System vs Rebirth

"Noel!" Anna called Noel from a distance while waving her hand. Noel turned out to be working among the people, supervising the place where they could build the second stage storage.

Noel stopped for a moment and turned around, finding Anna and Evan approaching him. Despite Evan's calm expression, his walking speed was faster than normal, indicating that he was eager to know about the runes.

Anna seemed to have done her job of luring him.

Noel gestured to the person next to him to take care of the job while he met these two.

"Welcome to my city, Duke Lorelei." Noel smiled.

"It's truly a surprising city. I guess you have managed to accomplish your first objective, eh? To think that Earl Ardagan has surpassed his father." Evan made a forced smile, showing that he was slightly annoyed that he actually fell for Noel's plan.

"Hahaha. Let's leave it at that." Noel didn't explicitly acknowledge it, so Evan didn't lose his face. He asked, "So, what does Duke Lorelei want with me?"

"Did you seriously ask that question? You were the one who invited me." Evan's eyebrows twitched. "You should be the one mentioning your intention first."

"Is that so? Then, I guess it's fine to disclose it. How about having a cup of tea a few times?"

"…" Evan paused for a moment. What Noel was trying to say was that he wanted to fight against him a couple of times. The number of fights indicated that this was a spar as well as the time for him to train.

Before replying to his invitation, Evan looked around and said, "Let's talk somewhere else."

"Of course. There is an empty building over there." Noel pointed at the half-destroyed building not far away from them.

As soon as the duke agreed, they moved to that building to prevent anyone from listening to them.

"I don't really mind fighting you two, but you should know that I can't hold back for a certain reason, right?" Duke Lorelei squinted his eyes, warning him that the fight wouldn't go according to plan.

"Of course. But that's only the first fight. We have a countermeasure about it." Noel explained.

"The first fight?" Evan pondered for a moment. The first fight was the most important, considering the result would be reported directly by the spies. If those people knew that Duke Lorelei had injured Noel and Anna badly enough, they would definitely feel relieved.

From the second fight onward, it seemed that Noel had a different plan in a way that the spies couldn't kill them. No, it could be said that it was Noel's invitation to eliminate the spies.

spies to report about the result of the first fight before getting exterminated. With that, no one would be able

if I were to agree to killing all those spies, what would you give me in return?" Evan asked. Getting suspected by the Royal Family or

he thought he had seen through Noel, the latter actually corrected the thought in his mind. "Who says I'm going to kill

great to be passed on. And if they knew that Noel and Anna were severely injured, they might take that chance to steal them. Of course, that would wait until he left since it was clear that the duke would be interested in

killing the spies

"Yes. With our injuries, the next battles will only count as training by yourself, isn't

it also meant that their next fight wouldn't be as big as the first one. He didn't care

if they spread the word for us. More and more nobles will know about it and

you have to be able to protect them before you can say that." Evan warned

not going to be the ones who protect

"So, you're planning to use me. With my interest, there is no way those people would steal it directly. However, you're forgetting something. You need something that can keep me here for a long time… And it's not like you're going to stay here when your territory is going to be attacked,

to stay in this city for a long time, so without him, the duke would lose his interest

inventions yourself? I have a Rune Book with me that you can use as a reference. If you can understand three out of those five inventions, I will let

Noel actually allowed him to take a close look at these inventions. While he

take a few months to complete, which meant Noel would get a free protector for this city. And the moment he headed to

Ardagan Family greatly. In exchange, he could be the first person to order

an order, he could just send a

these inventions, what would the main city have? The thought alone was enough to pique his excitement, fully knowing that Noel's city would be the first city where all the conveniences had been improved by runes. There was a chance that the things he could order were

the main city was still lacking in population and if they planned to supply people, it would be easy for them to be infiltrated. That was why before anyone sent a spy, they were planning to have a migration first and with a stricter requirement. He should be able to impose an information blackout for

interested in Noel's main city, they would resort to bribes or any other method in order to get an entry. There would even be the Rune Academy. When that one-year period had passed, it

first noble to be granted entry to his city,

to get all that, he had

confirm two things. "Tell me about these two.

in five to six months; the amount is close to the first stage. The last stage will be right before the

asked the second question. "Your student is

teaching her the method just yet. So, in three to four months, I think? After all, she is just barely starting to learn

learning from Noel since the time they were together in

lot of people would ask the duke about Anna's knowledge and he would confirm it based on this statement, removing any possibility of them knowing the fact

that even though Livia was his student, the Greenwood Kingdom's priority would be lower than his. Of course, he

one hand, he had planned to remain in the Stargaze Family for a long time. On the other hand, he didn't expect that he

becoming the guardian of this city, but I