You say this is a love game?

Sword energy everywhere!!

The sword energy that Mizutani Makoto swung out at this moment was cold and murderous, completely different from the sword energy of the brilliant fire thunder. The ghostly sword wind swept over like a tornado.

Within five meters, those dog-sized rats were torn into pieces before they could even scream!

The air was filled with blood mist and body parts were flying everywhere.

The nodachi in Mizutani Makoto's hand has accompanied him through hundreds of battles and is now covered with scars. No matter how well it is maintained, its durability is always less than one-third. Looking at the blade, it is visibly dull to the naked eye.

But things are different now. Mizutani Makoto uses sword energy to carry the Odachi to meet the enemy. He does not need the blade of the Odachi to kill the enemy. He no longer relies on the blade itself. The sword energy alone is many times sharper than most blades!

It's his turn to have a good game with this wild sword.

After enduring such pressure for so long, it’s time to relax.

This wave of beasts was directly broken up by Mizutani Makoto. Relying on his three lives, Mizutani Makoto faced the most violent wave of beasts alone, while Chidori and Yajima Mai were responsible for the rest of the big ones. Yajima Mai's performance was even more amazing - as a paper-middle-ranked person, she could easily swim among a group of paper-middle-ranked and paper-top-ranked people!

Tiger claws! Snake tail!

It was as if a chaotic beast's phantom was covering her body, and those slapping claws and tails were causing real damage!

Seeing this, Mizutani Makoto was no longer distracted.

He swung his sword like the wind, and the sword energy swept across. Wherever he passed, the demon rats could not slow down his pace. In the blink of an eye, he stepped in front of a wheel.

——Wheel of entry!

A classic Japanese monster.

The image of the Wheel of Fortune is a burning ox cart wheel with a hideous bald male face embedded in the center. Severed human limbs are hung on the wheel, and when it moves, it is accompanied by flames and a loud roar.

This thing is also a monster in the Kyoto area. According to legend, at dusk on Higashitoin Street in Kyoto, Rinyudo will appear with terrifying momentum. If you look directly at its face, your soul will be sucked out. It is a terrifying monster that takes away people's souls.

"Hoohoohoo!!"

The flames rolled in the air like giant red pythons. The ground where the wheel flew over had already been cracked and blackened by the high temperature.

Makoto Mizutani didn't know what was so special about the human face in the center of the Wheel of Fortune, but since he knew how powerful the Wheel of Fortune was, he would definitely not look directly at the face of the Wheel of Fortune.

If you don't trigger the legend of "stealing souls", then this round of entry into the Tao will be nothing more than a monster of the middle level!

"And the middle position..."

Mizutani Makoto murmured softly, but he no longer took it seriously.

This was indeed the first enemy he encountered in the Hidden Ruins that was worthy of his attention, but its position was not enough to stop him.

"No thought, no thought!"

The flames were split, and a corner of the entire wheel was cut off, leaving it incomplete.

The human face let out an angry roar!

The wheels rolled, and the wheel filled the broken corners with flames, and began to run wildly across the field, circling around him, trying to find his weakness.

Mizutani Makoto's mind kept predicting the trajectory of Lunrudo. The high-speed moving wheel gradually became clear in his perception, and the trajectory of its landing point was completely predictable. So he slashed with his sword, and the killing intent in his heart turned into sword energy, which stabbed out for more than five meters. The vaguely visible arc-shaped slash directly hit Lunrudo's face!

"cut!!"

The cold and brutal sword cut the Wheel of the Immortal in two, and the face in the center turned into green smoke and flew away in pain.

"I feel like he's gotten stronger again..."

Chidori floated in the air, six thunderbirds displaying their divine might. No monster could approach, for if they did, they would be slashed by Chidorimaru. She silently watched Mizutani Makoto's figure. Even without Chidorimaru, he could easily kill monsters of the same level.

This is the Sword Saint.

For such a young sword master, his destiny is far from over.

"Humph."

