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.

the other hand, Noel continued to absorb the spiritual energy even though the excess energy

first, but Noel's body suddenly underwent a change. There

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

even more confused when the scale continued to grow. They

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

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

she had no idea what kind of transformation a Spirit Transcendence

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

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

Roar!

Roar!

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 or something… If that's the case, won't it be another way to lure

standing between Noel and those demons. "I

the forest that was located one kilometer from their

could actually sense one Superior Demon

multiply if demons from other areas

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

Her words abruptly stopped because there was a burst

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

he did that, it wouldn't

As his body was releasing that energy, Anna could sense that the

if it were being integrated

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