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.

Blast, crashing the ground underneath them. With this, they would

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

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

the energy from the rune trying to affect him, but because he had never experienced this before, he was

forth, surrounding the duke. His black flame gushed out of his

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

what I can see, he is

but failed

here so that

everyone's surprise, the reason why he tossed the sword to Anna was because he wanted her to stop it. This way, he rotated his hand and reached out

The energy that had been

sword above his head and released the residual energy to split the Flame Devil

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

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

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

"So, this

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

sword. A normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could see how the energy flowed in that sword. It was so smooth as though it had

just a normal sword if he ignored his consciousness as a spirit. He had been living in this world for too long as a normal

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

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

don't forget that I'm only responsible

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

eyebrows. It seemed that Noel had noticed something, so he permitted it. "If

nodded with a serious 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 anger he wanted to have after the sparring with Anna, Ardagan should be able to control that flow of energy just by following the

something that he couldn't do before, especially a

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

at least doubled, and there was a