The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Chapter 946: Ascendent Tribulation

”Queenie, dear, take everyone away from here now.”

Klaus’s voice entered Queenie’s ears, prompting her to take immediate action.

”Everyone, we should move away from here. Klaus is about to have his tribulation.” The order was clear and immediate, forcing everyone to abandon the resort and move far away.

”Why are we moving back 10 miles? It is just a tribulation,” Princess Eshira said, staring at the resort in the distance.

”You will see in a few minutes,” Lunara replied, staring in Klaus’s direction.

Because they are cultivators, their sight is enhanced, allowing them to see Klaus hovering in the air as if he were standing right in front of them.

Princess Eshira and her mother looked puzzled, unsure why they had been made to move back so far.

Even some of Klaus’s women were also puzzled.

However, to someone like Ohema and Lunara, who had witnessed what it felt like for Klaus to have his tribulation, they knew moving back 10 miles was for the best.

Of course, in Lunara’s case, the one she witnessed back on Mars was Klaus’s karma, manifested in the tribulation that resulted from breaking through three times without a tribulation in the dungeon.

He paid for his unruliness back then, so since nothing major happened after that, this might be an easy one.

But no giveaways, so moving back was a mere precaution at this point.

Klaus continued to hover in the air for five minutes before the tribulation started.

From the get-go, thousands of beasts descended, each radiating powerful energies. The weakest was at the Sovereign stage, and the strongest had already reached the Void stage.

Even so, Klaus merely remained still in the air while his spirit weapons moved, cutting and piercing the monsters at a speed that couldn’t be seen easily.

The more he killed, the more tribulation runes entered his body.

”Looks like they don’t have much excuse to make my life difficult this time.”

In under 20 minutes, Klaus moved from level 1 to 4, but compared to the last time, this one was much easier. It was as if the heavens were giving him the tribulation for his level instead of inflating it as before.

Of course, compared to others becoming Ascendants, Klaus’s tribulation was much more chaotic and perhaps overly dangerous than they could handle.

But Klaus saw it to be simple.

When level five came, it was a Chaos-stage wingless dragon, colossal and deadly. From Klaus’s observation, the dragon was merely at the beginner stage, perhaps at the level 2 Chaos-stage dragon.

The battle was quick and precise, considering Klaus merely used his spirit weapons to cut it into pieces, giving him all the runes he could take from it.

”I now understand why we moved back.” Princess Eshira looked at the now-flattened resort and sighed. The place was supposed to be one of the best places on earth, but it was now reduced to nothing.

Of course, Ohema had already called her company, and they would handle the rebuilding and compensation in the next couple of hours.

Even so, they all understood that the tribulation Klaus was going through was much more dangerous than he made it look.

Ohema and Lunara sighed in their hearts when, even after the 6th stage of the tribulation, nothing that could threaten Klaus came.

They were happy and thankful. However, they also knew that when it comes to Klaus, nothing is as simple as it seems.

He cleared the stages rather quickly before the 9th came, where he entered the Tribulation realm again, and this time, instead of the Tribulation pool waiting for him, he was greeted by the sight of tribulation crystals.

This time, too, Klaus made the heavens bleed since almost all tribulation crystals were taken by him using the cauldron.

Once his time was up, the tribulation ended.

He returned to the ground and was cocooned again.

The ladies moved closer, but maintained a 1 km radius, just in case something dangerous happened that required them to move back further.

”To think he ended an Ascendant-stage tribulation within an hour, what a monster,” Queen Nayiri commented, looking at the cocoon housing Klaus.

”He is Klaus. Nothing is normal about him,” Lucy replied with a proud smile on her face. The ladies held the same looks, clearly proud of their man.

”So are you all like his women?” Princess Eshira asked.

”Why, are you looking for content for your gossip channel?” Lily asked, causing the princess to blush.

”Of course not. I am just curious.”

Queen Nayiri raised her brow when she heard Lily’s question to her daughter.

Although the Bast race is advanced and can possibly spy on the rest of the Earth using their technology, they preferred not to, and so they sent their princess, whose class allows her to blend in.

Thanks to her, they know more about the Earth, but she never once asked about the methods she uses, so this was a good time for her to ask some questions.

”Before you answer her, can any of you tell me what she does on a daily basis?” she asked, and the ladies turned and looked at Princess Eshira, who covered her face with her hand.

Asha smiled and answered, ”Your daughter is perhaps the most talented gossip in the entire world. Can you believe she owns a gossip channel where almost anything happening on this Earth, in one way or another, finds its way to her?

Though now thinking about it, she is perhaps the most brilliant spy on the planet. Instead of sneaking around looking for information, she created the platform and let the information come to her.”

The queen looked at her daughter, and a weak smile appeared on their faces.

”I guess she is indeed brilliant. In that case, you can continue your discussions.”

More questions were asked, and the ladies who wanted to know more about the Bast race made sure they asked all the right questions.

It turns out that a long time ago, the Bast race were normal humans, living in a remote part of Africa. They weren’t extraordinary, nor did they have any higher calling.

However, an asteroid that destroyed a part of their land also gave them their future. According to them, when the asteroid fell, the Panther goddess, Bast, came to them and bestowed her sacred power upon them, with a grand duty to protect the Earth.

This gave them not only strength but also the ability to create and build, allowing them to advance rapidly compared to Earth. They built advanced weapons and created the most powerful cars, jets, and other technologies.

Naturally, they built what Earth and its governments would kill for.

So, in order not to contribute to the growing chaos on Earth, they chose to hide away and let the timeline unfold as it was meant to.

Their duty was to protect Earth from external threats, not internal ones.

They stayed in their hidden dimension, protected the Earth from threats beyond its capabilities, and for years, they had remained unseen.

However, now the Earth is threatened, and while they would love to avoid involving humans, this time they can no longer remain hidden, so they have come to them.

They want to make their presence known and perhaps have a chance to experience what it feels like to finally come out in the open.

Klaus remained in his cocooned state for 2 days. When the cocoon shattered, a different kind of monster was born.