System vs Rebirth

Noel sat down in a lotus pose, following Shale's instruction.

"Take a few deep breaths and start closing your eyes."

Noel took one deep breath while closing his eyes before stabilizing his heartbeat, which was probably the purpose of his instruction.

"You only need to answer this in your heart. First question, do you have anything you want to accomplish?" Shale asked with a soothing tone to help Noel keep his calm.

Noel recalled all the memories that had happened not long ago. The Royal Family executed his parents, seized his property and sent him to this place because they believed he would die facing those monsters.

Noel wanted to take his revenge against the Royal Family. Yet, he felt something was wrong with this desire. His heart was asking him, 'What if all those stuff never happened? What was your dream if you still had your family, wealth and status?'

Noel's heart skipped a beat when he found this question. In the past, he was just a normal nobleman that had average talent and no desire. He just followed whatever happened.

He always believed that he would succeed his father's position sooner or later and would take a wife before leading the same ordinary life like his father.

This was just an ordinary dream of an ordinary noble child. Everything soon changed when the Royal Family did all that stuff.

'I see. Desire huh… I don't truly have a goal that I would continue to chase for as long as I'm alive. All my desires are related to my current life… I have yet to change to the new me… Just following the nature course. If somehow the Royal Family restores my family, will I have another desire?

'On the other hand, what if I forget about my family, the conflict, my hatred…? What am I? I am just an empty shell. That desire is the one that fulfills me for the rest of my life. So, what is the desire that I Noel Ardagan personally has? Something that is unrelated to my hatred, my family, or my enemies…

'My desire is…'

While he was thinking, Noel didn't realize that something was happening outside his body.

Shale's eyes opened wide. Sweats were covering his eyes despite the

body was emitting a dim blue

'An average person needed years of meditation to find their own desire, their spirit… Even the emerging genius, Anna Stargaze is said to require three days to awaken her spirit. How is this possible? He can

remembered how the commander wanted to protect him. He was

red light emitting from the red mark on his

staring at Noel in horror. 'How can he make a spirit pact within a few minutes? Even I need

unaware of what was happening outside his body. His consciousness had fallen so

didn't feel anything in

finding his desire, a bright light started illuminating the darkness, bringing him to a plain white

this? Shouldn't I be in the training ground?" Noel looked left and right,

sound suddenly echoed inside his

his eyes as his brain started to hurt. If it was a sound from the outside, he felt

disappeared, Noel seemed to understand the meaning of that

Confused, Noel slowly turned around while gulping down. Suddenly, he found a red sword

Ardagan." Although a bit hesitant, Noel tried to approach

Noel's action, the sword released a blazing flame that gradually moved toward

same time, Noel's body started glowing as a snowflake symbol shone on

something cold began to spread from his right chest. He lowered his head and found

Noel frowned, not understanding what was going

that exchange clash, another high-pitched sound echoed directly in his

enduring the pain.

cut down whoever you want to cut and

The Icy Spirit

is supposed to