System vs Rebirth

"Fine. Let's do it your way. You are pretty useful even though you are annoying and weak." Alfred had made his decision.

Noel's answer came in the form of a smile. That was why Alfred thought he had nothing left to say.

"Since we've been talking here without doing anything, it should be enough for resting, right?" Alfred glared at Noel.

"Of course." Noel smiled. In fact, his stamina was still enough to run for a while. After all, he had been running for tens of kilometers for his training. The only reason he stopped here was to conserve his stamina a bit, allowing them to have a perfect condition to fight against the demon.

After getting what he wanted, Noel then followed the group entering the forest.

The trees in the forest were mostly 20 feet tall. They had different types of trees, but their heights were roughly the same. The difference was in the size of the trunk.

If all trees had big trunks, it would make it hard for them to see all the things around them. However, because their size varied, it gave a hallucinating effect that confused them in discerning things.

But it seemed Alfred was overconfident with his ability that he ignored the terrain and continued to move forward.

Noel wanted to advise him, but they still had enough stamina to go all the way to their destination. Hence, it was better to hold back.

Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, Alfred suddenly stopped in his tracks, staring at the front.

"Huh?" Noel was confused for a moment and found a small sphere on the ground. If it was just a small sphere, he wouldn't be that worried. But this ball had six legs.

ground and turned around when it

a big eyeball. When their gazes intertwined, the creature immediately jumped to the side, leaping

in surprise before

but the black ball attached itself to a tree as

was a

the tree, but Noel stopped,

the sound was gradually moving toward him before stopping right beneath his feet. And the next thing he realized, a spike came out of the ground, aiming for his

his teeth and threw

at the object and realized it was a tree's

wanted to warn the others, but it seemed they were attacked by the roots as well. Even Alfred stopped to block the root while the bully had his lower left arm pierce

the others actually bit him on

emerged from behind and looped around him, trying to strike

followed the sound and turned around, waving his sword toward the three

expected, Ardagan cut through the

it?" Noel widened his eyes in shock. Ardagan's sharpness was beyond his imagination. He had tried to cut

Ardagan cut one root and stopped the other one, there was still one root moving

with that last ditch movement, the root missed his arm, only grazing the

raised it to the top of his head, and swung it down, cutting the root that injured him

root was cut so easily that he felt no restriction

the stone…" Noel was surprised by the revelation. But his mind soon tried to figure out