"Help! Someone save my baby!" A woman covered in blood clutched the infant in her arms. Her lower body had already sunk into the mire, and the muddy water was about to reach her neck.
Whoosh!
A streak of deep blue blade light flashed past.
Rokuya appeared beside the woman like a god descending from heaven. The wind from the Shura Greatblade alone instantly split the mire apart. Deprived of the Blood Demon Art sustaining it, the mire immediately turned into ordinary dry earth.
Rokuya grabbed the woman's shoulder, hauled her out of the earth like pulling up a radish, and casually tossed her backward. She landed securely on solid, safe ground.
[Ding! Extreme gratitude detected from villager 'Yoshiko Yamada.' Gratitude Points +300!]
The system's notification rang crisply in his mind, and Rokuya's eyes instantly lit up.
"Three hundred points?! Hell yes!"
Rokuya licked his lips and looked at the trapped villagers around him. In his eyes, they were no longer ordinary civilians, but walking bundles of system experience.
"Everyone get out of my way! I'm here to save you!"
Rokuya roared, his figure becoming a bolt of blue lightning as he darted wildly through the ruins and mires.
Boom! He kicked away a boulder weighing a thousand jin and rescued an old man pinned beneath it.
[Ding! Gratitude Points +150!]
Whoosh! He swung his greatblade, chopping several earth puppets trying to feed on the wounded into fragments, then scooped up two boys frozen with fear.
[Ding! Gratitude Points +100! Gratitude Points +100!]
"Run! Follow the path I cut open and head down the mountain! Anyone who looks back gets cut down by me first!" As Rokuya frantically harvested Gratitude Points, he herded them like sheep, delivering the kindest instructions in the fiercest tone.