Suddenly, information appeared before my eyes.

[The will of the world recognizes the desire of the third ring of the Guardian of the people. An emergency quest has been issued.]

Quest: Giant's Small Steps

Goal: destroy the skeleton of the abyss, and close the passage between worlds

Reward: Ring recognition and one skill of his choice

Failure: the death of all the inhabitants of the village of Melody

Just like that, Mark got the quest. By the nature of quests, getting a quest is quite difficult, since both worlds have a system that works and it is impartial. But there are always exceptions, and in this case, strength respects strength.

At that moment, Mark's brains started to work at an alarming rate. He began to remember all about the skeletons of the abyss.

The skeletons of the abyss were the souls of what is in the abyss. And they gained a physical body by compacting the manno due to the strong pressure on each floor.

Their strength is that they abandoned the natural mortal body by creating it with the help of manno. And only awakened manno users can deal damage to them.

The difficulty in killing them is that the aura of the abyss makes them more adaptable to the manna that invades their bodies from the outside, so a long fight is not in my favor. Until a manno core is formed in their body, they are vulnerable to skull fracture. And they have weak bone regeneration, and the cost of regeneration quickly tires them. For this reason, the fact that the manno core is not yet in his body is in my favor.

Although there is one more but, they have a special body. Which by the standards of all worlds makes it possible to fight out of rank. Although in the abyss everyone has them. But in the outer worlds outside the abyss, they become special executioners.

Having finally formed the idea of his fight, Mark threw aside the fear of his opponent.

During the time Mark made a mental run, no more than a breath passed. Seno finally recovered from the ring's influence as the rightful owner was found and the suppression lifted.

And now she looked warily at the skeleton that was slowly crawling out of the crack.

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Slowly but surely, he made his way through the layer of the manno world alien to him, his bones were covered with cracks, but the unknown haze that covered the skeleton protected him.

When he was completely able to get through the crack, he stood up to his full height. His bones shone with scarlet light. He was a little over two meters tall, and his body consisted only of bones. There was still a purple haze around him that receded from him every moment.

Seeing Mark and Seno, he let out an inaudible roar, and ran towards them like a wild animal. He attacked Seno first, who, trying to block the blow, flew off ten meters, as she could not even keep up with the speed of the skeleton. It was only at the last moment that her instincts saved her from a blow to the heart, blocking it with a sword that had shattered during the girl's flight.

Mark stood still, shocked by what had happened. His instincts screamed about the monster that appeared next to him, and his consciousness tried to wake up from the shock of an unprecedented thirst for murder. It emanated from the skeleton in waves, completely absorbing everyone.

Even breathing was difficult. Biting his cheek from the inside, Mark pulled out the sword with one hand and grabbed the levi with the other, blood began to drip from the sword, so Mark tried to wake himself up by cutting his hand on the sword.

Slowly, the cold mind began to gain control over Mark's mental control of the body. Only a second passed, but for Mark it turned out to be an eternity. Now he was covered in cold sweat. And he was even afraid to take a step back, because he knew that in the current circumstances he would die.

The skeleton turned its head towards Mark, its mouth open, wanting to roar again. At the same moment, the blades of the sword were launched into him.

Shards rained down, the skeleton's hand moved as fast as lightning.

He also aimed at Marku's heart. Now Mark is slowly getting used to it. Even though Skeleton was faster than Mark, he was only stronger. There was not a drop of manno in him.

At the moment when the skeleton was ready to pierce the enemy's chest, Mark blocked the impact with his injured hand.

Mark flew back a meter, and the skeleton lost an arm. In slow motion, Mark shielded his chest with his injured hand, from which a short sword came out completely cutting through the skeleton's arm like butter, but he did not even hesitate in a roundhouse kick right after like a machine.

With another growl, the skeleton ran towards Mark. A fight ensued. The skeleton no longer made its insane attacks while ignoring defense. And Mark was slowly adapting due to the relaxation of the rhythm of the battle.

The whole battle took place in silence, due to the limitation of sound, under the supervision of children who, with pain in their hearts, watched the hero who protected them from evil. If Mark had left earlier not wanting to help the children, they would have been next in line. Since the creatures of the abyss are sensitive to the life energy of creatures without the aura of the abyss.

Throughout the fight, the skeleton had already lost many body parts. Now he was missing part of his thigh, his entire left arm all the way to his shoulder, and his jaw had been cut off. But even despite this, the skull itself was intact.

Mark, in turn, was choking, he had already lost count of the number of wounds he had accumulated. If not for the breakthrough during the fight, when he instinctively figured out how to keep the blood from leaving the body, he would already be dead.