The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

The flame arc landed on the flower, splitting it apart instantly and showering the forest with burning remains. It felt too easy, and Rhazor knew it was indeed too easy, so his suspicion rose.

The next second, the burning remains suddenly exploded into clouds of green spores.

Rhazor’s instincts screamed in warning. He recalled all too well that the main danger of these monster flowers is truly unleashed when their bodies explode.

Most of the time, they themselves explode their own bodies to spread their spores. However, this time, the sword arc had done all the work, unleashing the green spores upon him.

He instantly held his breath and covered himself with void energy.

However, despite his layered void shield, the moment the spores made contact with the void barrier, they began corroding it instantly.

”What the hell?”

Rhazor kicked off a nearby tree and shot backward at full speed, using the momentum to try to escape.

However, the moment he moved, the tree he had touched suddenly came alive.

Its bark split open, revealing dozens of crimson eyes hidden beneath the wood. The eyes looked eerie and somewhat bone-chilling. However, what followed was what made Rhazor narrow his eyes.

ROOOOAR!!!

The tree unleashed a horrifying sonic roar. At that exact moment, another flower monster, this one much bigger and uglier, loomed overhead, adding to the already eerie-eyed tree.

The roar was heard, but Rhazor knew a shockwave was building, and it would soon slam into him like a sonic attack.

’Icon, where are we on the route mapping?’

[Working on it, Master.]

’You might want to hurry, sweetheart. I am getting surrounded here, and it is not looking pretty.’

Rhazor gritted his teeth as the sonic roar slammed into him like a physical wave. The force behind it was powerful enough to put an Immortal Lord down for good.

BOOOOM!

The surrounding trees exploded apart as the soundwave spread through the forest. Rhazor crossed his arms in front of his face while coating his body with void energy, but even then, he was blasted backward through several trees.

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

He finally slammed into a massive trunk before forcing himself to stop. His bones squeaked and rattled from the deadly impact.

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

”Damn, I am getting my ass whooped,” Rhazor smirked.

His ears rang violently, and for a brief second, his vision blurred. He wasn’t at the point where he was hopeless yet. However, he also knew this forest could kill him, so he kept his focus on the vines and trees around him.

In here, everything was a danger to his life.

’It doesn’t matter how strong you are, there are some things that cannot be navigated easily,’ he said to himself and winced, his body still throbbing from the pain of the impact.

Before he could recover, the ground beneath him suddenly trembled.

His eyes widened.

Without hesitation, he vanished from his position using Void Shift.

BOOOOOOM!!!

A gigantic vine erupted from the ground exactly where he had been standing moments earlier. The impact alone created a crater hundreds of meters wide.

If he hadn’t moved, he would have already found himself severely injured.

But with the Void Shift, Rhazor reappeared high above the forest canopy, breathing heavily as his crimson eyes scanned the endless sea of greenery beneath him.

For a moment, his crimson hair billowed in the air, making him look like a vampire prince. But he had no time to focus on any of that.

Unfortunately, the moment he rose into the air, countless crimson eyes opened throughout the forest, taking away the serene view he would have admired.

One after another, several eerie eyes snap open.

Soon, thousands of them snapped open.

”...You’ve got to be kidding me. Is this forest a single entity or countless individuals?”

The unison felt eerie. There was no way separate individuals could have such cohesion. The only explanation, however, pointed to a single entity: the entire forest.

The forest was one dangerous monster, so no amount of vines he cut could save him from more coming from virtually every direction. The forest could spawn more vines.

This also meant that, if he had to, he would only need to kill one entity to secure his freedom if killing the forest was the endgame.

This, however, didn’t make Rhazor happy. While killing one is much better than killing thousands, he knew things were far from simple.

If the entire forest were a single entity, then it meant that no matter how many vines and flower monsters he killed, unless he could identify the main core of the forest and kill it, he would never be free.

’I am too young to be fighting a forest,’ Rhazor made up his mind. He had to run no matter what.

ROOOOAR!!!

The forest itself came alive.

Massive trees began twisting unnaturally as bark split apart, revealing mouths, eyes, and writhing vines hidden beneath the trunks. Every hideous nightmare he had ever had was coming alive as the forest revealed its deadly nature.

Flower monsters rose from every direction.

Some were as large as mountains.

Others floated in the air like giant jellyfish, releasing clouds of poisonous spores that corrupted even the surrounding space.

The pressure in the area skyrocketed instantly.

Rhazor’s expression finally turned serious.

”This forest is alive, and it wants to eat me.”

The moment those words left his mouth, danger screamed in his mind once more.

SHIIIIING!

A black vine suddenly pierced through space itself and appeared directly in front of his face.

Rhazor instinctively tilted his head.

The vine brushed past his cheek, leaving behind a burning cut.

Rhazor’s pupils contracted.

The next second, his body exploded into flames as dragon wings fashioned from fire burst out from his back.

’Nirvana, allow me to borrow your wings.’

The dragon tattoo on his left arm glowed, and a female voice entered his head.

’Okay, Daddy.’

Rhazor decided to activate the power of his Chaotic Nirvana Flame Spirit. With the wings now activated, his speed tripled. He wasted no time and immediately started flying, dodging one deadly stab after another.

A few minutes into his flight, Rhazor realized that flying over the forest was a bad idea, so he dove downward and started maneuvering through the thick forest, now filled with the pressure of demigod vines.

Suddenly, the sky darkened completely, as if night had arrived and no moon filled the heavens.

Rhazor slowly looked upward.

Above him hovered an enormous flower creature so massive that it blocked out the sky itself. Its petals stretched for kilometers, while countless rotating crimson eyes covered its body.

At the center of the flower was a gigantic mouth filled with spiraling teeth.

Drool mixed with venom poured from its jaws like waterfalls. The poison from the flower monster sizzled as it dripped down, burning and melting the very ground.

And standing atop the flower...

...was a humanoid figure made entirely of vines.

The figure slowly opened its glowing green eyes and stared directly at Rhazor.

”An Early God.” Rhazor sensed danger unlike anything he had expected. The appearance of the humanoid didn’t lighten the mood at all.

’Is it just me, or does this forest seem more overpowered than normal gods?’ Rhazor’s eyes narrowed further.

He expected Gods to be powerful, but he never expected one to possess this much presence. He felt that this vine-humanoid Early God was at least three times stronger than a normal One.

”Human, since you have come, then why don’t you stay?” Suddenly, the humanoid spoke.

’Oh, it can speak.’ Rhazor grinned and replied,

”Excuse me, vine person, you wouldn’t happen to know the way out of this forest, would you?”