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.

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

had one miscalculation. It

headed to the tree, planning to chop it with a single strike while its attention remained on

Alfred was surprised that Noel always appeared

already reached the trunk, trying to cut it

used the right technique, but he still failed to

the demon had a stronger

Still, it doesn't change the

the tree spun its

"Watch out!" Alfred shouted.

his sword, but… the result wasn't like what

pull his sword. When his vision moved slightly to the right, he saw the trunk

roared as he struck the tree, albeit he couldn't do as much damage as Noel. Even his sword only went through several centimeter, not even half of Noel's reach. "Kh. Hurry up and pull that sword. If you don't pull

as hard as he could.

them and

to break free from

ground while clutching his arm that was injured earlier. He overstrained his muscle and widened

at the man who ruined everything, the tree aimed at his

struck the tree at the same spot, cutting the other half of the trunk with all his

roared, mustering every ounce

but with Noel not thinking about conserving his stamina anymore, the sword ultimately

*Bam!*

cut, the trunk slid down and fell to

panted a few times before looking at the two who

them, they still didn't know the demon enough. The branches