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.

albeit they ultimately stopped her from chasing after

the Peak Level Demons on Noel's side also surrounded him from two directions. But instead of stopping him, they only tried to distract Noel 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 lethality of that

of black 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 all his

thought this should be enough to prevent the earthworm from eating him. Yet, the latter gave him a surprise by drilling the ice block and all

Luckily, Noel had another plan. He used the ice block to cover the earthworm's senses and jumped on top of him the moment he broke the ice

it didn't have eyes, but it could easily sense

raised its head and chased after

Noel was

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

and shattered the ice crystal in an instant as the

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 part

*Bam!*

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

escape from the Peak Level Demons' encirclement and shot herself to

underestimate me."

Level Demons that were after her and rained them down with the Undying

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

they were not used to kill the Peak Level Demons, but to stop them from coming after her. The moment they served their purposes, the feathers changed directions and hit the earthworm's

shivered once again, letting him know that the

'There are a total of five Peak Level Demons and three Advanced Level

and changed his focus. Since Anna was holding the earthworm back, he

first rune was the Rune Blast, while

Blast to the earthworm. Sensing the amount of Spiritual Energy that Noel poured into this rune, two Peak

*Bam!*

they absorbed most of the energy. The remaining energy

reason why he prepared the second rune was for this exact

Energy Gathering Rune was sucking all the Spiritual Energy around

he was planning to do the same but at a larger scale. So, they hurriedly moved toward the earthworm, trying to block it. The remaining Advanced Level

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

Noel muttered those words while trying to extend his Spiritual Energy to the one that the rune gathered. He tried to apply Old

like they were trying to attach themselves to each other and began to form a

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

the fire element to light up this amount