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.

their attacks, albeit they ultimately stopped her from

Noel by shooting their Spiritual Energy so that he didn't move

wings suddenly formed and expanded, catching the Spiritual Energy that the Peak Level Demons shot. After that, Noel formed a huge ice block made by stacking

enough to prevent the earthworm from eating him. Yet, the latter gave him a surprise by drilling the ice block and all the parts that entered his mouth were ground into fine

the earthworm's senses and jumped on top of him the moment he broke the ice block

from an earthworm, it didn't have eyes, but it could

moving forth, it raised its head and

was why Noel was

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

again, the earthworm's teeth vibrated and shattered the ice crystal in an

fly away, but the earthworm had enough length to reach the ceiling. Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, a bolt of lightning suddenly hit the upper

*Bam!*

shivered for a second as if it was indicating the pain it suffered. The lightning turned out to be

the Peak Level Demons' encirclement

underestimate me." Anna

Peak Level Demons that were after her and

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

of the feathers hit the demons. After all, they were not used to kill the Peak Level Demons, but to stop them from coming after her. The moment

again, letting him know that the attack

this strategy.' Noel assessed the situation. 'There are a total of five Peak Level Demons and three Advanced Level

Since Anna was holding the earthworm back, he should have had some time

hand. The first rune was the Rune

shot the Rune Blast to the earthworm. Sensing the amount of Spiritual Energy that Noel poured into this

*Bam!*

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

fact, the reason why he prepared the second rune was for this exact

Gathering Rune was sucking all the Spiritual Energy around it,

larger scale. So, they hurriedly moved toward the earthworm, trying to block

Demon. He focused on the Spiritual Energy the rune gathered as well as the one coming from

extend his Spiritual Energy to the one that the rune gathered. He tried to apply Old Ru's ability and connect himself with this huge

trying to attach themselves

if he couldn't release this amount of Spiritual Energy at once, he could actually use the rune to bypass

step. He poured the fire element to light up this amount of Spiritual