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."

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

that out after solving the problem within our territory."

For now, I think about making a breakthrough in rune." Noel opened his

Honor Point: 487 Pts

Skill Point: 10 Pts

The points should be enough to advance all the runes required to become a Rune Knight. However, it's barely enough. If I'm attacked like last time and require more Honor Points or Skill Points

moment, carefully measuring the

runes…" Noel listed all the runes from all

was something Noel had grown accustomed to, but this time,

[Career: Rune Knight]

of a rune: Support Rune, Attack

(5/5), Attack Rune (5/5), Defensive Rune (5/5), Utility Rune (3/5),

job from Rune Swordsman

Name: Noel Ardagan

Job: Rune Knight

Weapon: Ardagan Sword

Medal: Demon Hunter Medal, Elite

Honor Point: 23 Pts

Skill Point: 0 Pts

another wave of information flowing into him. This information was far different

reality, Noel suddenly raised his hand and formed a rune in front of

back but soon dropped her guard, knowing that Noel wouldn't hurt her.

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

are not many records regarding the Advanced Rune. In fact, Noel only publicized a few of them in

moving toward Noel's chest, where Heisk's Spirit Seal resided. It actually integrated itself with Heisk's

opened

shock because this was the first time she saw a

something weird?" Noel frowned. "All I can remember is that I'm drawing a rune according to the information flowing into my mind. If I'm not wrong, that

She slammed the table and shouted, "Do you know what kind of ridiculous

know. But If I keep quiet about it, no one will know. And

to say that he should do it to her and anyone else. That rune would definitely become something that everyone would want. And she

later since I have to understand that rune a bit more. But I don't think a lot of people will receive this kind of rune, considering it's

hurriedly replied,

one hundred percent conversion rate is that if, in the future, I want my child to

you are the

nodded. "Well, the one with Ardagan. And since Ardagan won't activate

it sacrificed their own power to boost their successor's ability. And that level of power would

that the Ardagan users could do it infinitely, they would

fact, I can finally understand why you never drank