System vs Rebirth

A few days later.

An old man had finally arrived at Loustein, and the first city he encountered was the half-destroyed city.

"Seriously? This is the city?" The Sword Arbiter couldn't help but furrow his eyebrows. "There are indeed some activities on the wall, but I don't think this city will last long. Let's check it out, shall we?"

The Sword Arbiter surprisingly walked to the city from the front even though his power was enough to sneak inside without being noticed.

Duke Lorelei was wearing a white military uniform and a big mantle hanging from his shoulders. There was a big Lorelei Family's crest on that mantle, so his appearance confused the soldiers a bit.

When the soldiers started to gather, Duke Lorelei stated out loud, "Open up soldiers! I am Evan Lorelei, the Duke of Lorelei. I hereby order you to open your gate."

"!!!" The soldiers panicked when they heard about the old man's status. However, they didn't receive any warning or see any carriage, so they were a bit skeptical about the old man's identity. There was a chance that he was lying.

Seeing the wariness of the soldiers, Duke Lorelei took out a badge and skillfully threw it up. The momentum was just enough to reach the top of the wall, allowing one of the soldiers to catch it.

It was the Arbiter Insignia as a symbol of their status. It caught the captain's attention, considering Noel had told him that a few important people were going to visit, but Noel didn't tell him who they were.

It appeared one of them was Duke Lorelei. So, the captain hurriedly opened the gate while making his way down to formally greet Duke Lorelei.

As soon as the gate was up, the captain politely placed his hand on his chest. "Good morning, Duke Lorelei. I am the captain of Luna City, Hansen. It's a pleasure to meet you. Lord Earl has informed me about your arrival, so I have to inform him first about your arrival."

"That's fine. I'm here just to look around." The Duke nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders. It seemed that because he had stepped down from his position, he really didn't bother to keep his image. "Why don't you introduce this city while your subordinates inform him about my arrival?"

"I understand, Sir." Hansen nodded in agreement and signaled his soldier to rush to the mayor's mansion. Meanwhile, Hansen extended his hand and politely said, "This way, Sir."

Evan couldn't help but look at the wall and say, "The city doesn't look that good."

"We are in the middle of rebuilding the city, Sir. We apologize for showing you such a disgraceful thing." Hansen bowed, but his tone was filled with hope as though he implied the condition of the city was going to be something in the past soon.

Evan was amused because it hadn't been that long for Noel to take over this territory, but it seemed that he had gained the trust of the people living in this land.

It was at that time that he noticed something different. He saw a carriage with a lot of rubble on the inside. But the carriage didn't have a horse or anything to pull it. Instead, they only had a steering wheel that actually controlled the movement of the front wheels. The back wheels just followed the movement.

Its speed wasn't that fast, but it was clearly faster than a horse pulling it.

"What is that?!" Duke Lorelei gasped in shock. "I can sense the Spiritual Energy fluctuation coming from that thing, but how does it move without being pulled?"

"That's… the first automatic carriage. I can't disclose any information about its mechanic, but I can say that the Lord is using the rune to make it possible. And the one who is steering it is the number one coachman this town has. He is still training and getting used to it." Hansen explained.

that big of a deal. Noel just used the Enhance Forward Rune to make it push forward. Since there was gravity that would make the carriage remain on the ground, the wheels would be

another. Of course, he only tried

Forward Rune, it only needed one Low Level Demon Crystal and a manual brake

alone was enough to shock Duke

were quite hard to produce, especially high-quality ones. So, if they could actually change the horses to the Demon Crystals, there would be

the Earl is doing a lot of things in

"Yes, Sir."

a lot of things to show me." Duke Lorelei smiled excitedly, wondering what kind of surprise he would get from this

can't disclose any secrets of the city. The only thing I can say is

everything." Duke Lorelei nodded without

noticed the platform that could go up the wall without any mechanism

thing?! The one that can go up the wall?!" Duke Lorelei

it. "Do you mean the one hanging

"Yes, that one."

it's a device that allows you to reach an elevation that you want. Currently,

does that

can't say anything other than Runes."

actually sold these innovations, he would without a doubt become the richest man in the world, surpassing his father who only reached the kingdom's level. "I'm more and more curious about this city. He must want to

just the gate to Lounstein. We are not the main

was confused, but if all these revolutionary things were implemented not in the main city, what kind

known, there would be a lot of people making their own creations. But for the time being, Noel would be able to monopolize them

ahead of the others, he had to find a way to procure these things and might be able to ask

a very exciting one." Duke Lorelei pointed at the front. "Alright.

a total of five inventions. The first three were the water storage, the Rune Elevator, and the

the first place that the captain brought him was none other

completion of the main storage, they had begun operating the main water storage, meaning that a lot of people would line up to get their portion

is… Are you in trouble or something?" Duke Lorelei asked Hansen about the people who lined up in front of

lord said that he wants to create a water storage system where every single building in this city has an unlimited amount of water without the need to go out to

when he was the family head, he remembered that the maid would come out to get

getting water

there would be a time when an ordinary family didn't have to do unnecessary things and spent that time to improve themselves. The kids might not need to help their parents and could go to school

someone who placed his bet on future generations, even if he couldn't see it, he could envision the wonderful land

time going to school, but if they could focus there. It meant that there would be a lot of smart

Noel should have isolated this territory first so that they

soldiers had informed Noel. There was someone coming in their direction at a

guard. His hand was already on his sword's