8 You were always protected... 3 (1/2)
”As soon as the master blacksmith succeeded in forging the first soul gear and understood its limitations, he immediately reported to the kings about it.”
”The kings rushed to witness the strength, limitations and capabilities offered by the soul gears. They knew that they had no time to waste, they became willing to listen to any and everyone's opinion in this matter.”
”After they had witnessed their astounding capabilities...they were met with few more problems. They had no way to distinguish people form who have enough life energy to hold and bond with a soul gear and those who don't meet the requirements.”
”They had only one way to look towards for advice, they made their way to the guardian spirit. They explained the situation to him. He didn't waste any time contemplating what they had explained to him. He already knew what had to be done, to solve the problem.”
”The guardians had the greatest of abilities any spirit could possess. They could manipulate anyone's life energy to an extent, if he wanted to. They could seal people's abilities and also alter the very basic way, the life energy flew in any individual if he wanted to.”
”He decided to alter the human life force, to be able to show its own capabilities at any particular moment.”
”From that day onward, protectors were able to project their life energies to show their capabilities, the projected life form took seven shapes, signifying seven power levels. ”
”The kings classified the protectors as Rank-S, A, B, C, D, E and finally Rank-Z, the guardians.”
Shin took a small nail and started drawing symbols on the ground, that signified the seven power levels.
”A Rank-E had a symbol of wind flowing.”
”A Rank-D had a symbol of sea waves raising.”
”A Rank-C had a symbol of a shield.”
”A Rank-B had a symbol of a dagger.”
”And finally Rank-A and Rank-S have a symbol of their own spirit ,but they didn't have a spirit yet, so they had a symbol of blazing fire.”
”You already know, what symbol a guardian has, don't you...” Little Yui nodded her head cutely, she completely forgot about her father at that moment.
”The kings realized that everyone above Rank-B had enough energy to forge themselves a soul gear.”
”Only, one-hundredth of the soldiers had considerable amounts of energy to be ranked and most of them were comprised of Rank-C, D, E.”
”But unbeknownst to the kings, the guardian met with a few individuals and passed them a few orders to carry out in secrecy.”
”Realizing the situation, the kings ordered the common soldiers to look after the establishments and the ones who were ranked to keep on training. They didn't want to squander the determination of a few people, who requested them to let them train, they agreed reluctantly.”