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.

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

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

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

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

forth, surrounding the duke. His black flame gushed

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

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

sword but failed to

done enough just to hold the sword here so that the Sword Arbiter wouldn't

to Anna was 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

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

his head and released the residual energy to split the Flame Devil

energy that fell upon him. That massive energy created another wall-shaped trail that stretched for over

withstand all this power ended up breaking the ground underneath him

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 is the number one Arbiter, who is known to be unparalleled

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

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

thought about it, Ardagan was just a normal sword if he ignored his consciousness as a spirit. He had been living in this world for too long

something. The duke had been 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 it flow as the sword had memorized it, wouldn't it mean he

inwardly, 'You have

But don't forget that I'm only

could do something else. "Duke Lorelei. If you don't mind, could

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

gathered the energy in Ardagan

had to control this energy, causing him to be unable to do anything else other than swinging his sword. Now that he had defined the kind of anger he wanted to have after the sparring with Anna, Ardagan

Noel to be able to do something that he couldn't

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

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