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 would have to fall for at

approached him from

done it yet. He created an

affect him, but because he had never experienced this before, he was too late in releasing his energy

His black flame gushed out of his

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

No, from what I can see, he is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it instantly and ended

but failed to knock it

here so that the Sword Arbiter wouldn't be able to stop Noel's

This way, he rotated his hand and reached out

Anna tried to release more strength, but it was too late. The energy that had been contained within

his head and released the residual energy to

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

up breaking the ground underneath him as blood started

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

Sword Arbiter. "So, this is

his sword." Anna smirked. While she wasn't injured, her hands

deep breath, looking at the duke's sword. A normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could see how the energy

was something different from Ardagan, who was a living spirit. But when he thought about it, Ardagan was just a normal sword if he ignored his consciousness as a spirit. He had been living in this world

been releasing the energy contained in that sword, but had he actually controlled his energy this whole time? If he didn't have

again and asked inwardly, 'You have

don't forget that I'm only responsible for

the case…' Noel smiled, realizing that he could do something else. "Duke Lorelei. If you

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

a serious expression. He gathered the energy in Ardagan while

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 the program he

to be able to do something that he couldn't

massive amount of energy. It looked like a normal

it. Its power at least doubled, and there was a different kind of sharpness in this strike. This was