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.

fight before getting exterminated. With that, no one would be able to report about

those spies, what would you give me in return?" Evan asked. Getting suspected by the Royal

actually corrected the thought in his mind. "Who says I'm going to 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 he left since it was clear that the duke would be interested in

killing the spies was

as training by yourself, isn't

the duke 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,

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

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

are not going to be the

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

duke wasn't wrong. Noel didn't plan to stay in this city for a long time, so

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

close look at these inventions. While he couldn't replicate it, he could

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

spread, which would benefit the Ardagan Family greatly. In exchange, he could be the first person to order

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

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 a few months

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

first noble to be granted entry to his

all that, he had to fall

that, he had to confirm two things. "Tell me about these two. How many

to three thousand people. The second one 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, we will have fifteen thousand

student is

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

all kinds of runes all of a sudden. So, Noel just wanted to reinforce the thought of her learning from Noel since the time they

about Anna's knowledge and he would confirm it based on this

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

Stargaze Family for a long time.

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