"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.

block this swing. But as expected, Noel used his Ignition Sword

hit her with this. It seemed his

tone as the wind blew away the smoke from the explosion,

next to the tree with her sword fully pulled

never expecting this from Stella. He looked back for a second and realized Stella directed the explosion to the sword

weakness. If I were not so hot-headed that I ended up

had gotten stronger. Stella and all the people in

the only one who didn't have time to get stronger due to not being able to

gratified that these people still tried to do their

and pointed his sword at

start again, shall we?" Stella smirked and jumped forward, trying to catch Noel off

had prepared for this since he used his Sword Fire to

Stella's sword started rampaging as if trying to overwhelm Noel's fire, not wanting to lose again

sword reddened as if it was heated up. If this continued, her sword would become soft and eventually become molten lava,

situation to run away, looping around

will work on me twice?!" Stella smirked, moving toward the

that time, he

"Yeah."

she instinctively ducked down. Suddenly, Noel's sword

sweating, never thinking someone who had just graduated could

bit before slicing down the tree because he had prepared another

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