System vs Rebirth

"You…" The bully widened his eyes, shocked to find Noel helping him. He thought Noel was weaker than him that needed some helps, but it turned out to be the other way around. Even when he glanced at Noel's previous spot, he knew Noel had cut them down with only a graze.

However, Noel didn't care about his opinion and immediately turned around, finding Alfred getting surrounded by five roots at the same time. He seemed to have a hard time fighting against the roots.

Noel rushed to Alfred without hesitation and took the demon by surprise, cutting down two roots in rapid succession.

Their reaction was the same. Alfred never expected Noel could achieve all this.

On the contrary, Noel simply said, "Kill the demon!"

Alfred's body trembled before he recalled his confidence and goal. Without hesitation, he ran to the tree demon and let Noel take care of the roots.

Unfortunately for him, he didn't realize that Noel was using him to check the demon's capability.

The tree demon could indeed manipulate the roots to attack them. It would be extremely dangerous if it ambushed them out of nowhere. However, the roots were not the only part of the tree.

Even a human could punch, kick, and even headbutt their enemy to inflict damage. Hence, he believed the demon that had been described as scary creature would have more capability than he thought.

Just like he predicted, the branches started moving and expanding not only from the width, but also the wide.

The roots came out of the ground and began to turn the trunk around, showing a huge craved face on the trunk. The giant branches looped around, surrounding Alfred from all directions.

"Tsk." Alfred clicked his tongue and jumped to the side, trying to avoid the encirclement before moving to the tree side.

When he was about to strike the tree with his sword, the leaves fell on top of him.

Because he had seen roots and branches, Alfred stopped in his track and went to the other side, avoiding the leaves that turned out to be just a distraction.

branches to strike Alfred. Although he blocked it with his sword, the demon was stronger than

the demon had one miscalculation. It

planning to chop it with a single strike while its

surprised that Noel always appeared to handle the

reached the trunk, trying to cut it down.

his eyes. He had used the right technique, but

demon had a stronger body than a

the demon and the tree is just its host… Still, it doesn't change the fact that the tree becomes even sturdier. No

thinking, the tree spun its body, especially

"Watch out!" Alfred shouted.

could tell the movement and immediately pull his sword, but… the

couldn't pull his sword. When his vision moved slightly to the right, he

half of Noel's reach. "Kh. Hurry up and pull that sword. If you don't pull your sword right now, you

as hard as he

reached them

all Noel needed to break free from the restraint, allowing him to pull out his

clutching his arm that was injured earlier. He overstrained his muscle and widened his injury from that

man who ruined

the same spot, cutting

mustering every ounce of

sword had a hard time slicing the trunk, but with Noel not thinking about conserving his stamina anymore,

*Bam!*

diagonal cut, the trunk slid down and fell to the

few times before looking at the two who also

the demon enough. The