"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, Noel used

believing he had hit her with

his surprise, Stella answered with a light-hearted tone as the wind blew

the tree with her sword fully pulled out from the

looked back for a second and realized Stella directed the explosion to the sword so that it

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 I will be,

people in the Zero Squad had tried

have time to get

couldn't help but feel gratified that these people still tried to

and pointed his sword at her neck again,

start again, shall we?" Stella smirked and jumped forward, trying to catch Noel off guard by moving before he

he used his Sword Fire to block

as if trying to overwhelm Noel's fire, not wanting to lose again

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

took advantage of the situation to run away, looping

will work on me twice?!" Stella smirked, moving toward the tree. When she was about

time, he

"Yeah."

ducked down. Suddenly, Noel's sword

thinking someone who

Noel had waited for a bit before slicing down the tree because he had prepared

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