System vs Rebirth

“Hu…” Noel exhaled while opening his eyes. Next to him was a giant ancient demon crystal that had been fully absorbed.

To show his resolve and answer, Noel had decided to absorb the crystal right in front of Anna.

He was a bit surprised by the amount of spiritual energy stored inside this demon crystal.

“How is it?” Anna asked.

“It’s too much. I feel like we don’t really need a lot of ancient demon crystals if we want to reach the spirit king. Then again, the limit for the ancient demon crystals is also not that many.

“This is just a rough calculation. Someone with a 90% absroption rate or above should be able to become a spirit king as long as they get enough ancient demon crystals.”

Noel glanced at the limit of his crystals in his status.

Name: Noel Ardagan

Low Quality Crystal – 5000/5000

Mid Quality Crystal – 3000/3000

Advanced Quality Crystal – 1500/1500

Peak Quality Crystal – 560/600

Superior Quality Crystal – 70/300

Ancient Quality Crystal – 1/50

His limit had been doubled, so normal people only had 25 crystals as their limit. While it was a huge number and that many ancient demons would be hard to find, it didn’t change the fact that it was possible to reach the spirit king.

He had a 100% absorption rate and double the amount of limit for each crystal. He believed he could become a spirit king if he absorbed ten crystals. If he included the next target and another crystal back home, it meant he had fulfilled 30% of the requirement.

Yes, Noel roughly calculated that he only needed 10 crystals to reach the spirit king stage. And that number might decrease if he filled up all his superior quality crystals.

Meanwhile, because Anna didn’t have double the limit and only had a 95% absorption rate, he thought she would need about 20 to 25 ancient demon crystals while filling the rest to the limit.

Despite such a huge difference, she only needed 10 to 15 more crystals than Noel. That was how much of an impact the ancient demon crystal had.

Noel said, “In any case, we should get going.”

“Yeah. We have gathered all the Superior Demon Crystals from all battlefields.” Anna nodded, pointing at a giant bag on the side. “The people from the Beast Kingdom will help with the transportation, and we’ll bring those crystals back with us after the second ancient demon.”

“Alright.” Noel nodded and signaled to the three elders to move on to the second location.

The second ancient demon was actually a tiger.

Unfortunately, this wasn’t a challenge for a single elder. If they had to fight it alone, they might need a lot of time to defeat the ancient demon.

However, the elders had wielded their power for so long that their strength was already equal to the ancient demon without using their spirits.

Even if they hadn’t mastered the spirits, they were simply bullying the ancient demon.

The Venom Overlord restrained the ancient demon with multiple summoned creatures. The snake wrapped the giant lion’s body, and the hydra restrained the demon’s limbs. No matter how hard the demon struggled, the hydra kept recovering its heads.

From the right side, the Arctic Queen was coming with its snowy domain. The giant lion released all kinds of attacks, but all of them were frozen before it could reach the Arctic Queen.

When the demon went berserk, the Phantom skillfully came in and used its wires to tie up its limbs right after the beast managed to overwhelm the two summoned creatures of the Venom Overlord.

Taken aback, the demon fell down, giving a big opportunity for the Venom Overlord and the Arctic Queen to take it down.

Noel and Anna were simply withstanding thirty thousand demons by themselves. Noel created a huge wall of ice while Anna formed a prison made of lightning pillars.

Both of them annihilated the army with their full strength, except for the True Spirit Body.

Since the elders managed to kill the ancient demon tiger so quickly, they immediately spread in all directions, swiftly cleaning up the battlefield.

It didn’t take more than an hour to actually kill the ancient demon as well as its massive army.

In these two hunts, they got a total of two ancient demon crystals as well as 45 superior demon crystals. It was a number that could threaten the entire kingdom, but in this place, they were simply annihilated by five people.

They returned with a huge bag of superior demon crystals. The rest of the crystals would be given to the Beast Kingdom so that they could strengthen their forces for the final battle against the demon king.

At the same time, seeing this kind of number actually put a fear in Noel’s heart. He wondered how terrifying the millions of demons that his ancestor once repelled were.

Not only the low level demons, there must be hundreds of superior demons alone along with more than ten ancient demons.

After almost a month staying in the Beast Kingdom, it was time for Noel and Anna to go back.

This time, they would be returning with the Arctic Queen, whose true appearance had been hidden.

Old Ru, Andreas, the Phantom, and the Venom Overlord were personally seeing them off. The overseer couldn’t go out since they were going with the Buffalo King, who had awakened a spirit as well.

“The diva said that when you need him, you only need to come to this place. It’s located on the southeast of this kingdom, which means you don’t have to do all the unnecessary things to reach the sanctuary anymore.” Old Ru handed a map to Noel. “She is currently focusing on mastering her spirit since the trip will be extremely dangerous even for her.”

“Thank you. I’ll keep that in mind.” Noel nodded with a serious expression.

“Come here again-nya. Tell me about the adventure-nya! It’s not fair if that fish is the only one knowing what kind of adventure you guys have-nya!” The Phantom patted Noel’s shoulder.

“Haha.” Noel chuckled.

“If you want a sparring, I’m up for it. I want to test my strength once I fully master my spirit power.” The Venom Overlord nodded. “But until then, be safe.”

Noel nodded.

Last but not least, Andreas brought him a letter. “You should read this on the way. According to him, this letter is already a thousand years old, so a lot of information might have ruined.”

Noel could see that the condition of the letter was already quite bad. At the same time, if they didn’t take care of this letter, the letter might have been completely destroyed by the passage of time.

Of course, the person Andreas mentioned was none other than the overseer.

“Alright. I will.” Noel waved his hand. “I’m grateful for helping us in the past thirty days. All of you, please be safe. I’ll definitely come again in the future.”