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.

enough." Noel stomped the ground with his Rune Blast, crashing the ground underneath them. With this, they would have to

of movement. After all, Anna immediately approached him from behind once the duke lost his

duke, Noel hadn't done it yet. He created an

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

the duke. His black flame gushed out

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

what I can see, he is loyal, so…'

Anna struck this sword but failed to knock

sword here so that the Sword Arbiter wouldn't

it. This way, he rotated his hand and reached out for the sword behind his shoulder. It was at this moment that

late. The energy that had been contained within the scabbard

swung the sword above his head and released the residual energy to

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

this power ended up breaking the ground underneath him as blood started to flow

released it upward. The Sword Transmutation ended up knocking the sword energy from the duke and flew into the sky before destroying each other.

"So, this is the number one Arbiter, who is known

wasn't injured, her hands

but Noel could see how the energy

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 in this world

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 on anything else other than controlling

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

that I'm only

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

so he permitted it. "If it's interesting, then sure. But if

gathered the energy in

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

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

right. Noel was using the Sword Transmutation, gathering a massive amount of energy. It looked like a normal Sword Transmutation until Noel

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