The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse - Chapter 514

Chapter 514: Heavens Curse

Klaus gazed at the image of the six disciples, his expression contemplative. Almost immediately, he discerned that the three others accompanying Hunter, Kate, and Sofia were innocent in this matter.

They would have been collateral damage if he had gone through with his intentions. The only mistake they made was choosing to ally with his enemies.

“I didn’t actually want to kill those three,” Klaus said, pointing at the trio as their images dissolved, leaving only Hunter, Kate, and Sofia.

“Now, can you tell me what you see? I will play the scene again.” Fruity waved his hand, and the video began playing once more. This time, Klaus focused intently on the three.

He was furious and determined to kill them all, with no intention of holding back. But then, he noticed something. It was like he was living the moment again.

“I never really wanted to kill all three of them. I just wanted to kill her,” Klaus said, pointing at Kate. At that moment, as he observed Kate’s image and his sword poised near her neck, he felt a strange energy compelling him to go for the kill.

It was as if something—or someone—was urging him to eliminate her.

“Why? Why do I feel this overwhelming need to kill her? While I do plan to kill them all eventually, I never intended to do it here at the academy,” Klaus said, his voice now laced with confusion. He needed to understand.

“You, my friend, have been cursed by the heavens,” Fruity said with a serious expression.

“Cursed?” Klaus raised an eyebrow.

“Indeed, you have been cursed by the heavens to kill someone known in the universe as Heaven’s Favorite. You see, the heavens have people they favor, and this ugly bitch is one of them,” Fruity cursed.

Klaus looked at him with an expression that said, ‘Bruh, you are a monk; using profanities in your sentences is a blow to your nature.’ However, he knew how Fruity felt at the moment.

Since Fruity was neither truly dead nor alive, he could express his emotions, and right now, he was very angry—albeit handling it well. Kinda.

“Tell me about this curse,” Klaus demanded.

“Of course. This curse is called Heaven’s Favorite. It’s a curse that makes the heavens influence you to kill people they consider their favorites. Had you succeeded in killing her, the heavens would have sent down divine punishment that would have resulted in one of two things: death or the crippling of your cultivation.

You see, the heavens will use the only thing you have against them ‘against’ you. Naturally, we all hate the heavens. We have no love for them.

So they will use this hatred to get back at you. In fact, you came this close to killing yourself due to this curse—had it not been for you being close to someone with the Paragon Mark.

You were lucky.”

Klaus didn’t immediately say anything. The question in his head was whether he wanted to kill Kate, and the answer was yes. He wanted her dead, but not as urgently as one might expect.

Naturally, the moment the legacies came after him, he planned to deal with them. In a way, he hated having people around who could backstab him in the future, so he wanted to end them all before they had the chance.

But now that he was hearing about this curse, he realized that perhaps his hatred had been amplified, which only fueled his anger even more.

Luckily, Fruity said something that caught his attention.

“You said I held back because someone with the Paragon Mark was closer to me. The only person with the mark is Lucy. I don’t understand. Care to explain?”

He had to know what he was hinting at.

“Of course. The heavens broke the rules, so I don’t mind saying anything to tilt the balance,” Fruity said, taking a sip of his tea.

“We are paragons, Klaus. We hate only one thing, and that is the heavens. We hate them and can never be friends with them. Our existences are fundamentally opposed to each other.

Even if we wanted to, we could never be friends with them. And they can never be friends with us. So our hatred is rooted deeply in our hearts.

But the heavens, sly as ever, knew our hatred could be used against us. Since our hearts are not guarded, they choose to use your hate against them by making things difficult for us.

A prime example is the incident you experienced a day ago.

They amplified your hate and turned it against you. However, your heart was guarded by three people. Their love for you managed to cancel out some of that hate. And with one of them closer to you at that time, you subconsciously managed to fight the hatred.

Thankfully, you were stopped before you could go too far. The heavens don’t care what methods they use; even if it means destroying an entire world, they will do everything in their power to kill you.”

“I see,” Klaus said, taking a sip of his drink. “So, are you telling me the Paragon Mark was what saved me?”

“Yes and no,” Fruity answered.

“Care to explain?”

“The Paragon Mark played a role in saving you. The saving grace was how much the ladies you have marked love you. Klaus, you have to understand that in our hearts, aside from the love of those we care about, everything else is hatred.

But it cannot be like that. It shouldn’t be like that. Yet it is. To balance it out, the First—our first incarnation—created the Paragon Mark.

Yes, the Paragon Mark helps you talk to your ladies, teleport to them, share skills, and other things, but its true purpose is to balance out the hate by using the love your women feel for you.”

Fruity paused for a moment. “What I’m saying is, to avoid being affected by this curse—which, I assure you, will be much more pronounced from now on—you need to use your Paragon Rod well.” Fruity grinned as he said that.

“Are you really a monk?” Klaus asked, looking at him strangely. A monk shouldn’t say those words. But then again, Fruity is a Renegade monk, someone who doesn’t walk the ways of a monk.

“I am a renegade. And what are you trying to insinuate? I’m a man, just like you, dude.” Fruity laughed and refilled his teacup.

“So without the Paragon Mark, I would succumb to this curse, huh?” Klaus said, relieved he’d made the right decision by making Lucy his woman.

He broke into a cold sweat, thinking about how close he had come to dying without something holding him back.

“Tell me there’s a fix for this. Tell me there’s a way I can kill these Heaven-Favorites,” Klaus demanded.

While he didn’t want to keep dodging this problem, he knew he had to find a way to strike back at the heavens. And what better way to do that than by killing these so-called Heaven-Favorites and getting away with it?

“The answer to your question is simple. You must add more ladies to your harem and become a Great Sage, which will unlock an aspect of us called Paragon’s Might. This aspect makes it so we can deal with whatever punishment the heavens throw at us.” Fruity said with a smile.

“Do you know killing Heaven-Favorites makes this Paragon Might grow stronger?”