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.

about the result of the first fight before getting exterminated. With that, no one would

agree to killing all those spies, what would you give me in return?" Evan asked. Getting suspected by the Royal Family or the Supreme Devil Organization would be annoying, so he had to get

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

kill them?" Evan was startled. These inventions would be too 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

why not killing the spies was

raised a finger. "Yes. With our injuries, the next battles will only count as

made a huge scene, it would just look like he was trying to annoy Noel under the pretense of training. 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

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

you have to be able to protect them before you can

the ones who protect those inventions." Noel shook his

Evan to realize 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

city for a long time, so

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

actually allowed him to take a close look at these inventions. While he couldn't replicate it, he could

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

benefit the Ardagan Family greatly. In exchange, he could be

send

Noel's city would be the first city where all the conveniences had been improved by runes. There was

would be easy for them to be infiltrated. That was why before anyone sent a spy, they were planning to

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

was why he might be the first noble to be granted entry to his

to get all that, he had to fall for

"Tell me about these two. How many people do you

will be in five to six months; the amount is close to the first stage. The last stage will be right before the opening of the city. In total,

Lorelei nodded and asked the second question. "Your student is the second princess of the

method just yet. So, in three to four months, I think? After all, she is just barely starting to learn about runes, unlike this one. "

all of a sudden. So, Noel just wanted to reinforce the thought of her learning from Noel since the time they were together in the Demon Banner Army. This way, Anna had several years to learn from Noel, even if they were separated most

the duke about Anna's knowledge and he would confirm it based

even though Livia was his student, the Greenwood Kingdom's priority would be lower than

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

agree to becoming the guardian of this city, but I have