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.

Blast, crashing the ground underneath them. With this, they

approached him from behind once the duke lost his foothold. She would

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

duke widened his eyes in shock. He could feel the energy from the rune trying to affect him, but because he had never experienced this before, he was too late in releasing his energy to resist the

flame gushed out of his body

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

he going to attack both of us together? No, from what I can see, he is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it instantly and ended up throwing the sword to

Anna struck this sword but failed to knock it

sword here so

he wanted her to stop it. This way, he rotated his hand and

strength, but it was too late. The energy that had been contained within the scabbard

his head and released the residual energy to split

Noel had to withstand the massive energy that fell upon him. That massive energy created another wall-shaped trail that stretched for over thirty

power ended up breaking the ground underneath him as blood started to

it upward. The 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 by the people inside the town and strong enough for the gust to destroy all the

Sword Arbiter. "So, this

injured, her hands still

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

from Ardagan, who was a living spirit. But when he thought about it, Ardagan was just a normal sword if

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, wouldn't it

about it, he looked at Ardagan again and asked inwardly, 'You have known me

forget that I'm only responsible for following your

that he could do something else. "Duke Lorelei.

his eyebrows. It seemed that Noel had noticed something, so he permitted it. "If it's interesting, then sure. But if it's not, I'm going to

expression. He gathered the energy in Ardagan while utilizing the

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

Noel to be able to do something

massive amount of energy. It looked like a normal Sword Transmutation until Noel

through the ground, smashing everything around it. Its power at least doubled, and there was a different