System vs Rebirth

Noel was sitting on the ground with a bunch of demon crystals in front of him.

"Are you ready?" Anna asked while unsheathing her blade. They had killed all the surrounding demons, but there was still a possibility that a demon would attack here.

"Yeah." Noel nodded as he gradually closed his eyes.

His hands reached for the demon crystals and began to absorb them.

Noel could feel the fullness of his spiritual energy reserve, but he continued to absorb more spiritual energy until the very limit.

The spiritual energy from Noel's body started leaking, a sign that he had gathered enough power. Absorbing more would just cause the spiritual energy in his body to get pushed out.

This leaking spiritual energy was different from normal spiritual energy. It had been dyed in Noel's color as a Spirit Grandmaster.

The spiritual energy was carried by the wind and started flying to the west.

It would take a few minutes, but the demons were very sensitive to the spiritual energy. The moment they sensed this abnormal spiritual energy, they became alert.

Aoo!

Roar!

The demons started communicating to each other, which eventually brought attention to the overlord of their area.

Anna wasn't aware of their presence just yet, but she had expected that there would be trouble following the breakthrough. Hence, she sharpened her instinct, picking all dangerous signs from the entire area.

to absorb the spiritual energy even though the excess energy was

There was a small ice shell covering his lower left arm, which

furrowed her eyebrows. 'No. It's

scale continued to grow. They were covering

they couldn't go much further, the ice scales expanded upward and downward.

spirit part? But his body becoming that of a spirit is due to Ardagan. Maybe Ardagan has occupied

that nothing went wrong. After all, she had no idea what kind of transformation a Spirit

eventually, all the left part of his body was

clothes, the spiritual energy

Roar!

Roar!

to the west. "So they have come… to think that the demons are able to sense things from far away. We have to take this into account. Then again, Felicia said

Noel and

demons started exiting the forest that was

could actually sense one Superior Demon among

number could multiply if demons from other

was something that Anna could easily handle in her current

will—" Her words abruptly stopped because there was a burst of spiritual energy

saw Noel had stopped absorbing the spiritual energy. All that spiritual energy was now being released

eyes. If he did that, it wouldn't

it seemed that this burst of energy was a must. As his body was releasing that energy, Anna could sense that

very slowly as if it were being integrated as a part of his body instead of a

it means for synchronization?' Anna thought. 'From the record that Grandfather and Sword Arbiter gave, the synchronization is a part where