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.

other words, Noel wanted the spies to report about the result of the first fight before getting exterminated. With that, no one would

return?" Evan asked. Getting suspected by the Royal Family or the Supreme Devil Organization would be annoying, so

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

why not killing the spies was a questionable

as training by yourself, isn't it?

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

So, it's fine if they spread the word for

them before you can

course. But we are not going to be the ones who protect those inventions."

directly. However, you're forgetting something. You

this city for a long time, so without him,

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 for those three. What do you

actually allowed him to take a close look at

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,

about these inventions would spread, which would benefit the Ardagan Family greatly. In exchange, he could be the first

detail. To place an order, he could just send a letter to Noel. Yet, Noel actually

inventions, what would the main city have? The thought alone was enough to pique his excitement, fully knowing that Noel's city would be

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

they would resort to bribes or any other method in order to get an entry. There would even be the Rune Academy. When that

be granted entry to his city, allowing him to be

that, he had to fall

to confirm two things. "Tell me about these two.

thousand people. The second one will be in five to

question. "Your student is the second princess of the

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

to know 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

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

would be lower than his. Of course, he had

remain in the Stargaze Family for a long time. On the other hand, he didn't expect that he would end up being the

to becoming the