"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

her with this.

answered with a light-hearted tone as the wind blew away the

tree with

and realized Stella directed the explosion to the sword so that it knocked off the tree.

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

who had gotten stronger. Stella and all the people in the Zero Squad had tried to fix their mistakes so an accident like Noel's death

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

help but feel gratified that these people

breath and pointed his

Stella smirked and jumped forward, trying to catch Noel off guard by moving before

for this since he used

sword started rampaging as if trying to overwhelm Noel's

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

to run

smirked, moving toward the tree.

that time, he

"Yeah."

body trembled as she instinctively ducked down. Suddenly, Noel's sword cut through the tree, almost

started sweating, never thinking someone who had just graduated could be this

before slicing down the tree because

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