System vs Rebirth

"Amazing." Duke Lorelei smiled.

"Tsk. It's still too short." Noel clicked his tongue. He thought he could reach him this time, but his control wasn't at that level yet.

"To think it would need our rune and abilities for him to draw his sword halfway. It seems that we have to go all out for him to fully unsheathe that sword." Anna stood next to him, ready for the second round.

"That's right. If you have the ability, force me to fight you seriously." Duke Lorelei provoked them again, showing that he was nowhere near his peak.

Noel and Anna exchanged looks. They seemed to reach a tacit understanding about their next plan.

The Empowerment Rune in their body got activated, boosting their physical abilities. The surge of strength was noticeable even by the Sword Arbiter.

In that instant, both of them disappeared. Their movement was much faster than earlier, startling him.

The Duke took a deep breath, sending them with his Spiritual Energy instead of his eyes. One of them got caught by the Spiritual Energy and the Duke immediately jumped toward this person, which turned out to be Noel.

Circular Sword Strike.

Noel waved his sword, creating a circle around his body. The Duke ended up striking this circle, which soon expanded, pushing the duke back.

The duke slightly closed his body so that he could gain another surge of strength from his lower body before using it to break the circle apart.

After that, he closed in to lure out Anna.

All of a sudden, Noel smiled as though everything had gone according to the plan, causing the duke to be wary. His sword ended up hesitating, allowing Noel to push him back with his swing.

The duke never thought he would fall for such a trick at this age.

"You youngsters are really good at giving this old man a heart attack." Duke Lorelei smirked.

stomped the ground with his Rune Blast, crashing the ground

movement. After all, Anna immediately approached him from behind once the duke lost his

hadn't done it yet.

but because he had never experienced this before, he was too late in releasing his energy to resist the control of the rune. As a result, the Enhance Forward Rune tossed him in Anna's direction, closing the

black flame gushed out of his body and formed a giant

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

can see, he is loyal, so…' The

Anna struck this sword but failed to

had done enough just to hold the sword here so that the Sword Arbiter wouldn't be able

wanted her to stop it. This way, he rotated his hand and reached out for the sword behind his shoulder. It was at this

tried to release more strength, but it was too late. The energy that had been contained within the scabbard was released at once, knocking her

the same time, the duke swung the sword above his head and released the residual

withstand the massive energy that fell upon him. That massive energy created another wall-shaped trail that stretched for over thirty meters. If he ever unleashed this kind of attack inside

power ended up breaking the ground underneath him

Sword Transmutation ended up knocking the sword energy from the duke and flew into the sky before destroying each other. The destruction caused a shock wave loud enough to be heard

strength of the Sword Arbiter. "So, this is the number one Arbiter, who is known to be unparalleled under

wasn't injured, her hands still felt numb from the energy released by the sword

special, but Noel could see how the

Ardagan, who was a living spirit. But when he thought about it, Ardagan was just a normal sword if he ignored his consciousness as

The duke had been releasing the energy contained in that sword, but had he actually controlled his energy this whole time? If he didn't have to control his energy and just let it flow as the sword had memorized it,

and asked inwardly, 'You have known me for so long, do you think it's

don't forget that I'm only responsible for following your usual

that's the case…' Noel smiled, realizing that he could do something else. "Duke Lorelei. If you don't mind, could

furrowed his eyebrows. It seemed that Noel had noticed something, so he permitted it. "If it's interesting, then sure. But

a serious expression. He gathered the energy in Ardagan

do anything else other than swinging his sword. Now that he had defined the kind of anger he wanted to have after the sparring with Anna, Ardagan should be

Noel to be able to do something that

Sword Transmutation, gathering a massive amount of energy. It

doubled, and there was a different kind of