Regrets

A stream of water. All the memories that the now old baron Frederick had cherished were lost one by one into nothingness. The summoning of the goddamned hero, his children, his wife, his early years practicing magic, his parents, and even the reason he became this way, all lost to the never ending flow of life.

3 hours ago, Frederick returned to his mansion to find it in ruins. All the bricks of his home were strengthened by runes, making it inpenetratable to any normal magician who wanted to cause trouble in his home. In fact, these runes were so powerful that even a simplistic house built with only 5 minutes of earth magic could withstand 10 strikes of a top level magician.

He thought he had survived the grim reaper when, 5 months ago, he was forced by the king to create a "hero summoning" ritual. The "hero summoning" ritual is a trump card of the humans, the manefistation of the human ability to reach out. As such, the summoner often has to have the qualifications to rule. However, if there is no crisis that will spell the doom of humanity, it will kill the caster.

By this point, Frederick probably thinks that the "doom of humanity" that is required for the hero summoning is the hero himself. He never thought this would happen. Sure, he forgot to mention that the only reason the rest of the fantastical races were fighting them was the fact that they were monopolizing mana by storing them into magical stones instead of having it naturally run off when casting spells, the mana overflows inside the human container and returns to the earth, or when the human dies. He instead said something about defeating the demon lord like his predecesors did so 900 years ago.

"Hero my ass!" the distraught Frederick says, finally reating to the specks of dust that was once his mansion. In fact, Frederick isn't wrong, this particular protagonist had no characteristics of a hero. In fact, there are many humans on Earth that qualify as a "hero". Nobody on Earth has a particular use of mana, and only a rare group of humans have the capacity to ingest mana. However, the mana reserves of these people are terrifying to those living in Seynia. Even scarier, the people who come from Earth only need to manifest this power to create magic, while the native residents all need to draw mana from their pool to pull off magic.

His property worse off than farmland, his family murdered, his fortune destroyed, and the perpetrator of this crime hiding in the neighboring Gaszim, Federeick finally made a decision.