The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

[Planet Orit - Star-Lord Victor’s POV]

”MONSTER”

Ornyx, the leader of the Voidbound Corsairs, spat red blood on the ground, his face and body littered with painful-looking injuries. Around him, thousands lay dead, some having silver hair, the majority having red hair.

The silver-haired warriors are, of course, the Stella Humans, whereas the red-haired ones are the Blood Humans. Of course, there are several others with different hair colours and body features, some even Beastkins.

But the noteworthy ones are the Blood Humans, the same race the Voidbound Corsairs came from, and of which most of their members are.

Now, they lay scared in the ground, some without heads. When Star Lord Victor said he was coming for blood, he meant every word.

Star-Lord Victor gave a cold smile, his sword buried deep in Ornyx’s chest. ”I have already warned you that if you dared lay hands on my daughter, I would kill you, but you didn’t listen. Now, you have yourself to blame.”

”Oh, cut your bullshit. You and I both know if the situation were to be reversed, you would have come after my son, too.” Ornyx coughed blood, but grinned, showing his blood-soaked teeth.

”It is a fragment of the Jade Ant Queen’s Nest that we are talking about here. Do you think the life of your daughter matters?”

Although there was a sword sticking in his chest, Ornyx didn’t seem too bothered. He had sustained countless injuries in the short battle he fought with Star-Lord Victor, a clear sign he wasn’t his opponent remotely.

However, he seemed perfectly fine, even running his mouth, further angering Victor.

”For touching my daughter, even if it were for the whole damn map of the Nest, I would still kill you today, just like I slaughtered everyone here.”

”What are you waiting for, then? Or do you think I am afraid of you?” Ornyx smirked, then slowly raised his left hand and placed his index finger at the center of his forehead.

”A sword through here will kill me. So don’t waste my time and just go on with it,” he paused, and then the grin on his face widened. ”At least you will be killing this body.”

Victor furrowed his brow, taken off guard by what Ornyx said. Seeing his expression, the insidious bald man smiled, feeling a sense of accomplishment.

”Oh, you think I would be stupid enough to bring my real body here for you to kill. Well, joke’s on you, Victor. I am not that gullible; however, it seems you are.”

”What do you mean?”

”Nothing too serious. It is just that I can’t help but wonder what you know about the Jade Ant Queen’s Nest. Do you even know the value of those map fragments? What people would do to get their hands on them.”

Victor’s frown deepened. Where Ornyx was going didn’t sit right with him. He could sense something bad coming, and as such, the thought to kill Ornyx passed through his mind.

However, in the end, he decided to listen.

”Hidden inside that Nest are five tokens to enter the Primordial Cave that would open 200 years from today. So you should understand why I had to send my people after your daughter.

She has a fragment that would have narrowed the path for us to obtain even just a single token.

However, since you killed my clone, thereby taking me to low-level Immortal Lord, and maybe even killing my son, I was also forced to activate all assassins in the Dervas Star System after her.

I even called the Blood Shadow Assassins. Soon, she will die, and there is nothing you can do about it.”

”BASTARD,” Victor screamed and stabbed his other sword through Ornyx’s forehead, killing him instantly.

A panicked look appeared on his face, this time genuine, unlike before when he was merely pretending. Suddenly, a call prompt came, and he answered.

”Darius.”

”Relax, Victor. Your daughter is safe. One of my hunters saved her and four of her guards, currently en route to Planet Teye.”

”No. Reroute them to Planet Baski.”

”Why?” Darius asked, surprised by what Victor said.

”Because the old bastard Ornyx placed a bounty on her head, and I think you and I both know there is no place in this universe that bastard can’t get people to do his bidding.

So send them to Planet Baski. My oldest daughter is closer to that place. She can meet them. I am on my way there too.”

Victor hung up and retrieved an SSS-class spaceship. Without any words, he jumped into it and was gone, leaving the warriors he brought stranded.

While it would take him two weeks to get where he was going, he wouldn’t give up just yet.

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[Inside Klaus’s Spaceship]

”So let me get this straight,” Klaus said, taking a deep breath before he continued. ”You will be joining the Milky Way Warrior Academy 100 years from today. However, because your planet is under constant attack, your father sent you away to this star system to have a quiet life.

However, instead of doing that, you went about exploring tombs and making waves on the Uniweb, resulting in the same people who had been after you to find you here.

But to make matters worse, you had to show off your wealth by buying a treasure chest in an online auction that you knew would expose you, and even did an unboxing video and posted it online.

In the end, here you are, inside the spaceship of the most awesome and drop-dead gorgeous Hunter in the universe.” Klaus flipped his hair back like the narcissist he is and added.

”I may not be the most knowledgeable person in the universe just yet, but I know I wouldn’t be that dumb.”

”Hey, watch your mouth.”

”Do you know who you are talking to here?”

The two female guards, Zosma and Estelle, said, their expressions filled with anger.

”Of course I know. She is the precious daughter of a Star-Lord who thinks that just anywhere, she can flaunt her daddy’s power. Now, here you are, cornered like canned beef.”

”What is canned beef?” one of the male guards, Erasmus, asked, genuinely seeking an answer.

Klaus just smirked and said nothing to him. However, he truly could not believe the audacity of Ophelia and her guards.

She was supposed to be lying low, away from the eyes of the enemies who sought to get back at her father by killing her or worse, kidnapping her to be used against her father.

However, like any dumb bitch who likes to raise her shoulders and use her father’s influence to get away with just anything, she couldn’t lie low. In the end, she lost five guards, and she nearly lost her life if not for Klaus’s timely intervention.

”This is just the dumbest shit I have ever heard in my entire life.” Klaus wasn’t angry, just shocked to see such a beautiful lady have little to no technical intelligence.

If she had followed her father’s instructions and stayed low, none of this would have happened. She could have even used a fake identity to buy that Treasure chest.

But what did she do? She went and did the opposite.

”What was so damn important that you had to sacrifice five guards for anyway?” Klaus asked, but before he could get any answer from Ophelia, his communicator rang.