The girl's lips curled up, but she hid it well. At this moment, she couldn't help but think of some subtle thoughts, focusing on her own sword master's "Shintoku Descendant". She actually had a deep understanding, and realized that her "spiritual connection" with Mizutani Makoto was just missing that last little bit, and that little bit was exactly what made her feel awkward...

A ruined village stood in the wilderness. The monsters in the field rushed towards the ruined village with a violent and bloodthirsty attitude, not fearing life or death. What greeted these monsters were three completely different deaths.

The bloody wind blew across the field, and the blooming peach tree turned its head as if it sensed something, and killed the two fish that had escaped the net. While burying the corpse of the demon rat under the roots of the tree, it sighed inwardly at the fierceness of the battle.

At the end of the battle, Mizutani Makoto thought the battlefield was over, but unexpectedly, there were changes in the front.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!"

In sight, a rat covered in a monk's robe, with a human-like look of fear on its face, ran towards the village.

Behind it followed a new group of demon rats and three figures covered in black, like skeletons.

"Is that... Iron Rat?"

The Iron Rat, also known as the Laihao Rat, is a monster.

According to legend, Tieshu was once a high-ranking monk in Hiei-dera Temple in Shiga Prefecture, but unfortunately he was persecuted to death by a rich and evil old man.

After the death of the monk, his wronged soul and resentment gathered and turned into a red iron rat. In order to seek revenge, he went to the house of the bad old man who had killed him and started to cause damage. However, because he was once a monk, his damage was limited to destroying property and food.

Its appearance is obviously rat-like, wearing a tattered monk's robe and holding a string of Buddhist beads.

As for the "iron" in its name, it actually has nothing to do with metal, but refers to money and treasure. For this reason, there is a folk proverb that "a rat at home is like a treasure", which means that the iron rat is a monster that attracts wealth, and people who see the iron rat will have their fortune greatly improved.

Seeing the Iron Rat in such a situation, Mizutani Makoto was naturally very surprised. What's more, the Iron Rat that was running away did not look like a hostile unit. The panic on its little face was so vivid.

"Being hunted?"

——There’s hope.

"Go and save it."

Mizutani Makoto made a prompt decision and rushed out of the defeated beast tide alone, and ran towards the group of monsters at full speed.

The one chasing the Iron Rat was "Nitianfang".

Nitianfang is the vengeful spirit of a farmer who died in hatred due to a land dispute. The farmer worked hard all his life but was harmed by the landlord. Due to the nature of the old farmer, he still wants to protect his land after turning into a monster.

It is usually depicted as a one-eyed, three-fingered monster with a hunched skeleton-like body. The most classic story about it is that it runs to the fields in the middle of the night and shouts "Give me back my land." It is a kind of monster that is full of feudal blood and tears.

But the Nitianfang that appeared in the dark was different.

It did have a hunched, skeleton-like body and three-fingered hands, but its face was that of a human with disheveled hair. Its facial features were distorted and ugly, but it did not have one eye.

"Squeak!"

The Iron Rat Man stood up, about one meter tall, and walked on the farmland with his short legs, running at a speed beyond imagination.

However, no matter how fast you run, you can't escape all the way through the mountains to here!

The iron rat was squeaking non-stop at this moment.

It used to use the ruins of Yinli as its base, and would rush to the mountains every once in a while to pursue its oath. Recently, it just took a few days of dry food and went out, wandering around the outskirts of the mountains for two days, but when it came back, it found that the atmosphere in the fields was not right. The closer to the village, the more active the monsters became!

In the end, because Iron Rat was carrying things stolen from the mountains, he was targeted directly.

"Squeak!"

I don’t understand it at all!

The pursuers behind him were getting more and more anxious, but the Iron Rat was running slower and slower. Most of its physical strength had been consumed during the round trip, not to mention being chased by the Ni Tianfang transformed by this group of villagers. Its strength was stronger than Ni Tianfang, but it was not good at fighting, and the long journey made it exhausted. It was really a matter of life and death.

Shu Shu, am I going to die here today?

The fat iron rat was thinking desperately.

The cold blade energy flew across the iron rat's body, startling a few tufts of its fur.

"squeak!!"

