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 to fall for at

from behind once

duke, Noel hadn't done it yet.

this before, he was too late in releasing his energy to

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

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

attack both of us together? No, from what I can see, he is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it instantly and

sword but failed to

just to hold the sword here so that the

why he tossed the 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

energy that had been contained within the scabbard was released at once, knocking

swung the sword above his head and released the

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

had to withstand all this power ended up breaking the ground

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

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

she wasn't injured, her hands still felt

normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could see how the energy flowed

just a normal sword if

If he didn't have to control

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

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

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

so he permitted it. "If it's

expression. He gathered the energy

causing him to be unable to do anything else other than swinging his sword. Now that he had defined the kind of

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

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

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