

“Looks like we will be making the explosion much bigger. However, to do that, we have to ensure the enemy lands their ships and comes out of them.

The explosion should kill at least 70% of them, and making them come out is the only way that can be achieved.”

Queenie looked at General Thorn and asked a very important question, “How well does your king trust you?”

“He trusts me enough to give me such an important mission.”

“I see. In that case, how do you feel about dying for a good cause?”

General Thorn looked at Yuying, then turned to Queenie. “I am a warrior; my life is to live and die fighting for my race…So I have no problem dying for a good cause.”

Queenie smiled, knowing Yuying’s charm was solid.

As days passed, she kept remembering more of her past life as the Asura Queen. The more she recalled, the more powerful and resourceful she became.

Now, she knew what had to be done, and as a child of war, she knew how much they needed to sacrifice to win.

“Good enough for me.” Queenie smiled, and then she looked at Yuying.

“We have a teleportation gate to build.”