System vs Rebirth

"What are we going to do now? That guy must be running away, leaving us here to fend for ourselves." Lezlev gritted his teeth, looking at Alfred. Even though he could cooperate with Noel and trust him a bit, this was already beyond his ability.

"Nothing we can do." Alfred shook his head. "Even if we run, this demon will hunt us down. We need to find an opportunity if we want to run…"

"An opportunity?"

"Yeah. If there's another battle around us, we can drag this demon there to get some help from others. But… let's wait for five to ten minutes first. If he doesn't come back, we'll do it." Alfred nodded in agreement. He also wanted to escape right now, but the situation didn't allow him to.

Seeing there was still a trace of trust in Alfred's eyes, Lezlev could only grit his teeth and endure this battle for another few minutes.

The battle continued as the demon continued to overwhelm them. Alfred had exhausted most of his stamina while Lezlev was covered with bruises. The hope became dim as these few minutes felt like a few hours.

The one they expected to come back never appeared.

But when the situation couldn't get any worse, they heard a shout from the side.

"Lezlev, Alfred! Run toward me!"

"!!!" Lezlev and Alfred turned their heads, finding Noel on the side with his shirt completely soaked with sweat.

It seemed Noel had been working hard on his own.

After exchanging a nod, Lezlev and Alfred hurriedly ran to Noel.

As Alfred said earlier, the demon chased them. Its speed was quicker than them, so the demon caught up to them soon.

and pounce them, Noel leaped forward and grabbed Lezlev

suddenly dropped to the ground, making the demon miss them and falling to the

painful, Noel still stood back

mid-air as if he was stuck in that position. And Noel thrust his

*Huft!*

*Huft!*

a few times as he dropped to

eyes. There was a

hand, Alfred opened the bushes and found a few sharp spikes planted on the ground. Two of them impaled the demon's face, making him stick in

from woods… No, they're roots."

This demon beast is protected from all sides, so I thought about using a

"The demon tree?"

Hence, I chose the roots

why it took you so

came back

think about using

a demon tree earlier… The time limit and the difficulty don't match up. So, I thought this is a test

everything as our weapons, even the parts of a demon's body. That's why they only want us to bring the crystal back. They want us to use their parts to kill them. Just like these roots, if we use those sharp fangs as a dagger, won't it be able to cut the enemy if we place a trap like

than a weapon made of metal. And one

it takes us to create traps and strategy to kill the

is that?" Alfred

join hands with other groups. Although we need to kill two or three times the number, it's going to be far easier to kill the demon with

them to kill the enemies easier. However, he didn't like the fact

one more thing. "There is a difference between your words and Lezlev's previous plan. It's to have an equal cooperation. We can't