The Last Paragon in the Apocalypse - Chapter 1231

Chapter 1231: Mission Completed
CRACK! SHATTER!

Reality as Tharn, or the Shadow Butcher, knew it cracked and shattered like glass.

Blood poured from his chest, soaking the bed.

His eyes looked dull, and the look of disbelief painted his face as he stared weakly at Eliza.

“H-how?” he asked weakly, feeling his body dying slowly. His heart had slowed and was gradually shutting down.

Eliza sneered and answered him, “You shouldn’t have smiled at me. It freaked me out, so I had to kill you. No hard feelings.”

“H-how… did you… know… I was… t-the Shadow… Butcher?”

“Oh, that. I happened to have someone who can commune with the dead, so she helped me talk to the man you killed three days ago and found out your true identity,” Eliza smiled.

“Also, you are an amateur, so finding you was rather simple. Blame it on your inexperience and sociopathic interview with the Dark Fantasies, I guess.”

The Shadow Butcher tried to will the shadow link he planted in Eliza’s shadow to steal her life force, but to his shock, it wasn’t there. It was like the link he planted wasn’t there.

Suddenly, a voice he recognized spoke from a chair not far from the bed. “So it turned out you are that scary after all.”

Klaus stood up and walked toward the bed. He sat down and tapped Eliza on the shoulder. “Nicely done, Eliza.”

The cute lady smiled and nodded before turning into mist.

The illusion was broken, and with it, the Shadow Butcher breathed his last breath, the face of the love coach he met being the last thing he saw. The moment he died, his true appearance was revealed.

Klaus looked at him for a few minutes before shaking his head. “It was fun while it lasted, I guess.” He took an image of the Shadow Butcher, then used the ring he received from the mission hall to collect his remains.

Then he opened his profile and added a few details before clicking on the ‘Done’ button.

Klaus looked at the blood-soaked bed and sighed. With a flick of his finger, everything was wiped clean, leaving not even a single trace behind.

He teleported using the void and appeared somewhere in the city. He then made his way toward the ship.

Meanwhile, back at the bar, the live band people were still entertaining the guests.

The lead singer who killed the Shadow Butcher wasn’t even aware she had done something like that. In truth, no one in the hall saw what happened.

The entire process began two hours ago when Klaus arrived in the hall. Initially, he was planning on using the void to trap the Shadow Butcher and then kill him inside the void.

However, Icon informed him that there were no immortals around. This gave him the confidence to use his illusion abilities.

The two-hour dance happened. People enjoyed it, and he may even have become popular, thanks to videos of him on the internet, recorded by people.

However, it wasn’t as simple as people saw it. The two hours Klaus spent dancing were spent creating an illusion that affected everyone’s minds.

He designed an illusion that tapped into what was happening in reality and turned it into an illusion. It was a rather complete weave; however, with 200 minds working in sync, Klaus pulled it off.

Once he completed that, Klaus’s next move was to manifest the illusion in the real world. That also took some time, but slowly, he was able to turn reality into illusion.

Nobody recognized that.

In fact, even if there were Real Immortals around, they wouldn’t have realized what was happening. Using 200 brain power is more than enough to trick even Real Immortals and some True Immortals, even.

The second stage was the most difficult. So when he completed that, he only had to focus on the shadow butcher.

From the moment he smiled at Eliza to when she came to him and asked to go inside was all an illusion made real. Klaus had that ability. He could turn illusions into tangible things that could be interacted with.

So while the shadow Butcher was holding hands with Eliza as they moved to the hotel room, the real Eliza was still leading her band.

However, once they moved to the hotel room, the illusion was deactivated. But, because the illusion was the same thing as reality, nobody realized anything.

Everything to them was as it should be.

The rest was history. Klaus merely turned Eliza into a tangible killer who could morph her body into any weapon.

Many people think illusionists are weak, that when you have the strongest mental strength, defeating them is easy. However, with Klaus, he didn’t need to send you into an illusory state.

He could easily manifest illusions and turn them into tangible forms. Then, with that, even if your mental strength was as strong as it could get, you would still have to fight against the tangible shadows.

That is how powerful his Unknown bloodline is.

He merely killed such a dangerous person using mind games.

Once he got to his ship, he flew away.

Two hours later, Maud and Klaus checked out of the hotel. He merely left a clone he created, thanks to one of his soul bodies now possessing the ability to create true clones.

Once they were outside, they teleported into the ship. Maud had recovered enough, so they left and started speeding toward the next mission.

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Meanwhile, back at Mission Hall Headquarters on Planet Dravon, the nail lady looked at her screen, bewildered.

“Impossible…”

She was looking at the mission she had upgraded to an Epic mission, marked as completed. It was completed by the person she didn’t even regard.

“How is this even possible?”

Something told her to examine the mission, but before she had the chance, a notice she could not ignore appeared on her computer screen.

[Mission Title ‘Hunt the Shadow Butcher’ has been approved by the Star Lord.]

She swallowed and closed the screen. She then opened Klaus’s profile to see his details.

“His first mission, and he picked this mission three days ago. Just who is this renegade?” She didn’t know what else to say, so she checked Klaus’s next mission.

“The Whispering Beast… 72 hunters have failed this mission, with 12 of them even dying in the process. This Renegade Hunter is clearly not an easy person.”

She thought for a while, then she clicked on Klaus’s name and then clicked on add. A list of rankings appeared.

She looked through and selected one.

“Let’s see what you can achieve on the Rising Star list, Renegade Hunter.”

She closed the mission admin page and went back to watching nail design videos.

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Meanwhile, back inside the spaceship, a series of messages appeared on Klaus’s phone. He quickly accessed them to see.

[You have completed your first mission: ‘Hunt the Shadow Butcher’]

[Rewards have been transferred.]

[Because you completed an Epic-rank mission, you have received one mission priority pass. You can use it to reserve a mission that no other hunter can claim for a limited time.]

[Congratulations, you are now an E-ranked Hunter.]

[Congratulations, you are now a D-ranked Hunter.]

[Congratulations, you have been added to the ‘Rising Star’ list. Current rank: 1,004,600.]

[Because you have been added to the Rising Star list, you can access a mission from a mission board one rank above your current limit.]