System vs Rebirth

"What?!" Heirden gasped as he instinctively thickened the layer of rocks that protected his skin to the point where he looked like a golem instead of a human.

After that, he raised both hands, trying to stop Anna's blade.

Anna utilized the momentum as well as the fierce lightning to strike Heirden. She wanted to know how much strength she could muster by this Awakening.

Obviously, the power of the Awakening was not at the same level as the True Spirit Body. But the pill had transformed the Spirit Links, including her veins, to a level where her body could assimilate with the Spirit itself.

When her blade struck Heirden's blade, the Spiritual Energy erupted. The lightning was rampaging on the area, shattering the ground even further. The rampant lightning also bounced toward the barrier.

"!!!" Her father, Kevin, couldn't help but increase the output of his Spiritual Energy as the barrier began to tremble. Kevin looked at his daughter and sucked a cold breath, 'Since when has my daughter become this strong? No, what is she doing the whole time?'

Not only the control but also this transformation. Kevin thought Anna had done something unprecedented.

He was afraid because showing too much would definitely shoot her down. After showing her profound control, the Royal Family might be trying to tie her down. But with this transformation, there was a possibility of the royal family using their influence to suppress her and get whatever they wanted. If they didn't receive it, they would consider Anna's act as treason and carry out the execution.

Still, he hadn't seen Anna's True Spirit Body, so he didn't know how big the gap between this transformation and the True Spirit Body was.

Even the Marshall trembled upon seeing this transformation. In normal cases, he wasn't afraid of anything, considering he was a Spirit Transcendence. The only one who could fight with him equally was Commander Oscar or Alexander.

But from the power of this transformation, he'd got a sense of dread, not because of her power, but because of her potential.

If Anna could completely grow to her fullest potential, there was a chance that her power would be so strong that no one could bind her anymore.

Even the king had to re-evaluate the situation.

Still, the fight had yet to end.

The lightning was shattering the rocks that covered Heirden. Anna had just shown a strength second only to the True Spirit Body.

If their power was equal before, this transformation would have completely overcome the gap.

"Haaa!" Anna roared while releasing all her strength to complete one full swing.

the rock was beginning to be crushed, and

of reflex. Anna managed to complete a full swing. As a result, the rock was completely

his hand, not being able to move his finger. He doubted he could use this hand for at least a few months even after it

up. If he lost this time, his family would be

a

trying to form a sphere that would completely lock Anna

simply stomped the ground, using that force to scatter

the rock and

Heirden

floor trembled as it shot up

eight meters and its fist alone was as big as the

hands together and planned to slam the arena, crushing

the reasons why Heirden's rank was pretty high. In fact, each Arbiter

time controlling that massive amount of Spiritual Energy. Without it, he wouldn't be able to attach all these rocks and turn it into a giant

out of his mouth, nose, and eyes. Yet, he still maintained

challenge, Anna took a deep breath. Because everyone was so focused on the golem, they didn't notice the excited

had begun influencing her mind, taking this golem as a challenge that needed

place only: her sword. There was

could exert some pressure. The more they concentrated their energy into one

shot out the excess energy, it didn't accumulate enough to achieve such

she sealed all that energy within

both the Sword Arbiter and the Marshall had placed their

was

would be a deciding

tense, preparing for the

suddenly felt something nostalgic. This amount of pressure, Spiritual Energy, and challenge couldn't help but remind

instinctively

the last time I wielded this much power…" Anna surprisingly closed her

scene that flashed in her mind. Noel was standing in

able to escape anymore." Anna glared at Noel while concentrating her

that is…" Noel raised his hand. A huge flame erupted from

Spiritual Energy. Her lightning