"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.

to block this swing. But as expected, Noel used

her.' Noel smirked, believing he had hit her with this. It seemed his strategy of riling her

so you thought…" To his surprise, Stella answered with a light-hearted tone

to the tree with her sword fully pulled out

Stella. He looked back for a second and realized Stella directed the explosion to the

hot-headed that

the people in

time to

feel gratified that these people still tried to do their best to

breath and pointed his sword

trying to catch Noel off guard by moving

he

started rampaging as if trying to

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

took advantage of the situation to run away, looping

twice?!" Stella smirked, moving toward the

time, he heard

"Yeah."

ducked down. Suddenly, Noel's sword

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

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

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