The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse

"Queenie, you are also a person. You deserve to have fun just like everyone else. So why don't you give it a chance? Klaus is both handsome and powerful; you two would make the perfect couple," Queenie muttered, repeating the exact words Nari had said to her months ago.

"Nari, I hate to say this, but you were right; he truly is," she said, watching as Klaus zipped through the air, killing monsters like it was the easiest thing in the world.

From the start of the tribulation to the current stage, Queenie had been paying attention to Klaus, and from then until now, she could tell he wasn't putting his all into it.
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And she was right. The current Klaus— the only thing that could stop him was if he ran out of Star Qi because as long as he had Star Qi running through him, he would never lack the skills and techniques to use.

Against opponents not too far ahead of him in cultivation base, Klaus would dominate them. The current him... Queenie could tell that even great sages would be like greenhouse flowers in front of him.

And she was right—the current Klaus was truly terrifying.

He was now comparable to three Saints in one body. He had formed three Star Cores (Saint Cores). His strength had tripled, along with his soul strength and mental strength.

If his Grandmaster self had already been fearsome, then the moment Klaus became a Saint, his strength would skyrocket to the point where even Sovereigns wouldn't be able to contend with him.

The league Klaus was playing in now was on the level of Sovereigns. Of course, the Sovereign stage was not that simple, but neither was Klaus. With three cores and more forming, only the heavens knew what was bound to happen.

"What kind of existence is he... At this point, is he even human?" Queenie didn't know what to think of Klaus anymore. She could only watch as the battle maniac reveled in the sky.

The tribulation of an Ascendant, they called it... Klaus was proving to everyone that he was not someone to be underestimated.

The message was received loud and clear.

The heavens raged on, pouring Tier 7-level monsters out of the fourth door.

Under normal circumstances, that door should have unleashed Tier 8 monsters on Queenie, and even as an Ascendant, thousands of Tier 8 monsters would have been more than she could handle.

She wasn't Lady Asura—not yet. She didn't possess the savage aura innate to every Asura born, nor did she have the strength to wield it.

But she wasn't the one standing there. Klaus was.

The heavens had aimed to overwhelm her with sheer numbers, but with Klaus taking her place and the Lightning Source Diagram bending the rules, only Tier 7 monsters were emerging.

Klaus could tell that was the current limit.

Any more, and the heavens would be breaking their own rules. But then again, they wanted him dead, so who could say what they might try?

Whatever they pulled, Klaus had started it. Now, it was his responsibility to face it.

"You seem shocked, dear. Why, aren't you expecting your husband to perform something this shocking?"

At some point, Ohema's face shifted from pride to shock as she watched Klaus move through the air like a blur, attacking and killing hundreds of monsters every second.

"I am still prideful, Mom, but I'm beyond shocked too. Although I've witnessed him do the impossible countless times, there's still a limit to what I can consider common sense." Ohema was simply too stunned at this point.

Watching Klaus accomplish the impossible, she just couldn't understand. Perhaps she would have considered it manageable if he were a Sage while doing this. But this... this was just unbelievable.

"It's only natural, even the Sage or Great Sage me wouldn't have been able to do something like this," Queen Lunara said, comparing her Sage self to Klaus. Well, even the Sovereign version of herself wouldn't have had it easy.

What Klaus was doing would have been manageable if he were just using his sword. But what was happening wasn't just shocking; it was impossible.

First, his mind was divided into four parts. One part controlled the First Void Piercing Needle, the second controlled the Second Needle. Then there was the part controlling the Crescent Disc and the Razor Disc. But it didn't stop there...

No... not in the slightest.

If controlling four powerful spirit weapons isn't enough, seven incredibly tall and powerful Ice Pillars are active and shoot ice arrows at a rate that would require an entire army to deploy all their defenses to counter.

But that wasn't all, an incredibly powerful bell rang every three seconds, sending sonic waves that kept killing or slowing down the monsters, allowing the arrows to decimate them.

Then there is the large black hole in the sky, which eliminates almost 65% of the monsters emerging from the tower. A normal human shouldn't be able to do that.

No one at Klaus's level has the soul strength and mental fortitude to handle it. But Klaus is doing it.

"Imagine if there are more like him down there," Queen Lunara sneaked, trying to gather some information.

"There are five of them, in fact. They are his uncles." Ohema, however, wanted her mother to forget about the idea of attacking Earth, so she unleashed one of her contingencies.

"What... There are more like him, and they are his uncles?" Queen Lunara asked, clearly shocked.

"Yes. I followed them around for a while, and from what I have seen, although they are just Sages, Sovereigns, and even Transcendents would struggle against them. It's like they have infinite strength."

"Mom, you would have to see them in action yourself to believe what I'm saying, those uncles of his are monsters just like him. Even he doesn't know about the true capabilities just yet."

"Unbelievable..." Queen Lunara gave up at this point.

Klaus, who had been moving and killing in the air, suddenly stopped and smiled. He then flew back down and landed beside Queenie, making sure the Spirit Weapons took his place.

He sat down and closed his eyes. A few seconds later, a powerful energy burst out of his body, instantly melting the ice within a 400-meter radius.

Inside his soul sea, the dragon cocoon had a crack in it, radiating intense heat. Then, from the first door, star Qi surged out, pouring into the cracked dragon cocoon.

Suddenly, the crack widened, and it burst apart, revealing a small coiled dragon with two fiery orange-red wings, a horn twisted like a crown, and a body adorned with patterns of black runes.

Its back had nine crystals, with only one active, but now it glowed even brighter than before.

A single look would be all it will take anyone to known the Dragon has become incredibly powerful.

[Congratulations, brat. Your Chaotic Nirvana Flame has fully awakened now.]

Roar!

Like the dragon had been the one congratulated, it roared, filling the soul sea with energy.

On the outside, Klaus smiled, then muttered, "Come out and play."

The tattoo on his arm glowed, and immediately, the temperature rose by several degrees, melting the Ice Pillars instantly.

High in the air, a 250-meter-long, majestic Flame Dragon appeared, filling the sky with its roar that carried its authority.

The whole moon responded to its roar turning the weather chaotic red. The dragon had been unleashed, and the Tribulation became even more chaotic.