Slowly the white light drifted into the world cleansing it, giving life to a long-dead land, calling to any animal or person that would listen to it. Desert animals slowly began to gather, mice, lizards, snakes and even the occasional packs of wild dogs, with each animal gathered came the strength of their life force, strengthening the swords of life slowing the barrier to grow.
Everything from the tiniest insect, to the giant creatures that followed the white lights song, strengthened the swords energies slowing them to replicate and follow their original program. To spread the varied and protect the land and its inhabitants.
Rico for his part didn't know about any of this, he could feel himself becoming weaker as the days went by, there didn't seem to be any real reason for this to be happening, none of the water he drank was contaminated and neither was the food for that matter.
He had taken advantage of the structure of the pyramid and put in several constructs of air conditioners, making the pyramid seem more like an overgrown freezer. If he got too cold he simply turned the things off, if it got to hot for him he would run them on.
So the more he thought about what might be the cause of his ever weakening body, the more he realized one possibility might be all too real.
Using the power of the white ring, came with a price. He had been using the power of life, to give life to the lands around him, curing any illness he encountered and purifying whatever evil he found and there was a catch to that.
He was paying for that with the years of his life, he had started of strong and almost impossible to hurt like any young man would, but now he felt like an old man, he felt weak and almost unable to do things on his own.
If this continued he would have to defend himself one day and he might be unable to do so, so he drew his collection of cards and set them loose inside the pyramid to act as guards for him, at least until he could find a way to undo the damage he had done to himself.
Unfortunately for Rico, his realization about this came too late, humans and elves had heard the call of the white light of life and had begun to gather, some entered immediately, others went of to tell anyone they could find, that there was a safe place.
Others simply decided to wait for the other shoe to drop and decided to wait outside the protective barrier. Slowly the people moved and they found themselves encountering a land filled with plenty and so they ate their fill, some wept as they hadn't eaten in days, others drank so much water that they vomited it back, they hadn't drunken anything in so long, that their bodies were actually having difficulty processing the water.
Still, as they all moved in the lands they found them empty, if not for the occasional animal, there was nobody in this place at all. However, as they walked they soon found themselves in an empty city that had a giant pyramid in the middle and ag the bottom of the pyramid, they found Rico sleeping inside his silver armor, glowing with pure white life energy.
None that saw him would ever know that thw moment they had entered the barrier, they had unwillingly drained all of Rico's strength, forcing him into a healing sleep. A sleep that would only be prolonged by the arrival of more and more animals, people and the very extension of the barrier itself.
As the people searched they found no one except Rico alone and those with the means of seeing the energies that called to them by song, were not surprised to find the song coming from the silver knight sleeping at the bottom of the pyramid.
As time passed dwarfs, elves and humans gathered in the city, some took the marble houses as their own, others went of into the forest to live their lives and some even decided to look for anything that might be hidden away, all hopeful that the sleeping one's power could keep them safe.
As the weeks became months, many tried to awaken the sleeping knight but none were successful the man simply slept comfortably. People soon found that if a person was missing a limb or was dying for whatever reason, all one had to do was sleep next to the man and by the next day they would be cured or their lost limbs would have grown back overnight.
Those that watched over the people that did this spoke about a white light that enveloped the people and grew back the limbs without any hint of pain and soon a legend began to form.
The sleeping god that awaited to be freed from his sleep they said to themselves, some even wondered if he was related to Alarielle as she was found sleeping by Sigmar. Still, as more and more people gathered Rico slept until the day he finally opened his eyes.