Transformed into the leader of an esoteric sect in Japan

It comes with special effects of bleeding and slashing. Using this axe to cut off an enemy's scalp will likely cause panic. The more scalp that is cut off, the sharper and more terrifying this axe will become.

Special skill: Ghost Dance, wielding a battle axe and performing a demonic dance, tearing nature's enemies apart with an incomparably ferocious offensive.

The Demon's Flying Axe throws a battle axe at a locked-on enemy. It automatically tracks the enemy, with a maximum throwing distance of fifty meters. After killing the target, the battle axe automatically returns to your hand.

This axe was rather ordinary in comparison. Kurosawa Shizuki felt it didn't quite fit her art style. It was said that the more scalps it cut, the more it seemed to grow on its own, but even after the Falconer had killed countless people with it, it was still only a green-quality weapon. As for the mysterious Ghost Dance, the Falconer had used this dance-like technique to wield the axe and parry her attacks during their previous battle? This seemed to be a unique combat technique bound to the axe, but Kurosawa Shizuki didn't think it was much more refined than the Phantom Blade style she currently mastered. Finally, that Ghost Flying Axe felt even less useful than the Black Spirit Body.

With her small arms and legs, she's not suited to wielding such a powerful battle tomahawk to kill enemies like a tough American man.

The broken spear can be used more often in the future. As for the battle axe, it's a bit of a waste. It's better to give it to other Shadow Servants later. Kurosawa Shizuki felt that the scene of her wielding such a battle axe like a barbarian and doing an awkward dance was quite peculiar.

He casually tossed the battle axe into the shadow of the black matter, letting the black matter wrap around it in circles. The quiet shadow of the black swamp connected to a part of the Netherworld. Although it couldn't hold living things, he could still throw such equipment in as storage space.

Kurosawa Shizuki rushed towards the battleground between Nakamura Yukise and Takasaki Ryo. The thunder and roars of wild beasts still hadn't completely ceased. Kurosawa Shizuki could clearly feel that Nakamura still had an incredibly strong connection with her. Although Nakamura was unharmed, it seemed she was still locked in a fierce battle. After all, she was only a newly reborn girl, and even though Kurosawa Shizuki had forcibly dragged her to the third tier, her combat experience was obviously not much higher than hers.

Kurosawa Shizuki looked down at the broken spear in her hand, which was still trembling. A thought struck her: why not try it out on the remaining enemies now? She had been so frustrated by being sniped before; perhaps it was her turn to snipe others now?

P.S., This is a 4,000-word chapter, I'll post it as is without splitting it up.

Chapter 74, Section 74: A Decisive Shot

[Your Shadow Servant, Nakamura Yukise, has killed XXXX, a novice follower of the Cult of Bondage. You have gained 31 Nightmare Points.]

[Your Shadow Servant, Nakamura Yukise, has killed the Thunder Samurai XXXX. You have gained 103 Nightmare Points.]

……

When Kurosawa Shizuki checked the system records, she was shocked to find that the various kill records originating from Nakamura had never stopped. So everyone has a hidden side after all? She was such an innocent college student before, but she became so ruthless after becoming a Shadow Servant?

However, it is clear that Nakamura's battle was not just a one-sided slaughter. Through the connection with the black spirit, Kurosawa Shizuki sensed that Nakamura was also enduring the enemy's incredibly frenzied attacks. Moreover, Nakamura's life force was drained by her more than once. When facing Takasaki Ryo, who was also at the third level, the battle was obviously not going to be so smooth.

Since this place is nearly a kilometer away from the battlefield, Kurosawa Shizuki easily climbed up a slightly shorter building opposite the building where the Falconers were sniping, using the spider claws formed from her black spiritual body.

With her will, the broken spear condensed back into a sniper rifle. She set it up on the fence in the same way the Falconer had done before. After getting used to the operation of the new gun, Kurosawa Shizuki observed the battlefield a kilometer away through the scope.

The underworld members of the Gods Society and the Thunder Warriors had already suffered heavy casualties under the raging black thorns.

The first thing you see is Nakamura Yukise's trembling back as she stands in a pool of blood, countless black thorns spinning wildly around her slender, naked body:

"Is this the true power of the black matter?"

She waved her hands, and countless thorns burrowed into the bodies of the screaming Divine Age cultists, then grew rapidly from within them, turning them into miserable corpses hanging upside down on the thorns in the blink of an eye.

