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He distinctly remembered each spirit he had killed and the number of times he had killed them again after their resurrection.

This was the basic professional ethic of being an axe-wielding man; if his memory wasn’t somewhat fragmented, he would have remembered everyone he had killed since he started working, including the state they were in just before their deaths—the axe-wielding man would remember it all firmly.

And now, the number of spirits he had hunted had become seven hundred and thirty-three!

The axe-wielding man took out an alchemy firearm from his robe, loaded with mercury bullets, and aimed at a Wandering Gunman player in the distance who had just fired a headshot skill; the axe-wielding man also pulled his trigger and fired the mercury bullet.

The bullet shot from the alchemy firearm scattered into more than thirty fragments, one of which collided with the bullet fired by the Wandering Gunman, sparking in mid-air, while the rest of the fragments struck the Wandering Gunman player squarely.

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The shards of the mercury bullet did not cause much damage to the player, but they caused his body to stiffen briefly.

This brief stiffness was deadly; the axe-wielding man wielded his axe in that moment, cleaving the Wandering Gunman player in two.

The axe-wielding man knew that killing these spirits would leave no blood; they would simply turn into a tombstone after their death, and the Wandering Gunman turned into a tombstone depicting a golden seal surfing.

“…” The axe-wielding man swore that even if he died, he would never have his tombstone shaped like a seal, let alone have it gilded.

But this group of spirits held absolutely no reverence for death, because they simply did not die.

The axe-wielding man had realized this point during the long thirty hours of battle; no matter how he killed the spirits, they would resurrect.

If it weren’t for the fact that he could extract energy from each killed spirit, the axe-wielding man might already be thinking about causing trouble in the neighboring plane. @@novelbin@@

But the axe-wielding man chose to battle these spirits on the battlefield instead of running to the Tower of Trial plane to kill those natives.

Because the energy they drew from the spirits came from the Sea Blue Goddess, whose power could help them repair this shattered world. They could also “swallow” the looted items at the Tower of Trial, but it would take a long time to digest them.

When the axe-wielding man targeted another spirit, he suddenly yelled out…

“Wait a second! I’m here to pledge allegiance to Queen Mei!” the spirit shouted.

The axe-wielding man immediately stopped his axe and casually blasted away a battling Mage beside him, who was poking him with a spear.

“Are you here to pledge allegiance too?” the axe-wielding man sized up the spirit, a robust clergyman.

The axe-wielding man detested the corrupted, but he still held a high regard for such clergymen; one of his battlefield rules was not to kill medics, either male or female.

However, if these clergymen dared to attack the axe-wielding man, he would let them go just like he had previously with the Berserker, and then turn around to raise his slaughtering axe against these fellows.

This clergyman, called Meaty Shield, had also been killed by the axe-wielding man once before, and the axe-wielding man thought he would come back full of hatred seeking revenge.

But why suddenly proclaim allegiance to Queen Mei?

But this medic wasn’t the first spirit to spontaneously seek out the axe-wielding man to pledge allegiance to Queen Mei. Ever since he had recruited that Berserker and the other spirits under his command a few hours earlier, a spirit would pop up every few minutes to swear allegiance to Queen Mei.

However, the axe-wielding man was currently being attacked by players from several guilds, leaving him little time to stand still and chat with the medic. After being hit by several ranged skills, he raised his axe and chopped at the other nearby players.

“Fellows nearby! Can you wait until I’ve finished accepting the hidden quest before fighting!”

Just as the medic popped open the window for the hidden quest, the axe-wielding man ran away and the window disappeared, forcing the medic to chase after the nimble figure of the axe-wielding man.

“What hidden quest?” a Marksman with a Lego toy brick head asked Meaty Shield.

“Pledging allegiance to Queen Mei! Brother, check out the forum. Someone has already posted about this quest! It’s related to boosting favorability with Queen Mei.” Meaty Shield hurried after the axe-wielding man after speaking.

“Polishing up Mei’s favorability? Chairman! Big news!”

The Wandering Gunman came from the Night Rush Guild, which was currently ranked eighth among the holy spirit guilds. They and another guild, the Gray Eyes Association, were responsible for dealing with the axe-wielding man.

The guild members were so focused on clashing with the axe-wielding man that they didn’t notice any hidden missions he might have had.

“I just found out about this too. Should our two guilds cease fire and take on the hidden mission first?” The chairman of Night Rush, a Hunter player known as Moonlight Wheel, discussed this briefly in the voice channel with the chairman of the Gray Eyes Association and quickly made a decision.

So…

“Hold on!”

Just when the axe-wielding man was about to bring down his axe on the Night Rush chairman, Moonlight Wheel called out.

“What? You want to pledge loyalty to Queen Mei too?” The axe-wielding man actually stopped his axe to ask.

“Yes!”

“…”

The axe-wielding man couldn’t understand what was going on with these spirits. Just moments ago, they were bombarding him with skills while he chased them with his axe, and he had killed quite a few spirits at least two to three times.

To outsiders, it looked like a blood feud that would not end until death, but how did it turn from unending hatred to a sudden decision to switch allegiance?

Mystifying…

What baffled the axe-wielding man even more was that starting with Moonlight Wheel, the players from Night Rush actually stopped their attacks upon seeing the axe-wielding man and decided to gather around and take on the hidden mission first.

For a moment, a brief ceasefire and negotiation period appeared on what had been a brutal battlefield.

“You all want to pledge your loyalty to Queen Mei?” The axe-wielding man eyed the players gathering around him, thinking about using his magic power to explode and turn this bunch into tombstones.

“Line up! Line up! Even switching sides needs some order!”

“Line up, my ass! Aren’t you afraid of being slain by some zombie soldiers that pop out from somewhere? This boss might suddenly start killing people too! Hey, is there still time to join Queen Mei’s personal guard now?”

“…”

With his axe in hand, the axe-wielding man watched as more and more players gathered around him. Logically, he should have swung his axe and chopped down these spirits, but the first thing these players said when they faced the axe-wielding man was…

“I am here to pledge my loyalty to Queen Mei!”

“Axe-wielding man! I’ve decided to stop being a chosen one of the Sea Blue Goddess!”

The loyalty of these spirits to the Sea Blue Goddess was a bit too low, wasn’t it? In the past, when the axe-wielding man still worshipped the Sea Blue Goddess, just uttering the blasphemous words “I betray the Sea Blue Goddess” would have led to execution!

“Want to pledge loyalty? Fine! But you must prove your loyalty!” the axe-wielding man shouted loudly. If these spirits really could join Queen Mei’s faction, it would indeed be a huge help.

But most of them just came by to shout their loyalty and then snuck off to do whatever they were doing, and some even came specifically to tease the axe-wielding man.

“Bro! I heard that joining Queen Mei’s faction gets you a photo album of the queen, is that true?”

Photo album? What’s that?

The axe-wielding man had inquired what these spirits were fighting for, and most of them answered with things like equipment and medals, which seemed like fairly normal pursuits.

But a photo album? Is that the name of a magic book?