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 underneath them. With

kind of movement. After all, Anna immediately approached him from behind

hadn't done it yet. He created an Enhance Forward Rune to

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

forth, surrounding the duke. His black flame gushed out

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

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

but failed to

so that the Sword

why he tossed the sword to Anna was because he wanted her to stop it. This way, he

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

swung the sword above his head and released the residual energy to split the Flame Devil

had to 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

the ground underneath him as blood started to flow out of

into the sky before destroying each other. The destruction caused a shock wave loud enough to

Arbiter. "So, this is the number

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

duke's sword. A normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could

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

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

Ardagan again and asked inwardly, 'You have known me for

forget that I'm only

the case…' Noel smiled, realizing that he could do something

It seemed that Noel had noticed something, so he permitted it. "If it's interesting, then

expression. He gathered the energy in Ardagan while

defined the kind of anger he

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

Sword Transmutation, gathering a massive amount of energy. It looked like a normal Sword Transmutation

doubled, and there was a different kind of sharpness in this strike. This was the combination of