System vs Rebirth

"Ma—what?!" Anna was completely taken aback by the sudden question. She never thought that Noel would just forget about everything they discussed prior and talk about marriage.

"I'm just teasing you." Noel chuckled while looking away.

"Teasing me?" Anna squinted her eyes, noticing that Noel was lying. After they got together, Noel seemed to have a hard time lying to her. It must be that he didn't want to have any lie between them, but it was just hard to completely change one's character. So, this looking away action became Noel's method.

She approached Noel while glaring at him as if demanding an explanation.

"I'm just teasing you, alright? Just leave it at that." Noel scratched the back of his head, albeit Anna didn't like it.

"Have you forgotten that if there is any problem, we will be dealing with it together?" Anna sighed, slightly feeling disappointed. However, she didn't pursue this matter.

But that was the exact reason why Noel felt bad. He ended up resigning to his fate and apologized, "Sorry. The marriage part was just a foolish idea. I mean, if my mother visited you when we just got engaged, what would happen if I married you?"

"Ah!" Anna finally understood Noel's thought. The answer was clear. Noel had been chasing after his parents this whole time, so now that he had gotten a clue about it, he wanted to try to catch them and finally reunite with them.

However, Noel instantly realized how rude that plan was. Just for the sake of his parents, he actually wanted to sacrifice Anna and even married her for that cause. It was the rudest thing to their commitment. That was why Noel wanted to brush it off.

Surprisingly, Anna chuckled and said, "You know what? I like it when you show me how strong you are and how perfect you can become. But when you are making mistakes like this… you know, I love you even more."

"Mhmm?!" Noel was dumbfounded as if he couldn't believe what he had just heard.

To Anna, Noel was a special existence that was capable of dealing with everything. But seeing him making a mistake like this somehow made him appear down to earth. She could relate to him a bit more and that was probably why she actually liked him more.

They were not perfect and might make mistakes. But the point was that they shouldn't make a mistake, but to actually solve their mistake and become better next time.

Though, Noel was tongue-tied, noticing that Anna got all the momentum in their conversation. Still, he did feel happy when she said it.

"Thanks."

Anna smiled and changed the topic or it would just become even more awkward while bringing the map to him. "In any case, we should get back to work. This is the map."

From the looks of it, there seemed to be about seven villages and one city at the edge of his territory. It would be hard to get the number of people living in his territory, but he estimated there were at least three to four thousand people living in those places.

And with the additional ten thousand people who were going to live here, they should have enough people to gather a huge amount of points over time.

"By the way, what's the condition of the territory next to us?" Anna asked.

"You want me to help the other territories?"

"Why not? I don't see a problem as long as they are not hostile."

easily is a bit… problematic." Noel thought for a moment. "Well, if I want, I can probably do that. But it will take

that out after solving the problem within

take care of the details later. For now, I think

Honor Point: 487 Pts

Skill Point: 10 Pts

I'm attacked like last time and require more Honor Points

contemplated for a moment, carefully measuring the pros

runes from all five systems to be considered as

accustomed to, but this time, he also

[Career: Rune Knight]

Attack Rune, Defensive Rune, Utility Rune, and Movement Rune. Master 5 Runes of

(5/5), Defensive Rune (5/5),

Rune Swordsman to

Name: Noel Ardagan

Job: Rune Knight

Weapon: Ardagan Sword

Demon Hunter Medal, Elite

Honor Point: 23 Pts

Skill Point: 0 Pts

This information

suddenly raised his hand and formed a rune in front

knowing that Noel wouldn't hurt her. She

and examined the new rune. 'What is this? I don't think I have seen this rune before. The complexity… doesn't

not many records regarding the Advanced Rune. In fact, Noel only

Heisk's Spirit Seal resided. It actually integrated itself with Heisk's

Noel gradually opened his eyes.

was still gasping in shock because this was the first time she saw a rune being integrated into

"All I can remember is that I'm drawing a rune according to the information flowing into my

you just say increasing the conversion rate?! And you said it's simple?!" Anna was dumbstruck. She slammed the table and shouted,

know.

was a bit hesitant to say that he should do it to her and anyone else. That rune would definitely become something that everyone would want. And she could understand

have to understand that rune a bit more. But I don't think a

of her head and hurriedly replied, "You don't have to

boosts my conversion rate to one hundred percent. The only reason for him to forge it by sacrificing his eternal one hundred percent conversion rate is that if,

you are the only person who

descendants." Noel nodded. "Well, the one with Ardagan. And since Ardagan won't activate without the blood of the Ardagan Family, so yeah… it

the gravity of this ability. On the one hand, it looked like the others could do the same, but it sacrificed their own power to boost their successor's ability.

would be enslaved and controlled.

about it. In fact, I can finally understand why you