It felt a chill on its head and quickly covered its head with both hands, only to find that all the hair on its head had been shaved off!

Oral branch! !

The next moment, a masked giant who looked quite terrifying rushed towards him. The murderous aura on him was several times or even dozens of times stronger than that of the pursuers behind him. The ferocious murderous aura hit him in the face, and immediately scared Tie Shu's brain to a standstill.

pat.

The glowing stone that he was holding tightly in his hand fell directly to the ground.

Shushu opened his mouth wide, staring blankly at the figure leaping over his head. His neck turned in a circle, but in the end he couldn't turn around and fell to the ground. But even so, he had to turn his head and looked at the young man like a wolf among sheep, catching those lower-ranking Nidandafang and starting to kill them!

These monsters don't seem simple.

Mizutani Makoto slashed at their bodies with his sword, spurting out red-black blood. The blood was warm, and a scream similar to that of a human burst out of Nidafang's mouth.

He frowned slightly.

However, after a few rounds, the blade swept past, and three monsters that looked like Nidafang fell to the ground, covering their necks. Their heads flew up, leaving only an empty neck, and their hands were still trying in vain to stop the bleeding.

Mizutani Makoto cut open their chests with a large sword and found three spirit cores inside.

【Zombie's Spirit Core】

Description: A low-level spirit core, harboring the villagers' pain and madness. A violent aura surges from its source, sweeping across the land of Yinli. The harmonious coexistence of humans and demons is instantly shattered, and demons engage in a murderous rampage. Under the aura's assault, the villagers are transformed into demonic beings. They have lost their human sanity, but the fading aura prevents them from fully transforming into complete demons. They can only wander the mortal world in their incomplete forms, like empty zombies.

[Comment: No need for golden apples, free them!]

The villagers transformed into... monsters?

Just like Sanatori Yoshiko who failed to completely transform into a "Zashiki-warashi", the villagers failed to completely transform into "Nidabo" and instead turned into "zombies".

Mizutani Makoto shook his head.

"And there is such a hidden history?"

"The violent spiritual energy, the shattered paradise..."

As for the fate of these villagers, it seems there is no hope.

They have been wandering in this closed hermitage for countless years and have completely lost their minds. Even Tongzi's suggestion is to send them directly to the Western Paradise, which is considered a merit +1 level.

"The violent spiritual energy is sweeping across the entire Yinli from its source. Is that source somewhere in the mountains?"

Makoto Mizutani stood in the field. The young man slowly put away his wild sword and looked at the blurry mountains in the distance.

He thought of the iron rat he had just rescued, but when he turned around, he found that the iron rat had disappeared.

"Ok?"

"Where's my big rat?"

Mizutani Makoto widened his eyes and looked behind him in disbelief - a hole appeared on the ground. He walked over and found that it was a tunnel dug by Iron Rat. The rat had actually taken advantage of the time when he was thinking about the background story and directly used the earth escape technique to escape from the scene!

Does this guy even understand what kindness and gratitude mean?

The corners of Mizutani Makoto's mouth trembled slightly, but he didn't bother with the iron rat. He just saved the rat on a whim. After saving the rat, there might be subsequent NPC plots in the future.

He picked up his large sword and turned around to clean up the mess.

[The attack ends——]

This is a great harvest.

The attack was not a mission, so Tongzi did not give him a mission reward.

But the number of souls brought by this attack alone is nearly 23,000!

More than three hundred monsters!

"If the attacks can be maintained at this level, can you give me one every day?"

Combined with the souls that Mizutani Makoto had collected from the hospital over the past two days, his soul finally rose to over 70,000.

This does not include his backup hidden energy.

【Wood】*61.

【Stone】*107.

【Forged Metal】*4.

Any new material revealed?

"Forged metal?"

"Wait, if I want to build a blacksmith shop, I remember I need this thing..."

But if there are only four portions, it is far from enough.

Moreover, these buildings can be rebuilt upwards, which is really...

"I heard there's a mine here..."

"That's right. Since the villagers can live a secluded life here, it means that this hidden place must be self-sufficient. Even iron tools should be available..."