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.

ground underneath them. With this, they would have

understood this kind of movement. After all, Anna immediately approached him from behind once the duke lost his foothold. She would definitely

it yet. He created an Enhance

was too late in releasing his energy to resist the control of the rune. As a result, the Enhance Forward Rune tossed him

gushed out of his body and formed a giant avatar behind

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

No, from what I can see, he is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it

but failed to knock it

hold the sword here so that the Sword Arbiter

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

The energy that had been contained within the scabbard was released at once,

above his head

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 this kind of attack inside the town,

this power ended up breaking the

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

strength of the Sword Arbiter. "So, this is the number one Arbiter, who is known to be

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

duke's sword. A normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could see how the energy flowed in that sword. It was so smooth as though

living spirit. But when he thought about it, Ardagan was just a normal sword if he ignored his consciousness as a spirit. He

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

at Ardagan again and asked inwardly, 'You

only responsible

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

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

expression. He gathered

the past, he 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 should be able to control that flow of energy just

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

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

Sword Transmutation ran through the ground, smashing everything around it. Its power at least doubled, and there was a