System vs Rebirth

The rune produced a blinding light that engulfed everything within a hundred meters of the rune before shooting into the sky.

"Oi, oi, oi!" Anna gasped while rushing away, barely avoiding it. Her instinct was telling her that she would survive this attack, but this wide-range attack's main purpose was annihilation.

When the pillar of light disappeared, Anna dropped her jaw to the ground.

"Is this for real…" Anna looked at the devastation that the rune brought. The ground cracked and a portion of it actually evaporated. The beasts looked like they were fried from the inside, their skin and flesh were melting. Out of seven hundred demons, only less than a hundred survived.

Only those Advanced Level Demons or above had the chance to actually withstand such abilities. Even then, the Advanced Level Demons sustained heavy injuries and were even close to dying.

"In my previous life, there were only a few Advanced Level Runes. However, those high level runes are classified. There isn't much information about them because Noel has been keeping them a secret. Even I only hear the rumors about their power.

"So this is the true power of the Advanced Runes… It's actually much stronger than the rumors." Anna felt goosebumps. "The high level runes can affect the battle between Spirit Transcendence or even Spirit King. I guess it's not exaggerating. If Noel uses this when he is a Spirit Transcendence Expert, he will be able to use this rune multiple times and kill at least a thousand each time. But… I don't think it's sufficient, considering we might have to fight against millions of demons."

Anna gulped down. She finally understood what kind of calamity the demons brought one thousand years ago. Noel alone wouldn't be able to change such a thing.

"That's why Noel doesn't necessarily destroy all his opponents. He still needs them if he wants to resist the demon's calamity. And more importantly, a Demon King might get involved in it." Anna bit her lips.

"Still… Noel's ancestor is good to be able to defeat a Demon King, but his wife is able to lead the army of a single family to actually resist a million demons. Even though the Ardagan family was destroyed, it didn't change the fact that she managed to do it… especially with the fact that most of their soldiers were sent to both her husband and her brother.

"Being able to lead only several thousand people and resist a million demons…" Anna clenched her fists, wondering if she could do that.

Even though she wanted to think about it a bit more, there was a more important thing to do.

"Noel!" Anna hurriedly checked Noel's condition.

"Ha… Ha…" Noel was breathing heavily. He had exhausted 75% of his spiritual energy just by using the techniques and rune above his level.

The result was pretty great, but after calculating the pros and cons, Noel deemed using this rune when he was only a Spirit Grandmaster rather foolish.

"The Three Purity Swords and Divine Slash aside, I have to think of a way of utilizing the Executioner Rune… maybe like a trap or something. Just placing a hundred of those traps, I can kill a hundred thousand demons or something. It's going to change the battlefield if I make a lot of them." Noel fell silent for a moment.

Looking at the rest of the demons, Noel couldn't help but say, "Sorry, you have to take down the Superior Demons. They are already heavily injured, so finish them fast. I'll take care of the rest of the demons."

"This is going to be hard." Anna frowned. Because of the energy fluctuation coming from them, more and more demons emerged from the giant building. "More of them are coming. Should we retreat first?"

still manageable. Once our energy is only 10% left, we'll retreat." Noel

mind if I use my transformation, right?" Anna

"Yep." Noel nodded.

as the lightning began to appear all around her. Her blond hair turned white.

about to chop the heavily injured

as if saying they didn't have a lot of time as the demons were

finish line, you have to take one step at a time. Don't worry… I will always be by

body shook before a

have my own pride. If you're going to walk besides me, I will

the gap between her and

her blade, cut the centipede, and landed on the

down, two more to go." Anna saw the demons

flown into the sky with his Phoenix Wings and

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

explosion, Anna saw the narrow gap Noel had prepared for

made a zigzag movement, using the explosions as a wall to

the Superior Demon. The latter tried to swallow her, but Anna wasn't afraid of being

released all the built-up energy in one go, causing an explosion inside the centipede's

was the lightest. She

to the soul residing inside her

stood in her way to block Anna, even if it cost them their

back like she was an

it was released, her entire body actually flew forth as though both her

spiritual energy at the tip of the sword. All kinds of defenses were broken, and even their bodies were

his targets to the Peak Level Demons that tried to form a barrier. At the very least, he

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

retreat to avoid the blast, causing the barrier they

thrust,

same hard body that withstood Noel's attack to block