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.

continued to absorb the spiritual energy even though

change. There was a small

a shell?' Anna furrowed her eyebrows.

more confused when the scale continued to grow. They were covering his entire left arm before

invisible wall. Since they couldn't go much further, the ice scales expanded upward and downward. Just like what happened to his chest, the ice scale only covered the left

Maybe Ardagan has occupied the right part of his body, considering Heisk's spirit seal is located in

idea

the left part of his body was

clothes,

Roar!

Roar!

furrowed her eyebrows while turning 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 that the spiritual energy acts like gas. It might get carried by the wind

the side, standing between Noel and those demons. "I have to kill

forest that was located

one Superior Demon

if demons from other areas

this number was something that Anna could easily handle in her current state.

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

and saw Noel had stopped absorbing the spiritual energy. All that spiritual energy was now being released from his body, causing a

did that, it wouldn't be weird if the demons from other

body was releasing that energy, Anna could sense that the part that released the

it were being integrated as a part of

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