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.

the ground underneath them. With this, they would have to fall

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

yet. He created an

his 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

jumped forth, surrounding the duke. His black flame gushed out of

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

going 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

struck this sword but failed

hold the sword here so that the Sword Arbiter wouldn't

stop it. This way, he rotated

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

same time, the duke swung the sword above his head and

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

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

Arbiter. "So, this is the number one Arbiter, who is known to be unparalleled under Spirit

smirked. While she wasn't injured, her hands

took a deep breath, looking at the duke's sword. A normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could see

it, Ardagan was just a normal sword if he ignored his consciousness as a spirit.

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

looked at Ardagan again and asked inwardly, 'You have known me for so long, do you

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

case…' Noel smiled, realizing that he could do something else. "Duke Lorelei. If you don't mind,

had noticed something, so he permitted it.

expression. He gathered the energy in Ardagan while

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

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

of energy. It looked like a normal Sword Transmutation

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