The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

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Klaus was sent crashing through an immobile asteroid, blood spraying from his mouth as every bone in his body threatened to shatter.

Fortunately, his Heaven Defying Body is no joke. It is allowing him to endure more than he could in his former body.

”Fuck...” Klaus curses, spitting out blood.

Before he could stabilise himself, Blood Shadow arrived in front of him, her dagger going for his neck. Klaus willed himself and managed to move his head, letting the dagger graze his neck.

However, Blood Shadow’s knees smashed into his stomach, sending him flying back further. But like before, Klaus found himself staring at a dagger pointing at his left eye.

She is just too fast.

”Void Step.”

He harnessed the void, using it to move away. He appeared 30 km away in the opposite direction and quickly stabilised himself before Blood Shadow arrived again.

This time, Klaus struck with his scythe, letting their weapons meet. He wasn’t attacking her body, since she would just dodge, as if she were made of bones.

’Now.’

Just when the scythe was about to meet the dagger, Klaus used the momentum of his strike to curve his scythe, letting it strike the dagger at an angle that caused it to swerve up.

The moment Blood Shadow’s dagger swerved, Klaus pushed it with his scythe, causing her right hand to lift unexpectedly.

’Right foot.’

Klaus struck with his right foot, and Blood Shadow used her left hand to defend, only for Klaus’s left knee to move in a decisive strike.

BANG

It landed on her chin, sending her head flying back, a wince escaping her lips. But Klaus didn’t waste the effort. He let go of Bloodwork, and with his hand already in a striking posture, a large hammer appeared and enlarged, taking on the size of a bus.

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The hammer struck her, sending her flying back. She may be an Immortal Lord, but such a strike was strong enough to push her back.

The hammer vanished, and so did Klaus. He appeared 30 km away again, holding Bloodwork.

His lips were busted, his left eye blackened, his left hand broken, his right leg broken, and several ribs cracked and shattered. However, he held a calm look.

He wasn’t showing the pain.

He wasn’t about to look scared, especially when the battle hadn’t even lasted for five minutes yet.

At most, he had to wait for 30 minutes for reinforcement to arrive.

Klaus had already managed to stall for 3 minutes using his short story and a few dialogues as an excuse. However, it hadn’t been 5 minutes yet since the main battle started, and he had already become miserable.

Obviously, he was out of his league, and he knew that. However, he held Bloodwork tight, his gaze locked on Blood Shadow, watching to see if his hammer strike had broken anything.

When she stabilised, and Klaus saw her clean and refined look, his heart sank.

It took him a lot of effort and complex computation to come up with that combination that allowed him to land two blows. However, the outcome was plain as day... She looked incredible, showing his attack had done absolutely nothing to her.

Not even a bruise.

”An Immortal Lord is no joke after all.” Klaus tightened his hold on Bloodwork and charged forward, hoping to meet Blood Shadow in another fierce clash.

However, just when he was 1 kilometre from her, shadows stirred from her shadow and formed into deadly darts.

She slashed her dagger forward, and the darts moved with deadly speed.

Klaus knew he had no way to evade all of the darts. Even so, he summoned shields, stacking them to buy himself time to at least find another way out.

However, the moment the shadow darts landed on the shields, they phased through them and arrived before Klaus in an instant.

’Intangible Me.’ Klaus made his body intangible, causing all the darts to pass through him as well.

However, just when he returned to tangible, shadow ropes bound his legs and hands, and up ahead, Blood Shadow appeared with her dagger aimed at his heart.

There was no way to break free and defend against it. In fact, Klaus knew even if he managed to break free, the chance of him defending against that dagger stabbing at him was just too impossible.

He hated using the [Intangible Me] skill because, in his intangible form, he could not move. That was the only flaw, and it seemed it went against him this time.

Blood Shadow timed it, and so her next attack sequence caught Klaus in a bind.

With no way out, Klaus chose to tap into one of his trump cards.

”Space Law: Space Stretch”

Klaus harnessed the law of space in that instant, causing the very space between him and Blood Shadow to stretch.

She was 2 meters away from Klaus when the space law activated. The next second, she was 300 km away, her expression filled with shock.

However, Klaus wasn’t having any of that. Bloodwork moved from his hand, and using his mind control, he severed the shadow robes, freeing himself.

”Space Law: Folding Space.”

Klaus used one hand to form a seal, and in an instant, the space around Blood Shadow began to fold. She tried to move, but the space folded, sending her right back to where she was.

”Impossible...” she muttered, feeling her surroundings folding in on themselves. Klaus said nothing—something he rarely did—instead forming more hand seals, intensifying the folding.

However, the pale look on his face showed he was running out of Space Law essence.

Every law has an essence that is used to harness it. The higher one’s understanding of the law, the more essence they would have.

Obviously, with just high-level mastery, he was in no way qualified to even use space law against an Immortal Lord.

However, Klaus knew that with Blood Shadows Immortal Rings sealed, she wouldn’t be able to easily break free. This would allow him to at least buy some more time and even heal in the process.

What he didn’t expect, however, was to run out of essence before he could make the move he aimed for.

He never planned to use any of his Laws this early in the game. They were his trump cards in this unfair battle.

So far, he has the following law affinities: Elemental (High) ↠ Space (High) ↠ Time (High) ↠ Gravity (High) ↠ Death (High) ↠ Void (Super).

Using them this early in the battle was not the right move, and he knew that.

Klaus at least expected to be able to hold on for a few minutes before tapping into any of his Law affinities. But just five minutes into the battle, he was already forced to use it.

If he didn’t, death would come to him much faster.

So, he had to use the space law, which, in his calculation, was a waste, but a necessary step to save his skin and replan. Too bad his essence was running low, and he might just end up wasting precious essence.

Thankfully, just when he was losing hope, a familiar voice entered his head.

”Let me help you, Paragon,” the head of space in his nine-headed ancient hydra dragon living armour, Nyxora, spoke, pouring its reserve of Space Law Essence into Klaus’s.

This was the energy drop he needed to make his move.

”Space Law: Spatial Lock”

With one last hand seal, the space around Blood Shadow was locked down, rendering her incapable of moving to Klaus.

Knowing this, Klaus sat in a lotus posture and started healing his injuries. Eryndor, the head of life, was handling the healing while Klaus planned how to face the second part of the battle.

”I have at most 5 minutes.”