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.

energy even

underwent a change. There was a small ice shell covering his lower left arm,

Anna furrowed her eyebrows. 'No. It's

scale continued to grow. They were covering his entire left arm

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 chest,

to Ardagan. Maybe Ardagan has occupied the right part of his

no idea what kind of transformation a Spirit Transcendence would have, let alone one with two

took some time, but eventually, all the left part of his body was

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

Roar!

Roar!

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

exiting the forest that was located one kilometer from their

sense one Superior Demon among them. There were also at least

number could multiply if demons

in her current state. That was how much the transcendent path strengthened

because there was a burst of spiritual energy coming from her back.

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

energy was a must. As his body was releasing that energy, Anna could sense that the part that released the most energy

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

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