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.

crashing the ground

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

it yet. He

He could 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 rune. As a result, the Enhance Forward Rune tossed him in Anna's direction, closing the gap between

black flame gushed out of his body and formed a giant avatar

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it

Anna struck this sword but failed

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

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,

his head and

That massive energy created another wall-shaped trail that stretched for over thirty meters. If he ever unleashed this kind

had to withstand all this power ended up breaking the ground underneath

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 gust to destroy

finally understanding the strength of the Sword Arbiter. "So, this

injured, her

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 in that sword.

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 in this

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

inwardly, 'You have known me for so long, do you think it's

only responsible for following your usual

the case…' Noel smiled, realizing that he could do something else. "Duke

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

a serious expression. He gathered

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

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

of energy. It looked

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