Chapter 747 - Butcher Sark (1/2)

For a guild to be truly united, a charismatic leader was indispensable!

Suyo turned to face Ronin. “If you establish the guild, we’ll all do our best to support you.”

Ronin nodded. “Alright, let’s do it. Establishing a guild isn’t that hard anyway. And with a backer like Nirvana Flame, it’ll be even simpler.”

Ronin’s party formed a contract with Nie Yan.

“What do you plan to call the guild?” Nie Yan asked.

“I already have something in mind, Heaven Song. What do you think? It’s the name of an old team of mine,” Ronin said.

“Heaven Song…?” Nie Yan mumbled in a bit of a daze, assailed by an indescribable feeling of shock.

“Huh? What’s the problem? Is the name no good?” Ronin asked. He didn’t understand why Nie Yan had such a strong reaction to it.

“No, it’s nothing.” Nie Yan shook his head. “The name is fine. Call it Heaven Song.” He wasn’t shocked because there was an issue with the name, but rather that he knew it. In the previous timeline, late into the game’s cycle a guild with this exact name popped up out of nowhere. They quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the top three guilds in the entire Satreen Empire and controlling over 20 strongholds. Quick as they rose, so they too fell. They waged war against Angel Corps and ultimately lost, after which they disbanded. All that remained of Heaven Song was a rumour of their guild leader killing Soaring Angel in a duel.

As for whether the guild leader of Heaven Song in the previous timeline was also Ronin, Nie Yan had long forgotten. He never paid much attention to the matters in the Satreen Empire back then. After all, he was just a no-name player struggling for survival.

Nie Yan’s influence had already changed history. With the support of Asskickers United, would Heaven Song still go down the same path?

“Heaven Song, it has a nice ring to it. I like it!” Suyo said.

Nie Yan didn’t expect he would end up participating in the establishment of Heaven Song.

The corpses on the ground slowly despawned. After a while, some Shamans started arriving.

“Ronin, what did you call us for?” A tall Shaman walked up to Ronin and patted him on the shoulder. As he looked around, he spotted Nie Yan. Finding Nie Yan’s face a bit familiar, he lingered on it for a moment. Suddenly, his jaw dropped and his eyes widened in shock. He pointed at Nie Yan. “H-he… he… he…”

The Shaman couldn’t believe his eyes.

“Downfall, what are you stuttering on like an idiot for?” A different Shaman Doctor who had just arrived smacked his hand away. When he turned to look at Nie Yan, his mouth also gaped open like a goldfish.

“N-nirvana Flame?”

“I must be dreaming…”

Nie Yan looked over. All 10 Shamans had arrived. He nodded at them with a faint smile. “Nice to meet you all.”

“H-hello.” The Shaman called Downfall was the first to snap back to his senses.

“Ronin, is that really the Nirvana Flame?”

They found the situation hard to believe.

“In the flesh.” Ronin chuckled after seeing the reaction of the Shamans. He reacted pretty much the same way when Nie Yan revealed himself earlier.

After Ronin’s confirmation, they could hardly contain their shock.

“So, what did you call us here for?” The 10 Shamans all stared at Ronin. Since Nirvana Flame was here, the matter Ronin called them over for definitely couldn’t be simple.

“We need your help with a quest. It’ll probably take a day.”

“Is it dangerous?” Downfall asked.

“It’s pretty dangerous. We’ll definitely wipe, and not just once or twice. The pay is 2,000 gold. As for any deaths on the job, you’ll be compensated for your losses according to market rate,” Ronin replied.

2,000 gold for a day’s work was fairly decent. At their current level, they would already be overjoyed from making 500 gold a day.

Sure enough, having Nirvana Flame as an employer was something else entirely.

“I’m in.”

“Me too.”

None of them bothered to haggle. 2,000 gold was already an extremely generous offer. If they tried to ask for more, they would first have to file for a name change to Scrooge McDuck.

Ronin turned to Nie Yan. “They’re all brothers of mine. We’ve been friends since forever. You can trust them.”

Nie Yan nodded. Even though they hadn’t been in contact for long, he trusted in Ronin’s character. Since he claimed these people were his trusted brothers, there was no reason to doubt him.