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.

was gravity that would make the carriage remain on the ground, the wheels would be the ones doing everything. In other words, Noel had just changed the

come into this city, he had been creating one invention after another. Of course, he only tried everything before thinking which one would be the best for the city

one Low Level Demon Crystal and a manual

enough

could actually change the horses to the Demon

of things

"Yes, Sir."

Duke Lorelei smiled excitedly, wondering what kind of surprise he would get from this

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

everything." Duke Lorelei nodded without

Hansen could continue, Duke Lorelei noticed the platform that could go up the wall without any mechanism due to his

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

you mean the one hanging on

"Yes, that one."

an elevation that you want. Currently, it's used to bring a few workers up the wall along

How does that

anything other than Runes." Hansen

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 use

sorry, Sir. We are just the gate to

implemented not in the main city, what kind

would be a lot of people making their own creations. But for the time being, Noel

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

Lorelei pointed at the front. "Alright. Let's continue and

five inventions. The first three were the water storage, the Rune

place that the captain brought him was none other than

they had begun operating the main water storage, meaning that a

you in trouble or something?" Duke Lorelei asked Hansen about the people who lined up

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

he remembered that the maid would come out to get a lot of water for daily use. If what Hansen

time getting water anymore, and they could spend that time doing

ordinary family didn't have to do unnecessary things and spent that time to improve themselves. The kids might not need to help

placed his bet on future generations, even if he couldn't see it, he could

stage, ordinary children would have a hard time going to school, but if they could focus there. It meant that

fact, Noel should have isolated this territory first so that they couldn't study

There was someone

help but raise his guard. His hand was already on his sword's handle, ready to cut this insolent