chapter 11

As for the 'Guardians' these are literally what their names imply, but what do they guard?. Well, their portals but we just call them gates. The guardians were recently discovered, around 40-30 years ago, they were found when a group of adventures were traversing a mountain in the north one that hadn't been fully explored, when they reached the peak of the mountain they stated, "we heard the sound of trumpets coming from the base of the mountain." Not the base on the other side, no, where they had come up from, naturally it was weird as they didn't hear that sound before but since It was the only assured route back to human life they had to take it once more.

During their return journey, they stated "The sound of the trumpets grew louder, not in the sense of hurting our ears, but it was like a welcoming melody, inviting…warriors?, or the master? I wasn't sure but what was down there held no hostility towards us." They continued until the sound of the trumpets apparently 'just stopped' "it got so loud when we got closer but when we took one more step, it just stopped, silence was all that remained until the sound of a flute played in our ears, it was soft and kind." They continued forward until the came across a weird sight, the first to notice was reportedly the team leader who was a Fire user "We were descending a mountain, so you would expect it to be at an incline, right? No, there was a clearing 40 steps ahead of us, it was a nice sight, tall trees surrounding it but a pathway for us, with rays of light shining upon those leaves, it created a spectacle. But what scared me was the land, that scene wasn't on inclined land it was on flat horizontal land."

What scared the man was the fac was the fact that the land was flat, this really means nothing until you realize that they halfway down the mountain, a very inclined part of a mountain, then the fact that there was sunlight during the night set in, he then focused more on his surroundings, and he noticed more bizarre things, like the snow wasn't falling into the clearing and that birds were chirping in peace at such an altitude and finally was that those trees blocked the entire side of the mountain, they couldn't just move around it.

Entering the clearing after some huge debating, the entire mountain was then sealed off by the trees with no way back, they moved on. "At some point we heard a waterfall to our right, naturally we went to check it out, but the sight made us wish we hadn't" they were apparently greeted with a waterfall but instead of water it was blood, and at the base of the waterfall were corpses of several creatures some we have never even heard of. The sight scared them so much that they turned and ran in the opposite direction, reaching the clearing again, they found another problem.

They saw a faceless being with wings for its ears and a golden wide halo for a hat, it had translucent bright yellow wings on its back that numbered 4, its limbs were a little bit disconnected from its torso, its torso was big at its chest but absurdly slim from its stomach down, its arms were like that of a human while its legs were those of a minitour and finally its entire body was marble white, it looked like marble, hard and smooth "An angel" is what they called it.

The rest of the story wasn't given, so I don't know what happened after they encountered it but what I do know is that in a party of 5 only 2 returned, the party leader who was a fire user and their healer who was a water user, I say 'was' because they committed suicide the day after interrogation, at two different locations. The authorities stated it was a suicide, to be honest I think it was a murder instead, why? An unremovable halo was around their necks, not choking them, just hovering around their necks.

That was the first guardian ever spotted, and of course idiots appeared and tried the same thing. But thanks to them it was discovered that certain conditions must be met to come In contact with a guardian, for that specific mountain, the conditions are, a party of 5, the specifics of who is in command really don't matter and obviously all those who tried going to that guardian didn't come back, except one woman named Ester who found out about something odd, by her time 1 more guardian was found and the condition to meet this one is, one female water user whom has killed someone important, she was the one who found the guardian and the one who spilled the condition, she reported that this guardian was female and she told her a few things about what they are and why they are here. The female guardian reportedly said this "We are guardians, we do not guard your world but the gates that are present in it, where they lead you shall have to find out on your own." There was obviously more but I'm sure you can guess what happened to the info. But something else that was leaked was that the guardian in the mountain in the north and herself were low ranked guardians protecting low rank gates, the guardian for a specific gate will have tendencies similar or exactly like those you are bound o meet inside a gate.

For clearer understanding let's use 'he in the north' as an example the main trait recorded for him is violence as proven by the waterfall of blood and the fact that none who has seen him lives past a day so we can expect whatever lies in the gate he is protecting to be bloody and violent while 'she in the east' is kind and only accepts females who have done something difficult, since she hates men and lives in a reportedly peaceful place we can expect whatever lies in the gate she is protecting to also hate men but not women and also enjoy peace. 'he in the north' was named 'Akuma' while she in the south was named 'Ester' after she who found her.

And finally, we can also expect the mid rank guardians and high rank guardians to be present in our world too, though the conditions to meet them will obviously be harder. So far only 5 guardians have been found with the 5th's condition being studied.