The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

Chapter 1698: Blood Hounds Ambush (4)

Kaden had unlocked a new kind of law combination, so he wished to test its limits, which, in a way, also aligned perfectly with Icon’s objective for him.

So he started rampaging, with three minutes still left before he could welcome the Pseudo-Primordial.

Meanwhile, summoning Anna turned out to be the best thing Aria had done.

Anna was the Ice Queen, perhaps one of the greatest—if not the greatest—Ice Mage alive. She had been brilliant in the past, and now that she no longer had any flaws, thanks to Icon fixing them all, her command over ice had entered an entirely new realm of coldness.

The Blood Hounds who went after Pickle Berry and Jane never reached their destination because she stood in their way, turning every one of them into ice statues before eventually reducing them to chunks of ice.

Naturally, she had ice at her fingertips, just as Kaden had lightning—well, everything else—at the tips of his fingers.

Anna was doing her best, steadily turning the tide against the Blood Hounds.

But just as the number of enemies started to dwindle, a wave of bloodthirsty pressure erupted from the north of their location.

Kaden paused and looked in that direction, a faint smile forming on his face.

“Indeed, an even better day.”

He extended his hand, and the Sky Breaker Bow materialized in his palm. Then he extended his other hand, and a three-meter-long arrow materialized as well.

But that wasn’t all. Kaden went even further, knowing the life or death of the approaching enemy depended on this single arrow.

“God of War Art.”

His body grew taller and more muscular. In no time, he stood four meters tall. With his increased size, his bow expanded, and the arrow extended to six meters in length.

He grew two more arms, making a total of four, and held the bow with one of the newly formed arms and the arrow in the other.

“I’ll probably regret this, but who cares?”

He placed the arrow on the bowstring, and at once, runes began appearing across its majestic six-meter length. The first runes to appear were lightning runes. They were, of course, the three forbidden water elements under his command.

They were Absolute water Elemental Runes.

He went further and channeled the runes of the seven Ice Elements. Then he channeled both Lightning Elements.

But once that was done, the arrowhead became coated with the four Absolute Runes of the four Primordial Flame Spirits.

[Isn’t this too much, Master?]

Kaden smirked at Icon’s words. “I don’t intend to tickle it, Icon. I intend to kill it, and what better way to achieve that than by harnessing the true power of my elements?”

[But sixteen elements, together with the four Primordial Flame Spirits, are just too much, Master. You should be ashamed of yourself.]

Kaden grinned before focusing his gaze due north, where he could see a powerful gust of wind racing toward them. He could even sense the Dao around him growing unstable.

Without a doubt, if the approaching Blood Hound reached the battlefield, he and his people would find themselves in grave danger.

He couldn’t allow that to happen.

So he acted, and the effect was immediate.

Runes lit up across the arrow, the frame of the bow, and all four of his arms.

Then his eyes narrowed, and waves of killing intent seeped out.

Two hundred thousand kilometers away, the Blood Hound sensed both the killing intent and the arrow. However, just as every Pseudo-Primordial would, it ignored the danger, believing that a mere demigod had no way of harming it.

Judging by its gigantic size, metallic skin, deadly claws, and overwhelming bloodlust, it believed that nobody below the Pseudo-Primordial Realm could injure it.

But it was gravely mistaken.

The moment it came within twenty thousand kilometers of Kaden, it sensed a new kind of killing intent that sent chills down its spine.

By then, however, it was already too late.

Kaden had already released the arrow.

The God-Killing Arrow tore through the air at a speed that surpassed all else. It took less than a second to appear before the Blood Hound.

The arrow was aimed at its broad chest, and the instant it arrived, the enchantments woven into the elemental runes activated.

It slammed into the Blood Hound’s chest, and despite possessing perhaps the toughest defense Kaden had encountered so far, the arrow cracked through it, embedding half of its six-meter length into its chest.

But even if only its tip had pierced the creature’s body, the outcome would have remained the same.

The runes had already been woven to gather at the tip of the arrow. The moment they entered the Blood Hound’s body, the battle was already over.

The first to erupt were the four Primordial Flame Spirits.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Kaden visibly saw the Blood Hound’s advance falter.

Then the seven Forbidden Ice Elements detonated, followed by the three Water Elements and finally the two Lightning Elements.

By the time the last of the forbidden elements exploded, the Blood Hound had already closed to within eight hundred meters of the battlefield.

To everyone else, it was still the fearsome Pseudo-Primordial Blood Hound.

But to Kaden…

It had already lost.

The only reason it had managed to get this close was that the speed at which it had been charging was simply too great.

The arrow had never been designed to stop it.

Every enchantment woven into it served a single purpose—to burrow deep into the creature’s body. None of them possessed any restraining effect that would slow the Blood Hound’s charge.

So the moment the arrow found its way inside, the chained explosions began while the Blood Hound’s momentum carried it forward.

In the end, when it was only 300 meters away, it came to a stop.

It remained standing on all four legs, staring at Kaden with menacing eyes for several long seconds.

Then its body tilted to the left.

BOOM!

Its colossal body slammed into the ground.

Just like that, a Pseudo-Primordial had been killed…

…with a single arrow.

Kaden smiled, though his expression had turned pale. The arm that held the bow and the one that had drawn the string were both broken, hanging limply by his side.

Even so, the smile on his face never faded.

More importantly, the moment the Pseudo-Primordial Blood Hound died, something else began to happen.