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

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

it yet. He created an Enhance Forward Rune to

had never experienced this before, he was too late in releasing his energy to resist the control of the rune. As a

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

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

he 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

struck this sword but

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

way, he rotated his hand and reached out for the sword behind

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

head

that stretched for over thirty meters. If he ever unleashed this kind of attack inside the town, numerous

Noel who had to withstand all this power ended up breaking the ground underneath him as blood started to flow out

up knocking the sword energy from the duke and flew into the sky before destroying each other. The destruction caused a shock

Noel panted a few times, finally understanding the strength of the Sword Arbiter. "So, this

wasn't injured, her hands still felt numb from the energy released by the

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

was something different from Ardagan, who was a living spirit. But when he thought about it, Ardagan was just a normal sword if he ignored his consciousness as a spirit. He had been living

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

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

don't forget that I'm only

Noel smiled, realizing that he could do something

eyebrows. It seemed that Noel had noticed something, so he permitted it. "If it's interesting, then sure. But if it's not,

serious expression. He gathered the energy in Ardagan while utilizing the

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

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

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

doubled, and there was a different kind of sharpness in this strike. This was the combination of the Sword Transmutation and