System vs Rebirth

The light pillar expanded for more than a hundred meters, engulfing all the demons in the vicinity.

There was an explosion of spiritual energy that shook the area. The energy coming from it was much higher than what Noel used previously.

The spider released her own spiritual energy to stop Noel's attack, but it was too late. By the time the light pillar disappeared, it had devastated all the demons around Noel.

All Advanced Level Demons or lower were dead. Some Peak Level demons located at the edge of the pillar managed to survive, but there was one Superior Demon that was located right next to Noel. It barely withstood the Executioner Rune.

The Superior Demon was covered in injuries, and Noel appeared right after, killing it with a single slash.

Still, Noel was within the light pillar as well. There were some burn marks on his body due to that Executioner Rune, but he was mostly fine due to his power as a Spirit Transcendence. The only thing that wasn't fine were his clothes.

His top was already destroyed completely. His shoes and the bottom part of his pants were gone, leaving only the tattered upper pants, which didn't look much different than shorts.

"Even I don't really want to fight naked. Besides, without Heisk, this temperature will definitely freeze me." Noel smiled wryly. This was still winter after all.

Noel looked around. He noticed that there were only about a few hundred demons left around him. The Ancient Demon Spider was also injured.

While his condition wasn't that good either, the chance of defeating the demon spider was extremely high in the current situation.

The spider was glaring at Noel. She never thought Noel would be this much of a threat in just a week. It was simply unbelievable.

However, Noel wasn't the only one that she had to pay attention to. On the other side, Anna had been fighting fifteen thousand demons.

The current strongest captain of the Demon Banner Army, Shale, was famous after defeating a thousand demons by himself.

His achievement was pale in comparison to what Anna was currently doing.

Anna had actually taken down at least six thousand demons by herself. There wasn't a single scratch on her body.

If this continued, Anna could kill all of them without even using her True Spirit Body.

In addition, she utilized her power accordingly and managed to become a wall that blocked all these demons.

Of course, Noel's plan was part of her success. His plan was to lure the spider in so that those big legs became another wall that blocked half the access to Noel. That was why Anna just had to block the other half, which was possible with her current strength.

Noticing the progress of the battle, the spider realized that she had changed places with Noel, from the hunter to the hunted.

The spider started to get enraged. She couldn't allow this situation to continue.

"!!!" Noel frowned, feeling something ominous about the spider.

Even Anna couldn't help but look at the spider. Her instinct actually changed the threat level of this spider.

"Noel, stop her! She is becoming more dangerous!" Anna shouted, transmitting her voice with spiritual energy. "Tsk."

But that distraction also caused the demons to push her back, so she had to focus back on stopping these demons.

"What is that?" Noel was stunned for a second. He saw a glowing green vein appear on the bottom of the spider.

The vein actually multiplied and spread in all directions, including the spiders' legs. The body of the spider started glowing the same color as the vein.

With the addition of Anna's warning, Noel finally noticed what was actually going on, believing that this situation had become more dangerous than he expected.

Noel jumped into the air.

Divine Slash.

The crescent-shaped sword strike flew toward the spider, but it was too late. As if showing that it was successful, there was an eruption of green colored energy from the spider's body. In addition, the spider was also shooting its poison ray.

The poison ray clashed with the Divine Slash. The ice element from the slash started freezing the ray again, but the ice actually melted at a faster rate, rendering the ice element useless. The Anger emotion he planted in the slash was also barely hanging on against the tremendous energy from the poison ray.

The Divine Slash gradually disappeared, getting overwhelmed by the strength the poison ray had.

The poison ray continued its way toward Noel.

"Kh!" Noel hurriedly used his ability to protect himself, but the poison ray ended up launching him a hundred meters away.

Bam!

Noel let out a groan. Some parts of his body turned pale as Noel barely covered those parts with his ice in order to stop the poison.

Now that he was farther away, he could see the current state of the spider more clearly.

Those veins had spread to all parts of the spider's body, increasing the spider's strength to a whole new level.

"What kind of strength is that? Don't tell me… is it a demon equivalent to True Spirit Body?" Noel frowned. "There aren't a lot of records regarding Ancient Demons or even Demon Kings.

"So I know close to nothing. Still, unlike the True Spirit Body, it doesn't seem to change the appearance of the demon. Instead of transformation, it looks like the veins just increase the spider's overall abilities…

"The energy starts to feel unstable as well… No, more accurately, it's like rampaging energy… If I have to describe the appearance of the spider in a simple way… I think I will call it Berserk State." Noel muttered.

Noel wanted to observe it a bit longer, but the spider actually tilted its head to the side, targeting Anna next.

In that instant, the ice erupted from Noel's body as an ice crown was formed on top of his head.

He didn't really want to use the True Spirit Body since he could take his time against the Ancient Demon. The berserk state was one thing, but the audacity of this spider to target Anna was something unforgivable to Noel.

Even if it meant the battle would last for no more than thirty minutes, it didn't matter anymore.

Noel planned to kill this demon right away.