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"Th... That can't be?"
At that moment, every onlooker stared blankly at what was happening in the center of the arena.
Not only the spectators, but even the members of the Ishtar Familia were stunned, unable to react at once.
Freyja herself was especially dumbfounded.
One could tell from her build what Freyja excelled at.
Among the five basic attributes—Strength, Endurance, Dexterity, Agility, and Magic—Freyja's greatest specialty was Strength, followed by Endurance.
Although Freyja's Strength had yet to reach the highest S rank, a Level 5 first-class adventurer with extremely high Strength, wielding a first-class weapon and striking with all her might, could easily shatter even solid bedrock and sturdy steel.
Yet Noah had effortlessly neutralized such an attack.
With a single finger.
Noah had raised just one finger and blocked Freyja's full-force axe strike.
That sight left everyone present in shock, followed by trembling awe.
"Is that guy's Endurance really that high?"
Clearly, everyone present attributed that unbelievable scene to Noah's extraordinarily high Endurance attribute.
What they did not know was that the reason Noah could directly block that enormous battle axe with his body was not because of his Endurance attribute, but because of Noah himself.
There was only one reason he could so easily block the massive battle axe's slash.
It was Eternal Reinforcement, made possible through the Lingge of the Third Perpetual Motion Machine.
Unlike when he had used Reinforcement Sorcery in the past, Noah's current reinforcement was a complete enhancement from the inside out.
Previously, when Noah used Reinforcement Sorcery, applying it to his arms enhanced his arm strength, while applying it to his legs enhanced his leg strength. Each aspect of the reinforcement was separate.