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.

not enough." Noel stomped the ground with his Rune Blast, crashing the ground underneath them. With this, they would have to fall for at

approached him from behind

it yet. He created an Enhance Forward Rune

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 late in

the duke. His black flame gushed out of his body and formed a giant avatar

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

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

struck this sword but failed to knock it

enough just to hold the sword here so that the Sword

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

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

duke swung the sword above his head and released the residual

him. That massive energy created another wall-shaped trail that stretched for over thirty meters. If he ever unleashed this kind of attack inside the

this power ended up breaking the

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 meters

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

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

have noticed anything special, but Noel could see how

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 for too long as

their battle earlier, Noel noticed 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 could focus

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

only responsible for

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

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

nodded with a serious expression. He gathered the energy

defined the kind of anger he wanted to have after

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

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

smashing everything around it. Its power at least doubled, and there was a different