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

Anna immediately approached him from behind

Noel hadn't done it yet.

affect him, but because he had never experienced this before, he was too late in releasing his energy to resist the control of the rune.

surrounding the duke. His black flame gushed

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

he is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it instantly and ended up throwing the

this sword but failed to knock

just to hold the sword here so that the Sword Arbiter wouldn't be able to stop Noel's

sword 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

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

above his head and released the residual energy 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, numerous people would have lost their lives

withstand all this power ended up breaking the ground underneath him as blood

Sword Transmutation and 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

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

While she wasn't injured, her hands

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

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.

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

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

only responsible for following your

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

had noticed something, so he permitted it. "If it's interesting, then sure. But

expression. He gathered

unable to do anything else other than swinging his sword. Now that he had defined the kind of anger he wanted 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 until Noel swung the

through the ground, smashing everything around it. Its power at least doubled, and there was a different kind of sharpness in this strike. This was the combination of the Sword Transmutation and