"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.

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

he had hit her with

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

tree with her

and realized Stella directed the explosion to the sword so that it knocked off the tree. Stella shouldn't be

his doubt by saying, "You would have got me if it was a month ago. Thanks to a certain accident, I realized my weakness. If I were not so hot-headed that I ended up overlooking things, I wouldn't have had to experience all that stuff.

who had gotten stronger. Stella and all the people in the Zero

have time to get stronger due to not being able to

these people still

a deep breath and pointed his sword at her

forward, trying to catch

prepared for this since he used his

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

heated up. If this continued, her sword would become soft and eventually become molten lava, so she had to jump back, avoiding the

to

toward the tree. When she was about to strike it, she stopped and looped

time, he heard

"Yeah."

ducked down. Suddenly, Noel's sword cut through

started sweating, never thinking someone who had just

for a bit before

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