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.

Noel stomped the ground with his Rune Blast, crashing the ground underneath them. With this, they would have to fall for at least one

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

it yet. He created an Enhance Forward Rune to the

to affect him, but because he had never experienced this before, he was too late in

jumped forth, surrounding the duke. His black flame gushed

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

together? No, from what I can see, he is loyal, so…' The duke

Anna struck this sword but failed to knock

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

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 scabbard was released at once,

sword above his head and released the residual energy to

another wall-shaped trail that stretched for over thirty meters. If he ever unleashed

up breaking the ground underneath him as

Noel roared as he used the 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 people inside the town and strong enough for the

panted a few times, finally understanding the strength of the Sword Arbiter. "So, this is the number one Arbiter, who is known to

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

anything special, but Noel could see how the energy flowed in that sword. It was so smooth

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

The duke 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,

he looked at Ardagan again and asked inwardly, 'You have known

only responsible

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

his eyebrows. It seemed that Noel had noticed something, so he permitted

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

anything else other than swinging his sword. Now that he had defined the kind of anger he wanted

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

amount of energy. It looked like a normal Sword Transmutation until

there was