"Let my heart tremble, call upon the thunder of the whole world, earth and sky, tremble with me!" Takasaki Ryo, whose body was lifted into the air by the electric field, let out an extremely sharp shout. His left hand was placed on his heart, and his right hand first pointed to the earth, then moved to the sky.

The earth trembled with a thunderous heartbeat. A huge wound was torn open, and massive chunks of rock were entangled by an electric field, flashing with electricity. Hundreds of rocks hurtled towards Nakamura without regard for cost. Blood was flowing from Takasaki Ryo's face; he was clearly fighting desperately.

Faced with countless rubble, Nakamura had nowhere to dodge and could only forcefully prop up the thorny wall to defend herself. However, the wall was teetering on the brink of collapse under the bombardment of hundreds of rubble, as if it would crumble at any moment. While she was defending against Takasaki Ryo's attacks, the surviving Thunder Warriors began to continuously swing their blades at the weak points of her defenses. Cracks continued to spread, and Nakamura, in a perilous situation, was in danger of being overwhelmed by the tidal wave of enemies at any time.

"Damn it..." Nakamura's face grew increasingly grim. It seemed that Kurosawa Shizuki had drained too much of her life force, and her body was becoming somewhat unstable. She lowered her head and muttered to herself, "Am I going to die again?"

"Aim, aim..." Kurosawa Shizuki had never handled such a high-end gadget as a sniper rifle before, let alone one that incorporated the art of invisibility and emitted both the effects of blade and winter. What was even more incomprehensible was how a broken spear from the classical era could be transformed and reforged into a highly technological modern firearm. This meant that there was at least one master craftsman among the Purifiers who was proficient in both modern craftsmanship and the art of invisibility reshaping.

If any lieutenant in the liquidation team can possess weapons of this caliber, then what terrifying blades must the formidable enemy wield?

Growing increasingly desperate, Kurosawa Shizuki had no choice but to temporarily set aside her fears and focus on the battlefield. Upon first wielding the Destiny Spear, she found that controlling it wasn't as complicated as she'd imagined. Fang-like barbs sprouted from the shaft, biting her wrist and drawing fresh blood from her body. The blood flowed through the gun, shimmering with a strange, dark red light. Kurosawa Shizuki sensed the blood being processed within the gun at an incredible speed, mercury and blood intertwining fiercely, finally infused with the power of winter and the aura of a blade. A sharp, slender bullet was automatically loaded.

Kurosawa Shizuki felt that the gun in her hand was indeed alive. Even though she knew nothing about sniping in the past, this gun could guide her to aim on its own. Once it was recognized as her master, the gun of destiny would serve her without reservation. It vibrated excitedly, drew its own blood, and then locked onto the enemy with unparalleled precision and ruthlessness.

As its master, Kurosawa Shizuki's only task is to provide blood, tell the sniper rifle which enemy it should shoot at, and finally "aim according to its instincts." The sniper rifle's aiming does not rely on combat experience or anything like that; as a spiritual being, communicating with it relies on innate inspiration.

Inspiration was Kurosawa Shizuki's highest initial attribute, over a hundred points. Kurosawa Shizuki was certain that no normal human possessed this level of inspiration, which was why the sniper rifle in her hand responded to her so excitedly.

Kurosawa Shizuki felt that if this shot could hit, then it would indeed hit, just like holding a master key that would surely open the right door.

“Then, the first one is you…” Kurosawa Shizuki naturally aimed her first shot at Takasaki Ryo, who posed the greatest threat. After thinking for a moment, she decided to leave Takasaki Ryo with a complete corpse. She still had a daily task to corrupt the priest of the Shindai Society and transform him into a shadow servant. It seems that the success rate of corrupting shadow servants is related to the integrity of the corpse. If it is too fragmented like Yamashita Makiko, it will probably fail to corrupt like last time.

Therefore, she abandoned the large-caliber sniper bullets and instead used the small penetrating bullets that Falconer had previously used to shatter her heart. Facing the Heart-Shaping Cultists who resonated with the world through heartbeats, Kurosawa Shizuki naturally locked her target on Takasaki Ryo's heart. Even through the sniper scope, she could clearly see that as Takasaki Ryo chanted her incantation, strange ripples spread out in circles, strengthening her teammates around her and constantly summoning more rubble and lightning to bombard Nakamura.

