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.

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

approached him from

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

duke widened his eyes in shock. 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

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

"Come forth, Flame Devil."

I can see, he is loyal, so…' The duke thought about it instantly and ended

this sword but failed to knock it

done enough just to hold the sword here so that the Sword Arbiter

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 for

was too late. The energy that had been contained within the scabbard

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

over thirty meters.

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

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

finally understanding the strength of the Sword Arbiter. "So, this is the number one Arbiter, who is

finally draws his sword." Anna smirked. While she wasn't injured, her

looking at the duke's sword. A normal person wouldn't have noticed anything special, but Noel could

But when he thought about it, Ardagan was just a normal sword

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

asked inwardly, 'You have known me for so long,

don't forget that I'm only

do something else. "Duke Lorelei.

so he permitted it. "If it's

a serious expression. He gathered the energy

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 program he

to do something that he couldn't do before,

massive amount of energy. It looked like

it. Its power at least doubled, and there was a different