The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse - Chapter 593

Chapter 593: The GameShow (3)

The Face of Despair was up in the air, and right now, the three Transcendents and five Sovereigns coming at him both fell for it.

Their bodies froze midair, and then they fell with a heavy thud, hitting the ground. Painful screams shot from their mouths as they wiggled on the floor.

Both his mental and soul strength had become so powerful that he didn’t even feel anything when the Face of Despair was activated…

…instead

Klaus knew the demon bead had awakened and perhaps unlocked, but since he wasn’t ready to dive into anything just yet, he was holding back for now.

But he could tell some changes had occurred, and these changes made it possible for him to attack the souls and minds of even the Transcendents directly.

“Now, for the second game.”

Everything happened so fast that Klaus was back in the game the next second. Duncan and his pals were not much for him…

He looked down at the thousands of warriors, some being shot down by the Lightning Source diagram.

In fact, most chose to come after him, knowing it was futile. It was better to die fighting him directly than to be used as a game character…

Klaus seemed to have awakened a lightning element, and from the look of things, this one had a burning effect.

Of course, he would later figure out its true nature, but for now, all those getting attacked by the lightning were burning rapidly, even from the smallest contact.

“For the second game, I call it 60 Seconds of Hell.”

The moment Klaus said that, the sky turned orange, and the temperature began to rise by several degrees by the second.

Then, out of thin air, a 230-meter-long, colossal yet majestic-looking fire dragon appeared, roaring at the same time.

Nirvana appeared, and the entire city shook.

Klaus chose to call the first fire element he had awakened Nirvana since it was the Chaotic Nirvana Flame.

Though he considered naming it Chaos, for some reason, that name was being saved for another flame element.

His first incarnation told him to do that, and since he trusted himself, he chose to name the first Nirvana—a good name.

So, Nirvana roared into existence, and since it wasn’t there for the final battle while inside the dungeon, Klaus chose to let it spread its wings.

It soared through the air and then looked down on the puny humans below, opening its mouth. It dove down, and when it was a few meters off the ground, fire started spraying out of its mouth.

Klaus stood in the air with a grin as cries of pain and anguish filled the air. The warriors were not having it easy at all.

In fact, their painful cries were so intense that hundreds of thousands watching switched off their devices.

They just couldn’t take it anymore.

All those watching from a distance were now distancing themselves further. Fear gripped them as they just couldn’t understand what was happening.

“30 seconds more,” Klaus said, raising three fingers.

The family heads of the Jinwo and Mason Great Clans raised a large enough defence around most of their warriors, but Klaus wasn’t about to waste energy.

Those who couldn’t be inside that defence were the ones he was after. It was their bad luck for not being inside the defence created.

[Brat, you are currently having thousands of Soul Spirits, which are now condensed into Soul Crystals in the forge. You better take some bodies you can use later on,] the senior said, making Klaus smile.

‘Don’t worry, senior, my puppet master is on that,’ Klaus smiled as he raised two fingers. “Twenty seconds more.”

*****

Somewhere in Stone Valley, inside a large hall where Klaus’s mom and his women could be seen watching the events happening in Union City, Nadia was seated with her eyes closed as her fingers moved through the air.

Lulu, who had high soul strength, could faintly see some dark strings latch onto her fingers as she moved them as if she were controlling puppets in a circus.

In reality, two of the only puppets she had made, thanks to her class, were now in Union City doing something critical for Klaus.

While Klaus was fine with killing all these people, he was not about to later steal their bodies, all while hundreds of cameras and satellites were on him.

So, through the chaos, Nadia was controlling her two puppets to gather some bodies for him. All they had to do was get close, latch a string to the body, and Nadia would take care of the rest.

Naturally, she was having a bountiful harvest at the moment.

“I can’t believe we didn’t get to fight with Klaus, but only sister Nadia got to do that,” Anna complained, feeling like Klaus was unfair to her.

“Maybe you should become a Puppeteer in your next life…lol,” her sister Lucy said, teasing her. The ladies laughed, but at the moment, they were all jealous of Nadia.

She was the only one getting to fight with Klaus. They all wanted to, but Klaus firmly said no…

Queenie, who was with them, could only shake her head. While she would love to fight with Klaus, she didn’t want to show her bias just yet.

She may have become Klaus’s woman, but even with Klaus’s fame, he wouldn’t want to lower her image.

Klaus told her to relax and that when the time came, everyone would know, just like how everyone now knew Miriam was his girlfriend.

“This is madness… How can one person be this monstrous?” Nia said, looking at Klaus, raising one finger and telling everyone that only ten seconds remained.

“I mean, he is Klaus. You saw what he was capable of when he was a mere Awakened. I guess we can only assume he is a monster with no equal,” Lily said.

“You’re damn right; my baby boy has no equal,” Klaus’s mom beamed with a smile as she watched the unruly grin on Klaus’s face, despite being at the centre of massacres in which he was the one committing the massacre.

“Brother is indeed awesome,” Hanna said with a smile. The ladies also smiled, but they looked shocked as they watched the dragon vanish.

*****

All around Union City, flames and destruction littered the entire battlefield, destroying a large chunk of the landscape.

Thousands died, and thousands more were injured, but Klaus wasn’t done. Not even in the slightest. The Lightning Source Diagram ensured that nobody could sneak up on him.

He was hyper-aware of his surroundings, so all those sneaking up on him were met with swift and lethal attacks.

Duncan and his group were still screaming on the ground. Klaus looked at them for a second and then looked away.

He wanted them to die screaming, so he added more energy into the Eyes of Despair, making them experience the most horror until they couldn’t take it anymore.

Suddenly, Klaus turned to his right, only to see a ball speeding toward him. He immediately recognized it, as it was exactly the same one used to attack Miriam.

He saw it in her memories when he was rebuilding her soul, so he knew what it was capable of. He knew that the moment it detonated, a powerful soul attack would follow.

A sword appeared in his hand, and he did exactly that. He cut the ball in half, and boom, a powerful soul attack struck his soul.

But that was it; it struck him, but nothing else happened.

The moment Mason realized the attack didn’t work on Klaus, he sensed despair. Jiwon also attacked using the same weapon given to them by the mysterious individual. But the same thing happened—Klaus was fine after cutting it half.

“If there is nothing else, why don’t we move to the third game?” Klaus said, smiling down at the thousands still left, some running all over the place.

“For the third game—”

Klaus suddenly turned and smiled as a dagger pierced through his heart…

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