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.

absorb the spiritual energy even though the

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

that… a shell?' Anna furrowed her eyebrows. 'No. It's

continued to grow. They were covering his entire left

much further, the ice scales expanded upward and downward. Just like what happened to his chest, the

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

she had no idea what kind of transformation a

the left part of his body

she couldn't see the scales underneath his clothes, the spiritual energy that

Roar!

Roar!

"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

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

that was located one kilometer from their current

could actually sense one Superior Demon among them. There were also at least three hundred other

if demons from other areas also joined

was something that Anna could easily handle in her current state. That was how much the transcendent path

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

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

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

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

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

record that Grandfather and Sword Arbiter gave, the synchronization is a part where the human acts like