As one of the PRs who helped scanlate this story, I couldn't have imagined the axe when I was working on Chapter 23 with AP and Allistter. I guess AP knew something Allistter and I didn't at the time.
Now that it's over, I do have a few ideas in terms of repurposing the system explored here since apparently the author couldn't be trusted to follow through. If I do end up making something out of this, I'll post a link here...
For now, thank you for the closure.