System vs Rebirth

A moment ago.

The Gem Lord was sitting in front of Noel with a gentle smile on his face. "Say, what do you think if I retire in this place? I don't really need the mine. Just give me enough materials and money to do my research, and I'm set."

Noel raised his eyebrows. The Gem Lord was basically saying that he wanted to serve him. Originally, the transaction was there to get his help, but it seemed that the Gem Lord had seen the future of the Ardagan family and decided to side with them.

The Gem Lord was the eldest among the elders in the Tower Association. His strength and his knowledge were among the greatest.

For the Ardagan family, accepting his plea would mean paying a little bit more than the original agreement in exchange for his help. That was right. As long as the Gem Lord remained here, they would get yet another peak grandmaster. He might be weaker than Milfa, but the gap between them was not big. More importantly, the explosion gems were extremely useful for city defense. Hence, the Gem Lord's value actually surpassed Milfa.

When Noel heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure about this? You should know that this city could be said to be the most dangerous place in the kingdom."

Lounstein was definitely the target of everyone. So, the Gem Lord might have to fight again and again.

However, the Gem Lord made a genuine smile as though he had thought this through. "As long as you don't push away this old man."

Noel blinked his eyes a few times. There was a bit of disbelief since he never imagined that he would get this kind of harvest from the battle.

Noel stood up firmly, implying his answer.

Seeing this, the Gem Lord pushed his chair to the side and took a step back. After that, he fell on one knee while saying, "Jayden Rivermore would like to serve Earl Noel Ardagan."

"I accept your loyalty, Jayden Rivermore. From now on, you are my vassal."

"I greet my lord." The Gem Lord lowered his head.

"I'll make sure that you won't regret your decision today, Gem Lord."

"I have passed my mantle as an elder, my Lord. If you don't mind, you can just call me Old Jade. People usually call me that." Jayden smiled.

"Sure, Old Jade." Noel smiled, knowing that the name probably came from removing two characters from his real name.

While the Gem Lord submitted to Noel, the Water Lord had no intention of serving anyone. However, he was implying that he didn't mind some collaboration between Lounstein and the Silica Valley, which was a good opportunity for Noel. The Water Lord could get a lot of runes from Noel, while the latter could get a lot of medicinal herbs from the Silica Valley. Those herbs would be useful for Khalid. It was due to his medicine that a lot of people didn't die in the last war.

The Demon Banner Army had also retreated from Lounstein. Noel had promised Clara a bunch of stuff for her help as well as giving something back to the Zero Squad that had taken care of him this whole time.

wanted the heads of the two new Devil Saints. It

his Demon Barrier Squad in the past. Now that the debt

Saintess Layla became witnesses to the power of runes, which made the establishment of their headquarters much smoother. Of course, he had to work on the carriage that would symbolize the cooperation between

care of the rest of

all his pillars in a single room. Of course, he also added Livia,

them had been waiting for his conversation with the Gem Lord to finish, which made it a good time

Noel accepted the Gem Lord into the

Name: Jayden Rivermore

Affection: Loyal (95/100)

In awe of your

the Gem Lord, which confused most people. Only a few understood

the first one

and

so he introduced him. "This is Mr. Jayden Rivermore. He will be staying with us from now

out, "Congratulations, my

they heard the last part, the rest of the people caught on and hurriedly congratulated Noel. Jayden was simply too big of an

flattered. Please call me

to Sandra. "Please bring

had taken her training seriously the whole time. Not only her strength grew, but her skill as a maid was impeachable. In less than a minute, Sandra had returned with a chair, albeit a bit confused

know anything about the family after all." Jayden smiled and took the chair from Sandra before placing it on the side. He only planned to observe the condition, since Noel

looked at Dimitri. "Let's start

more than two hundred of them will recover. However, the rest can only live with handicaps. 785 people are

who have died and suffered heavy injuries. Compensate them properly if they have a family or relative as it's due to their service that the city can

to know that a lot of his subjects were dead. But the only thing he could do as a lord was to offer his sympathy and pay compensation. Even if he wanted to visit them and thank them personally, he didn't have enough time to do all that

at Khalid. Khalid nodded his head, saying, "I currently don't have a lot of materials

buy the materials while preparing for the next batch migration. Also, we are going to have more cooperation with the Silica

his head. "Yes. Thank

matter outside

There should be around sixty thousand corpses around the city. Although a lot of the corpses are destroyed, we should

Demon Crystals, and half of the Low Level,

lord should use all the Superior Demon Crystals and Peak Demon Crystals. If my Lord becomes much stronger than today, I believe that our enemies won't dare show their fangs in front of us. And that is the best

be the one using it. In the end, his talent was too overwhelming to be ignored. It

about that later." Noel waved his hand before turning