This beastman stood proudly holding his sword at the ready. Around him was an aura of nobility and grandeur. Without knowing why, but Seno kept her back next to this statue, she, as a pupil of the royal family, felt the same pressure as her father. Looking more closely at the statue, there was a ring as white as snow. If you do not look closely, it was imperceptible, paying attention to it, the girl had a headache.

***

Mark pulled out, inside he saw a lot of children gathered around the librarian Rita. She consoled the children, looking at Mark with her hawkish eyes. Seeing that there were no bad intentions in his actions, she looked away, continuing to caress the heads of the weeping wolf cubs.

Feeling a slight push, Mark looked at Momo.

- Uncle Mark, I dragged you here to talk.

Stop, how can you talk.

"Ah.. this, there is a seal master formation here, it has been here since before I was born and I don't know anything else. Well, that's what the librarian Rita told me. So sorry Uncle Mark.

- I ... that's right! I wanted to ask you to deal with that crack. It has recently opened and an eerie light is coming out of it. Many of the children who saw were frightened, starting to cry, I am the great Momo, she cried only a drop. She said while holding her little heroic stance (arms at hips).

Smiling like that, Mark rubbed the girl's head, nodded to her and quietly left. He sensed that now was not the best time to talk.

***

Coming out, he saw the hay that was almost kneeling in front of the statue, looking closely at her, Mark almost immediately noticed something that should not have been here.

"Why is one of the five Human Guardian rings here?"

***

The guardian of the people is the first person who took the side of the people in the world of "Fantasy", he was able to advance to the tenth rank and become a master, but he did not stop there. Later, he created an empire that united people by creating a force that everyone except dragons reckoned with. Then the power was not yet divided between them. And they fought each other for nothing, and then one day they ended up on the territory of the empire, and again a war broke out between the two dragons. In one week, half of the empire was gone. This finally pissed off the Guardian of the people, and he came out to intervene.

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Then the battle lasted three days and three nights. At the end, the Keeper of Humans returned with one arm and a tooth that was larger than the Keeper's body.

Thanks to the blood sweat of the great blacksmiths, an incomparable weapon was created. It had a dragon aura in it, and cut through any metal like water. With it, he embarked on the path of hunting dragons. During this period, he killed more than a thousand dragons.

Which led to the fact that his body was soaked with the blood of dragons so that the way back to the world of people was forbidden to him, since the aura of dragons had devastating effects on people.

Because of this, he turned to the elves with a request to remove the aura. They agreed, as he had previously defended their territories from dragon attacks more than once.

So the five rings were created, they absorbed all of his dragon aura, along with his aura of the Emperor and the Guardian of the people.

Even hundreds of years after his death, there was a legend that whoever collected these five rings would be given the title of Guardian of the People, and would be able to call upon the sword that had lost its name after the death of its former owner again. After all, it was possible to call on a great weapon by its name if it recognized you as the owner. But the name comes with a new owner and dies with it.

But there was one catch, it was not enough to collect five rings, each of the rings received spirituality, thanks to the power of the aura. Yes, even a stone would become spiritual if so much aura was stuffed into it.

And in the end, the rings themselves chose the holder. So over time, the legend subsided, and only a few searched for them.

***

"Strange, it seems to be calling me. No, I don't want to deal with it."

Taking a step back, Mark felt the swords close around him, wherever he went, he would be pierced, only the path towards the direction of the ring was safe.

"Are you playing with me?! Slowly, he approached him, but at the moment when he was able to remove the ring, he summoned a sword from the blood and hit the ring, the statue exploded from the explosion. Mark himself felt a strong irresistible tingling on his finger. Looking at his hand, he saw a white ring, from this he had goosebumps. He could only exclaim mentally - Damn!

As if on cue, the scarlet light from the crack shone with a new wave of madness. Black skeletons began to crawl out of the crack. This struck Mark again, now he finally put together the puzzle from what this place was destroyed.

Creatures of the abyss, come here. They were starving and came early for the souls of the dead. Apparently a lot of deaths attracted them. The Abyssal Skeletons were at the very bottom of the chain. But here they were like kings. Until they encounter a manno user, their body will be indestructible. For only manno can damage their bones. Ordinary weapons won't even leave a scratch.