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.

the ground and turned

intertwined, the creature immediately jumped to the side, leaping for over one meter

eyes in surprise before

bully hurriedly followed him, but the black ball attached itself to a tree as if it was getting swallowed by

trembling as there was a faint sound coming from

to charge at the tree, but Noel stopped, observing the

was gradually moving toward him before stopping right beneath his feet. And

Noel gritted his teeth and threw himself to the side. "Spike? No…

the object and

to warn the others, but it seemed they were attacked by the roots as well. Even Alfred stopped to block the root while the

to warn the others actually

more roots emerged from behind and looped around him, trying to strike him from

sound and turned around, waving

cut through the first root, but stopped in the middle of

in shock. Ardagan's sharpness was beyond his imagination. He had tried to

his teeth while leaning his body to the side. Although Ardagan cut one root and stopped the other one, there was still one root moving toward him.

movement, the root missed his arm, only grazing

back, raised it to the top of his head, and swung it down,

root was cut so easily that he felt no restriction from it, unlike the first

Noel was surprised by the revelation. But his mind soon tried