The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Chapter 1019: The Endless Sword Dream

Klaus gritted his teeth, unsure of how to think about any of this.

”Just what kind of cultivation base is she to be able to see into the future and predict what would happen?” Klaus muttered, looking at the first sentence in the book.

He wanted to curse at Lady Eleven. However, recalling the feeling he sensed from her when he first laid eyes on her, his heart melted, and so he huffed and puffed and chose to read it.

”Let me guess, you passed out. It is only normal considering you are standing in the presence of greatness. Before I begin, please note that everything you are about to read is based on hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt.

That said, the reason why I said you are standing in the presence of greatness is that the item in the box is something that came from legend.

It was said that before the apocalypse, before humans started evolving and gaining powerful abilities, there was nothing like the heavens.

Back then, there were those they called the Endless.

I’m not sure how extensive your knowledge is, but the Endless were the supreme existence back then, with the most prominent ones we know of being Dream and Death.

They existed far beyond man’s understanding back then, and to this day, man cannot wrap their minds around their existence. However, years later, after the apocalypse came and humanity began to transcend, a secret was revealed, one hidden within the dream of the Endless Sword.

Many speculated that this dream holds the secret to understanding where the apocalypse originated. Some say it contains the secret of the Endless and the meaning of their existence.

The last ridiculous notion was that this dream contains the origin of the Paragon. I don’t know whether any of this is true or not, but I know for a fact that whatever is contained in this dream is something the entire universe went to war for.

As to whether it will answer an important question, I’m unsure. However, I chose to leave it in the first level for one of two reasons.

The first reason is related to your cultivation base after you break through to the next stage. I have calculated that a great catastrophe will befall you, and the only way out is this item.

The second is to draw your attention to the fact that beyond the heavens, there might be some beings so powerful even a Paragon cannot hold a candle against them.”

Klaus flipped to the next page and continued to read, ”You can choose to pry the secret hidden within this item. However, before you try it, you must first cultivate the mind technique I left on the 4th floor to the third stage.

Also, there is a soul technique on the subsequent floor. That too must be cultivated to the third level. Only then should you even consider prying into the secrets hidden within this item.”

Klaus closed the book and focused his gaze on the item on the table. It looked like a stone, yet Klaus could see a shape to it that said otherwise.

The strange part is, he could not tell the shape.

He focused more closely on it, and despite the haziness that kept blocking his sight, he slowly started to see past the haziness. Slowly, he managed to look at the item, or more like he saw a runic inscription.

”Dream Heart,” Klaus muttered, speaking the translation of the runic inscription.

The moment those words came out of his lips, Klaus felt hazy yet again, and then he fell back and passed out yet again.

However, this time, instead of sleeping for four hours, Klaus appeared in a strange place. All around him, he saw nothing but red sand.

It was as if the entire space was composed of only pure red sand.

However, as Klaus stood there, he could feel some form of call coming from all around him. It was like something was calling to him from all directions.

It felt strange. However, for who knows how long, he stayed there, unable to spot the right direction the call was coming from.

After a three-hour sleep, Klaus woke up.

”Where is the item?” he wondered now, looking at an empty table. He looked around the room, but he found nothing.

Klaus sighed and then stood up. He wouldn’t be finding the item anytime soon, so he decided to go to the third floor. He didn’t know why the item vanished or where it went, but he had a nagging feeling that even if he were to spend the whole day looking, he wouldn’t find it.

On the third floor, Klaus found an ordinary-looking sword that, according to Lady Eleven, was a soul-type weapon with a powerful sword spirit sealed in.

Klaus didn’t think too much about it and signed a contract. He already had powerful swords inside his soul sea, so adding one more to it wasn’t a big deal.

On the 4th floor, he found a Mind Technique called Mind Pagoda. Klaus didn’t know how, but this technique felt familiar. He learned it, and he knew it would take a while to even cultivate the first level.

But from what Lady Eleven said, just the first level was enough for him to have the mental strength of an Immortal. Naturally, Klaus couldn’t wait to see that outcome.

On the 5th floor, he found the Soul Pagoda, causing Klaus to wonder whether the Mind Pagoda and the Soul Pagoda were created by the same person.

With nothing left to do but learn the technique, Klaus did, and then he moved to the 6th floor. He found a demonic dagger technique called Grim Life Dagger Art.

For every life he claimed using the dagger, their lifeforce would be siphoned by the dagger and used to strengthen itself to the point that if his mastery was good enough, he could even form a resentful dagger spirit.

Naturally, the more he killed, the stronger his dagger became. In hindsight, he might even be able to create a god-killing dagger one of these days.

The seventh floor had a spinning disc similar to his Demon Killing Disc. However, unlike the Demon Killing Discs, this one split into a hundred thousand fingernail-sized discs that could shred through armies.

The 8th floor had a shard of some metal so heavy that Klaus was only able to lift it three inches off the table it was placed on.

”This metal is even heavier than the moon. Just what is it made of?” Klaus muttered, looking at the shard of pointed metal.

He surrounded it with his energy to see if he could use his mind to lift it. However, it only moved four inches off the table before falling back down, causing the pagoda to shudder.

”Let me put it away first.” Klaus placed his palm on it, and it vanished into his soul sea.

”If I can control this metal, then even the Monarch Stage warriors would have to run when they see me,” Klaus laughed, and then he moved to the 9th floor.

”What the heck...” Klaus’s face immediately turned pale when he appeared on the 9th floor.