The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse - Chapter 555

Chapter 555: Core Evolution (1)

“Damn, that was a lot of changes,” Klaus muttered, looking at the transformations that had occurred in his soul sea—or, more specifically, his cores.

After absorbing the tons tribulation runes, seven out of the nine cores were now fully formed, which meant he was comparable to seven Great Sages and two Sages in one body.

Having nine cores was truly something to be happy and proud of.

The cores had expanded, with the great cores stretching a whopping 400 kilometres wide. This demonstrated just how powerful he had become. Someone with cores this large should be a Sovereign or even a Transcendent.

A Sage who, in a way, was now a seven-part Great Sage had no business possessing seven massive cores like these. Moreover, just one core is now filled with loads of Star qi from which he can channel.

And he would be channelling energy from nine cores. That alone is unbelievable.

He only needed his body to grow to the stage where it could handle the immense energy whenever he began channelling it into his attacks.

“They have changed somehow.”

Klaus appeared outside all nine cores, resembling a god gazing down at nine stars.

Each core had rings around it, but seven had somehow evolved, making them appear distinctly different. They now resembled worlds more than stars. However, Klaus could sense there was more to them than what he could see at a glance.

He quickly entered the first core, and lo and behold, it was as he expected—it had indeed evolved. The new evolution allowed Klaus to grasp the true nature of the cores immediately.

The first core, now housing one of the opened doors, revealed countless soul weapons suspended in the air. The entire core glowed red. The space exuded an aura that was both ominous and foreboding.

The atmosphere, the presence, and the overwhelming sensation made it clear: this was a space of slaughter, death, and destruction.

All the soul weapons in his possession were suspended in the space. Without a doubt, this was the space of slaughter—his current incarnation.

The weapons symbolized his status as a weapons overlord, and the aura reflected his nature as the Slaughter Overlord.

Somehow, his slaughter aura had influenced the essence of the first core, making it his first core. This suggested that the doors were, in some way, connected to reincarnation.

This explanation seemed all the more plausible when he stepped into the second core, finding himself in a world of lightning and thunder.

He had already met Knox, his second incarnation, and saw who he had been back in that incarnation. It all made sense—the lightning and thunder aligned with Knox’s nature as an archer with a lightning affinity.

The place was a realm of storms and lightning, and Klaus felt an immediate, intimate connection to it. He knew instinctively it was tied to his own lightning affinity.

“Does this mean the doors are based on the sequence of reincarnation?” Klaus wondered.

“But that doesn’t make any sense. If I am the ninth incarnation, then shouldn’t the ninth door be here instead of the first?” He began pondering.

The sequence he had just seen suggested that the cores were based on the order of his reincarnations. This meant the first core corresponded to the first incarnation.

But that shouldn’t be possible, as the first incarnation was his original self. If that made sense, the second was Knox, the archer.

So, if he was the ninth incarnation, shouldn’t he have the ninth door in the first core?

“This could only mean one thing… the cores are assigned based on the nature of the incarnations, not the order of the first incarnation.” In a way, he had swapped places with the first incarnation, which meant, in a sense, nothing made sense.

The second core now also had a large Seal of Lightning inside. He could tell it was a forbidden item within his soul sea.

Aside from the core, the Lightning Source Diagram was also suspended. Lightning danced around it, along with something else he couldn’t understand or identify yet.

The senior would answer that once their connection was restored.

“I’ll just go with the flow, then,” Klaus smirked and stepped into the third core.

As expected, it was one filled with the aura of blood. It was no exaggeration to say it was the core of the Asura God, his third incarnation.

If he were to see inside Queenie’s soul sea, he would have realized that perhaps all Asura-borns share the same type of soul space.

It was vast and reeked of blood. Suspended in the air was the Seal of Slaughter, which once again contradicted the sequence he was trying to piece together.

“Maybe they’re just random cores that align with certain aspects of me. I don’t have to look too deeply into it. I can just accept it like how they are meant to be.”

The sequence was already abnormal to begin with.

The Seal of Slaughter hung within the soul space, radiating a potent aura that reeked of danger. Yet Klaus felt entirely at home, making him realize that his Nine Reincarnation Divine Body Physique wasn’t just for show.

He then moved to the fourth core, which immediately revealed its nature. Of course, he had expected as much, so when he saw the illusions, he knew he was within the Realm of Illusion belonging to his fourth incarnation—Fruity.

Nothing in this core was real. Everything was an illusion, and without a strong mind and soul, detecting it would be extremely difficult. In fact, even looking at it gave him a headache he would have to adapt to.

The core was entirely made of illusion, causing him to grin happily.

“If my theory is right—which it is because I’m the best—then these cores will grow with my class. Or perhaps my classes will grow with the cores instead.”

Klaus grinned, knowing that if the latter were true, then as he ascended to higher realms, so too would his classes.

At the moment, his Weapons Overlord Class had already shown great promise by awakening the Weapons Domain. When he was in the first core, he could tell that the domain had grown much wider and significantly stronger.

This could only mean, in a way, the latter was the true path. The higher he ascended, the stronger his class became. This meant he was already a monster, considering how much more developed his cores were now.

He gazed at the Seal of Illusions and Poison, and his grin widened.

He walked around the space, moving to see if things were different somehow. He did indeed see some changes, making him understand that, somehow, the poisons and the illusions had now merged.

He observed places filled with poison and places only housing illusions. It was as if the core had been segmented yet merged together, forming a separate yet whole core.

It was confusing, yet it somehow made sense. Klaus knew that, so he didn’t linger there much.

He didn’t know how far the realm of illusion would grow, but at that very moment, he knew that if he somehow managed to acquire a powerful skill that could utilize his illusion on a much larger scale, he would become a menace.

He went ahead and stepped into the fifth core. However, what greeted him was a world of darkness, death, and eeriness.

He was plunged into perpetual darkness.

=========