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.

wiggled on the ground and turned around when it

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

surprise before his

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

was a

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

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

teeth and threw himself

a closer look at the object and realized it

by the roots as well. Even Alfred stopped to block the root while the bully had

decision to warn the others actually bit him

and looped around him, trying to strike

turned around, waving his sword toward

didn't go like he expected, Ardagan cut through the first root, but stopped

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

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. And he wasn't

movement, the root missed his arm,

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

easily that he felt no restriction from it,

cut it like cutting the stone…" Noel was surprised by the revelation. But his mind soon tried