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.

crashing the ground underneath them. With this, they would have

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

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

but because he had never experienced this before, he was too late in releasing his energy to resist the control of the

black flame gushed out of his body and formed

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

from what I can see, he is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it instantly and ended up

sword but failed to

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

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

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

the sword above his head and released the residual energy to split 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

withstand all this power ended up breaking the ground underneath him as blood started to flow out

the sky before destroying each other. The destruction caused a

"So, this is the number one Arbiter, who is

injured, her

could see how the energy flowed in that sword. It was so smooth as though it had memorized the duke's

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

in that sword, but had he actually controlled his energy this whole time? If he didn't have to control his

Ardagan again and asked inwardly, 'You

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

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

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

a serious expression. He gathered the energy in

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

to do something that he couldn't do

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