Kurosawa Shizuki is now beginning to understand the joy Falconman experienced with long-range sniping. Without a drop of blood on her body, she pulls the trigger, and death descends—how delightful!

Kurosawa Shizuki pulled the trigger, listening with pleasure to the pleasant roar of the gun of destiny. The recoil of the stock was not as great as she had imagined. With Kurosawa Shizuki's physique, she only felt a slight jolt. However, the blood loss in a short period of time still made Kurosawa Shizuki's face turn a little paler.

Then, the silver bullet flashed with a dark red blood-red light, instantly traversing a kilometer, tearing through the air, and just as expected, visited its target.

"How...is this possible?" Takasaki Ryo's incantation stopped abruptly. He turned his head with difficulty to look in Kurosawa Shizuki's direction. "Falconer, you lost?"

His chest was ripped open like Kurosawa Shizuki's before, and his heart, along with his left arm which he had pressed against his chest to amplify the resonance, was completely shattered. This was undoubtedly an incurable wound for most cultists below the fourth rank, not someone like Kurosawa Shizuki who possessed numerous shadow servants that could extend his life indefinitely.

The Heart-Shattering Mystic Cultists, having lost their hearts, were utterly doomed. The thunder abruptly ceased, countless fragments of stone fell to the ground, and the enhancements applied to their companions vanished. The rage in the eyes of the Mystic Cultists faded into fear, their mutations gradually reversed, their violent power plummeted, and even the blades of the Thunder Warriors lost their cold, sharp gleam.

Takasaki Ryo fell backward into a pool of blood without any surprise.

"Both high priests are dead!"

"How is this possible! It was clearly a foolproof ambush?!"

"Run! If you don't run now, you'll never reach the Kingdom of God!"

With their leader gone, the remaining minions fled in disarray. The few remaining Thunder Warriors stopped dancing and instead used their bizarre dance moves to escape, making them the fastest to run away.

After the collapse of the black barrier, looking at the gruesome death of Takasaki Ryo, Nakamura revealed an extremely excited smile: "That annoying heartbeat guy is dead, now it's my turn to perform!"

Yukise Nakamura, emboldened by her position, manipulated the Thorn Black Matter to launch a one-sided massacre. Clearly, no one could expect any mercy from these enemies who had just killed her.

The sniper rifle transformed back into a broken spear and was retrieved into her black essence by Kurosawa Shizuki. Now that the greatest enemy had been defeated, there was no need for her to continue wasting blood sniping those small fry; Nakamura would presumably take care of them for her.

Kurosawa Shizuki effortlessly leaped from the rooftop of the high-rise, easily escaping gravity with her spider claws formed from black matter, and began heading towards Nakamura, who was thoroughly torturing his enemies.

When Kurosawa Shizuki arrived at Nakamura's side, the first thing she saw was countless members of the Shindai-kai sect, nailed to thorns, their deaths incredibly gruesome.

"Who killed me?!" she roared shrilly, her voice growing increasingly somber. "I was so young, I was experiencing my first love, and I swore to climb to a higher position in the Order..."

Many cultists who had thorns drilled into their bodies experienced hundreds of thorns growing directly inside them, equivalent to being pierced by hundreds of spears at the same time.

"But I just died! I just died like that!"

Nakamura Yukise still seemed unsatisfied, wrapping thorns around her enemies, completely ignoring their pleas and cries for mercy. She slowly and cruelly increased the pressure on the thorns, seemingly enjoying the final, gruesome sight of her enemies before they died.

"That's not enough! The pain you've experienced isn't even a fraction of what I've gone through!" Black tears streamed from Nakamura's deep black eyes, his expression filled with venom and rage.

Thorns pierced through the thick armor of the Thunder Warriors, riddling their secretly enhanced bodies with holes, and causing blue blood to splatter.

"And you, don't worry, I'll make sure you die the slowest, the slowest..." He grinned maliciously as he raised his left hand to someone who had been dragged to the highest point by countless thorns.

Thorns formed a black cross, tightly binding hands and feet. A naked young man was tied to the highest point, his body covered in cuts and wounds from the thorns, and countless terrible holes drilled by the black thorns. However, each wound was shallow, and the blood that flowed out made the black thorns even more vibrant.

