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

from behind once the

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

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

surrounding the duke. His black flame gushed out of his body

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

is

sword but failed to

to hold the sword here so that the Sword

to stop it. This way, he rotated his hand and reached out for the sword

it was too late. The energy that had been contained within

sword above his head and released the

stretched for over thirty meters. If he ever unleashed this kind of attack inside

Noel who had to withstand all this power ended up breaking the ground underneath him

Sword Transmutation and released 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 grass within ten

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

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

anything special, but Noel could see how

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

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

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

I'm only responsible

do something else. "Duke Lorelei.

so he permitted it. "If it's interesting, then sure. But if it's

a serious expression. He gathered the energy in Ardagan while

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 the

something that he couldn't do before,

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

everything around it. Its power at least doubled, and there was a different kind of sharpness in this strike. This was the combination of the Sword Transmutation