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.

Noel wanted the spies to report about the result of the first fight before getting exterminated. With that, no one would be able to report about Noel and Anna's

agree to killing all those spies, what would you give me in return?" Evan asked. Getting suspected

latter actually corrected the thought in his mind. "Who says I'm going to kill them? The spies are useful because they

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

was why not killing the spies was

battles will only count as training by yourself, isn't it? No one dares to spy on

But it also meant that their next fight wouldn't be as big as the first one. He didn't care about Noel's aim in that spar. Instead, he focused on what he could get from it. "Suppose we fight like that. In that case, what are you going to

So, it's fine if they spread the word for us. More and more nobles will know about it and give us another

to protect them before you can say that."

going to be the ones who protect those inventions."

Noel's intention. "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

wrong. Noel didn't plan to stay in this city

those 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 you visit the main city and place your order

a close

which meant Noel would get a free protector for this city. And the moment he headed

which would benefit the Ardagan Family greatly. In exchange, he

order, he could just send a letter to Noel. Yet, Noel actually invited him to the

If this city had all 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

anyone sent a spy, they were planning to have a migration first and with a stricter requirement. He should be able to impose

and more people becoming interested in Noel's main city, they would resort to bribes or any other method in order to get an entry. There would

noble to be granted entry to his city, allowing him

that, he had to fall

two things. "Tell me about these two. How many

first one is in progress but will take a bit longer. There will be about two to three thousand people. The second one will be in five to six months; the amount

student

in three to four months, I think? After all, she is just barely starting to learn about runes, unlike

wanted to reinforce the thought of her learning from Noel since the time they were together in the Demon Banner Army. This way,

the duke about Anna's knowledge and he would confirm it based on this statement, removing any possibility

the Greenwood Kingdom's priority would be lower than his. Of course, he had to complete his own

he had planned to remain in the Stargaze Family for a long time. On the other

three fingers. "Alright. I can agree to becoming the guardian of this city, but I