His chest, pierced by a bullet, was now filled with black matter. Takasaki Ryo was still alive, and to prevent him from dying too easily, Nakamura, with a face full of resentment, forcibly kept him alive with the black matter.

Chapter 75: Nakamura's Darkening

"I'll make you explode! I'll make you bang! I'll make you play music!" Countless black vines rained down on Takasaki Ryo. A normal person would probably have been whipped to death long ago, but Takasaki Ryo possessed the secret of the Heart, and with Nakamura's black essence forcibly reshaping a fake heart for him, the combined effect of the strong heart power caused his injuries to heal on their own, making the pain even longer.

Nakamura was humming the theme song of a shopping advertisement, and the rhythm of whipping Takasaki was actually in sync with it. This was a mockery of the fanatical pursuit of so-called "rhythm" by the Xinxiang sect.

The priest of the Shindai-kai, named Takasaki Ryo, was clearly no longer capable of engaging in direct combat after his heart was shattered by a gunshot. With all his subordinates dealt with by Nakamura Yukise, he was bound to meet a terrible end in Nakamura's hands.

"Spare me, kill me quickly, give me a quick death..." Takasaki Ryo's voice was extremely weak. Kurosawa Shizuki didn't know what Nakamura had done to him before, so that he was tortured to the point of completely losing his will.

"Stop joking, our game has only just begun!" Nakamura's voice was hoarse as his fingers formed claws, and snake-like thorns crawled all over Takasaki's body, burrowing into the various holes in Takasaki's body once again. Takasaki let out another heart-wrenching scream. Kurosawa Shizuki could see countless strange creatures writhing frantically beneath Takasaki. What he was enduring now was perhaps far more than just the pain of being torn to pieces.

"Nakamura, that's enough..." Kurosawa Shizuki finally couldn't stand it anymore and whispered to Nakamura, who had his back to her.

"Who?" The moment Nakamura turned around, his face was filled with an unquenchable ferocity, and countless black thorns attacked Kurosawa Shizuki from all directions.

However, all the black thorns were frozen in mid-air, with the closest thorn being no more than thirty centimeters away from Kurosawa Shizuki's brow. Kurosawa Shizuki's deep blue eyes still held a silent, icy light.

Kurosawa Shizuki snapped her fingers, and all the dark matter controlled by Nakamura Yukise instantly disintegrated and merged into the shadow behind Kurosawa Shizuki.

All the dark matter controlled by the Shadow Servant ultimately originates from Kurosawa Shizuki, and if Kurosawa Shizuki wishes, she can certainly take it back at any time.

Nakamura looked at Kurosawa Shizuki with fear. The venomous expression on her face froze, and then Kurosawa Shizuki saw that expression slowly turn into sadness, and finally into a near-desperate blankness.

“Holy Maiden, no, Master,” Nakamura knelt on one knee before Kurosawa Shizuki, his voice trembling, “I have fulfilled my mission and defeated all your enemies.”

Kurosawa Shizuki stared intently at Nakamura Yukise's spirit. Despite having extracted Nakamura's life force several times before, Nakamura's spirit showed no signs of weakness. On the contrary, it appeared even more solemn and heavy than before, exuding an incomparably evil and gloomy aura. The current Nakamura was no longer the carefree college student that Kurosawa Shizuki had initially remembered; instead, she seemed more like a vengeful ghost that had crawled out of hell.

In Kurosawa Shizuki's system panel, it can be clearly seen that Nakamura's vitality has actually recovered to 73%.

“Well done, but…aren’t you going a bit too far?” Kurosawa Shizuki asked, still hoping that Nakamura Yukise could remain rational instead of becoming a monster without restraint.

“I… I don’t know what happened… I just felt anger and hatred… I couldn’t suppress it, it just kept burning stronger,” Nakamura’s hands trembled as she looked around at the hellish scene as if waking from a dream. “Did I do all this?”

Looking at the fallen members of the Shindai-kai, mostly dead or wounded, the Thunder Warrior torn apart by thorns, and the tortured Takasaki Ryo, Kurosawa Shizuki had a guess in her mind.

Since she can gain Nightmare Points through negative emotions, it is highly likely that other Black Sun Cult members also become stronger by relying on the negative emotions of others. Nakamura's constant torment and slaughter of these Divine Generation Cult members will naturally allow her to continue to recover her condition by gaining a large amount of negative emotions. Although Nakamura has only recently become a Shadow Servant, her brutal instincts belonging to the Dark Essence have already driven her to take action.

