System vs Rebirth

Chapter 404

"Wha—!" Stella was dumbfounded as she became hot-headed again. "What are you doing?"

She hurriedly chased after him while gritting her teeth.

It might look like he was running away, but Noel knew Stella's personality. So, instead of letting her become comfortable with her serious mode, he would prefer to fight her in this state since she was easier to manipulate.

Noel looped around a tree to use it as a shield.

"Do you think I will fall for this trick? I know you're going to use this tree as your shield to launch a sneak attack. All I have to do is to slice it through!" Stella smirked and waved her sword, striking the tree.

*Clink!*

"!!!" Stella widened her eyes when she heard the clicking sound. She looked at the tree and realized it was only half-cut. In other words, she couldn't penetrate the tree with that swing.

"What? Although Stella hasn't used her full power, she shouldn't have any problem cutting a tree!" Zion gasped.

"Take a look behind that tree!" Jonathan pointed at the rune behind the tree.

It was Noel's Hardening Rune. This was the rune he got after completing the previous mission in the valley.

Yes, he had opened the Spirit Enchantment System, so he could boost everything around him, including the tree.

Now that Stella's sword was stuck in the tree, Noel looped around and struck her from the opposite side.

swing. But as expected,

her.' Noel smirked, believing he had hit her with

you thought…" To his surprise, Stella answered with a light-hearted tone as the wind blew away the smoke from the explosion, revealing Stella's

standing next to the tree with her sword fully pulled

second and realized Stella directed the explosion to the sword

I were not so hot-headed that I ended up overlooking things, I wouldn't have had to experience all that stuff. That's why no matter how hot-headed

was right. Noel wasn't the only one who had gotten stronger. Stella and all the people in the Zero Squad had tried to fix

to get stronger due to not being able to overcome

couldn't help but feel gratified that these people still

and pointed his sword at her neck

to catch

had prepared for this since he used his Sword Fire

sword started rampaging as if trying to

could see her sword reddened as if it was heated up. If this continued, her sword would

of the situation to run away, looping around the tree

me twice?!" Stella smirked, moving toward the tree. When she was about to strike it, she

time, he heard Noel's

"Yeah."

she instinctively ducked down. Suddenly,

started sweating, never thinking someone who had just

had waited for a bit before slicing down

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