System vs Rebirth

Circular Sword Strike.

Lightning Force.

Noel's Spiritual Energy started to expand, but due to the toughness of the skin, the part where it touched the skin ended up getting stuck while the rest expanded. On the other hand, Anna's lightning element sparked to the limit, trying to break apart the skin.

The earthworm's skin looked smooth like that of a normal earthworm, but when they struck it with their swords, it felt like they hit a rock. In addition, the rock was so hard that they wondered if this was a rock or a metal.

"Haaa!" Noel shouted while releasing more spiritual Energy, stretching his Circular Sword Strike to the utmost degree. The Sword Strike also hit the Peak Level Demons on the side.

Unfortunately for him, his ability actually left no scratch on the earthworm's skin.

On the other hand, Anna's lightning element had a better chance against it. The lightning's penetrating force was much greater than Noel's ability. A huge area of the strike only left a graze, but the first strike where it was hit the hardest broke apart and left a wound.

"…" Anna furrowed her eyebrows, realizing that a normal strike wouldn't be useful against the earthworm. She had to concentrate all her attacks in one direction.

However, the moment she thought about it, the earthworm had fully emerged from the hole. Its body suddenly wiggled to the side as if it was trying to flap its tail at her.

"!!!" Noel obviously wouldn't allow such a thing. He planned to make the earthworm focus on him. His sword began to emit the Undying Flame as it suddenly burst out.

Ignition Sword.

*Boom!*

The flame exploded and scorched the tough skin. The explosion was even bigger than the last time he used it due to the ability he learned from Old Ru.

Although it was faint, the skin reddened as if the inner part was actually being burned from the outside.

"I see. The earthworm's inner part is extremely delicate, while the outer part is the only thing that is tough. If we can somehow find—" Before he finished his thought, just like what Noel wanted, the earthworm focused on him. Instead of hitting Anna with his tail, Noel was the one getting slapped to the side.

"Kh." Noel still managed to cover his body with Spiritual Energy, but the impact was quite painful. In addition, it blew him away. The front part of the earthworm actually chased after him.

Noel saw the earthworm's giant mouth that seemed to be able to engulf everything. There were sharp teeth all around the mouth. He would definitely get skewered alive the moment it devoured him.

"You're not going to do it!" Anna released a burst of Spiritual Energy, ready to jump on top of the earthworm to deliver a powerful blow.

Sadly, there was no way the other Peak Level Demons would allow such a thing. They had appeared around Anna, attacking her.

tongue and struck their attacks, albeit they

by shooting their Spiritual Energy so that he didn't move from his spot. It seemed that they were scared entering the earthworm's mouth as well, further proving the

suddenly formed and expanded, catching the Spiritual Energy that the Peak Level Demons shot. After that, Noel formed a huge

the ice block and all the parts that entered his mouth were ground into

another plan. He used the ice block to cover the earthworm's senses

it didn't have eyes, but

raised its head and chased after

was why Noel

multiple ice petals inside. The moment they entered the earthworm's mouth,

earthworm's teeth vibrated and shattered the ice crystal in an instant as

to reach the ceiling. Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, a bolt of

*Bam!*

indicating the pain it suffered.

from the Peak Level Demons' encirclement

me."

saw the Peak Level Demons that were after her and rained

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

to kill the Peak Level Demons, but to stop them from coming after her. The

shivered once again, letting him know that the attack

strategy.' Noel assessed the situation. 'There are a total of five Peak Level Demons and three Advanced Level Demons. I can easily kill the latter, but the Peak Level Demons

was holding the earthworm

the Rune Blast, while the second one

shot the Rune Blast to the earthworm. Sensing the amount of Spiritual Energy that Noel poured into this rune, two Peak Level Demons actually jumped

*Bam!*

most of the energy. The remaining energy only felt like a tickle for

had expected something like this. In fact, the reason why he prepared the second rune was for this exact

Spiritual Energy around

they hurriedly moved toward

Advanced Level Demon. He focused on the Spiritual Energy the rune

trying to extend his Spiritual Energy to the one that the rune gathered. He tried to

Spiritual Energy looked like they were trying to attach themselves to

soon as he made that connection, he couldn't help but smile. Even if he couldn't release this amount of Spiritual Energy at once, he could actually use the rune to bypass that

with this, he began the next step. He poured the fire element to light up this