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.

Noel continued to absorb the spiritual energy even though the excess energy was leaking from

at first, but Noel's body suddenly underwent a change. There was a small ice shell

her eyebrows.

continued to grow. They were covering

their growth stopped in the middle of his chest as if they had hit an invisible wall. Since they couldn't go much further, the ice scales expanded upward and downward. Just like what happened to

his body becoming that of a spirit is due to Ardagan. Maybe Ardagan has occupied the right part of his body, considering Heisk's

had no idea what kind of transformation a Spirit Transcendence would have, let alone

eventually, all the left part of his body was covered by the ice

though she couldn't see the scales underneath his clothes, the

Roar!

Roar!

Felicia said that the spiritual energy acts like gas. It might

Noel and

the forest that was located one kilometer from

expression turned serious because she could actually sense one Superior Demon among them. There were also at least three hundred

could multiply if demons from

number was something that Anna could easily handle in her

case, I will—" Her words abruptly stopped because there was

spiritual energy was now being released from his body, causing a burst that produced a shock wave in all

he did that, it wouldn't

of energy was a must. As his body was releasing that energy,

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

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