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Pax Coronata (Arthur's New World)

Disclaimer: most of TBATE history is not given to us in a uniform manner. Therefore, the exact order for some event is unclear and up for interpretation. however the order provided is the generally accepted order by the community.

Asuran history

• Pre-Asuran Evolution: on the continent of Epheotus the race that would one day become the asura's were a thriving civilization that resembled the elves of today. they are the first recorded civilization from the Old World.

• Post-Asuran Evolution: the first asuras evolved from their common ancestry into the nine Asuran races (the Dragons, Hamadryads, Phoenixes, Sylphs, Leviathans, