System vs Rebirth

"Tsk." The guy gritted his teeth and smashed the ice, shattering it in one hit. However, Noel had caught up to him and slashed his sword downwards.

He easily used his arm to block Noel's slash, but surprisingly, he felt pain coming through it. "Huh?"

When he took another look at his arm, Noel blade managed to pierce through a little bit of his metal, causing it to start bleeding.

"What?" He was shocked, not expecting Noel's attack to be this strong. "No. You're not this strong. Even your attack is not this strong."

Noel smiled. "Of course, my effort alone might not be enough to pierce through your defense. But I'm not the only one fighting you."

Noel released all his anger in his Everchanging Sword Style. For Noel, anger was a deep resentment that could bring one's potential to the very limit in a single slash. That was why the blade became even sharper during this slash, allowing him to finally penetrate his defense.

"!!!" The guy realized what had actually happened. It was Anna. She had been kicking him in the same spot over and over again. The lightning had been penetrating his defense this whole time, and Anna must have thought that the lightning was enough and the only thing she had to do was to cut it. That was why she made the cutting motion earlier.

But because she was thrown away, Noel took that opportunity to be the first one to cut him.

"You—!" He wanted to grab Ardagan to throw Noel off, but Anna came through the hole that he shattered earlier.

"Thank you for destroying the ice. I can enter now." Anna smiled while slashing her sword. The guy was shocked but it was too late because Anna's sword had struck the back of Noel's sword, giving an additional boost and finally cutting the guy's left arm.

"!!!" He widened his eyes as the intense pain shocked his brain. "Aaaaahhhhh!"

He hurriedly leaped back to regain some distance while holding his left arm, which was still bleeding. Noel and Anna stood there together with a smile on their face as if they had been planning this kind of result the whole time.

"It seems that you've gotten far stronger than I imagine." Noel glanced at her.

won't be able to

Noel turned back to the guy

smirked and leaped together with Noel. "We

might. At the

back to gain some distance again, but Anna stomped the ground and leaped as hard as she could to catch

his right arm. Suddenly, the metal arm turned

a lot of Spiritual Energy to turn his hand into a blade?' Anna widened her eyes and spun her body to attack him with

*Clink!*

gritted her teeth against him, so Noel had to release all his strength as well to catch up to

pushed her back before swinging his sword to

but even she wouldn't be able to take this on. She prepared

of chains suddenly circled around the blade

were startled by the sudden appearance of the chains. However, Anna had recognized this chain since the

blade as she took a deep

might, releasing a ridiculous amount of lightning. It even brightened the area a

all his

a realm that Noel hadn't reached yet. Even Noel was surprised by this

the conclusion came

*Crack!*

Anna continued cutting through the blade since Noel

has gone all the way to restrain it. I can't let this opportunity go.' Anna

feared for his life for the first time, but it was too late. The sharp pain had

as both of his arms had been cut by Noel

reveal my other element as well makes it hard to accept. I thought I have managed to catch up to her