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.

Noel stomped the ground with his Rune Blast, crashing the ground underneath them. With this, they would

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

for the duke, Noel hadn't done it yet. He created an

affect him, 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

His black flame gushed out of his body and formed a giant avatar behind

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

us together? No, from what I can see, he is loyal,

sword but

so

way, he rotated

late. The energy that had been contained within the scabbard

the duke swung the sword above his head and

energy created another wall-shaped trail that stretched for over thirty meters. If he ever

this power ended up breaking the ground underneath him as

the sky before destroying each other. The destruction caused a shock wave

understanding the strength of the Sword Arbiter. "So, this is the number

sword." Anna smirked. While she wasn't injured, her hands still felt numb from the energy released

the duke's sword. A normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could see how the energy flowed in that sword. It was

sword if he ignored his consciousness as a spirit. He had been living in this world

time? If he didn't have to control his energy and just let it flow as the sword had memorized it, wouldn't it mean he could focus on

inwardly, 'You have known

only responsible for

do something else. "Duke Lorelei. If you don't

his eyebrows. It seemed that Noel had noticed something, so he permitted it.

He gathered the energy in

unable to 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 able to control that flow of energy just by following

be able to do something that he couldn't do before, especially a sword

using the Sword Transmutation, gathering a massive amount of energy. It looked like a normal Sword Transmutation until Noel swung the

and there was a different kind of sharpness in this strike. This was the combination of the Sword Transmutation and