Having fought entirely using the Dark Matter Spirit for the first time, Kurosawa Shizuki finally realized just how monstrous the fourth-tier Dark Matter Spirit was.

At least in terms of immortality, Kurosawa Shizuki suspects that only the immortals can surpass her. After all, as long as she has Shadow Servants, she can resurrect indefinitely. Currently, she doesn't see any negative consequences for such resurrection. Theoretically, as long as she has Shadow Servants, she can't die no matter what. And Shadow Servants aren't disposable items; they can also repair and grow by absorbing negative emotions...

However, Kurosawa Shizuki has not yet fought against other cultists of the same rank, so it is not yet possible to confirm whether her immortality is still as effective against enemies of the same rank. At least when Kurosawa Shizuki faced the Falconer's final blow with the broken spear through the Shadow Girl, her intuition told her that if her main body was really hit by that spear, even if there were still Shadow Servants, it would be difficult for her to be resurrected.

That broken spear was only of blue quality. Kurosawa Shizuki was certain that there were definitely more weapons and secret techniques in the world specifically designed to counter immortality. After all, the fifth level of the transcendent realm consisted of long-lived beings with super immortality. It was only natural that the transcendent beings in this world would think about various strategies to counter and break through various forms of immortality.

Kurosawa Shizuki stepped forward and helped Nakamura Yukise, whose face was extremely gloomy, to her feet. "Yukise-chan, you don't need to call me master. We can just get along as usual," Kurosawa Shizuki said gently.

“How can that be! You are the Holy Maiden of the Order, and you may even become the Princess in the future, while I am just insignificant…” Before Nakamura could finish speaking, Kurosawa Shizuki, who was shaking her head, pressed her finger to her lips.

“You are still Nakamura Yukise. You do not belong to anyone, nor are you anyone’s servant. You still retain your independent will, and you have been given a new body and even greater power,” Kurosawa Shizuki actually felt a little guilty towards Nakamura, “but a closer connection has been established between us. From now on, we will face everything together.”

"You died because of me in a way. Transforming you into a shadow servant was a last resort I had to take. I only hope that you can continue to live, even in this twisted form. Yukise, I hope you can forgive me for making this cruel choice for you." Kurosawa Shizuki actually understood Nakamura Yukise's feelings right now. If it were her, she would never want to live in such a twisted form as a dark spirit.

“Holy Maiden…” Black tears welled up in Nakamura’s eyes again. She lowered her head. “Holy Maiden, this is not your fault. I don’t blame you.”

“Ultimately, it’s my fault. If it weren’t for me… our whereabouts wouldn’t have been exposed.” Nakamura Yukise clenched her fists.

Nakamura and Kurosawa both realized one thing—their trip to Parthia Bar was supposed to be an extremely secretive mission, but the enemy had obtained it and set up an ambush on their only route.

That means the intelligence must have been leaked at some point, and there are only a few suspects. It's easy for Kurosawa Shizuki and Nakamura to figure out the weakest link in the intelligence chain.

“Yukise, the trust between us won’t be diminished in the slightest because of that incident. Everyone makes mistakes, and as long as the consequences can be made up for, then nothing is unforgivable,” Kurosawa Shizuki patted Nakamura Yukise on the shoulder. “We’ll probably be spending a very, very long time together from now on, so please take care of me.”

"Your Holiness, please guide me! I will make up for my mistakes with my actions." Nakamura Yukise bowed deeply to Kurosawa Shizuki again, her voice resolute.

Kurosawa Shizuki could clearly see that the surrounding space was becoming increasingly distorted, and tiny cracks were appearing in the sky. Obviously, after losing its maintainer, this temporarily constructed false history was on the verge of collapse. Kurosawa Shizuki knew that she didn't have much time left to clean up the mess.

So, now all that's left to deal with is this guy. Kurosawa Shizuki turned to look at Takasaki Ryo, who was barely breathing. This guy, he should be susceptible to corruption now too, right?

Her daily mission was to corrupt two high priests of the Shindai-kai, and the two she had ambushed today were just what she was supposed to do. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, Yamashita Makiko had to be devoured by her, and she couldn't let Takasaki Ryo go. In order to complete her daily mission, she might need to find another Shindai-kai high priest to corrupt in the future.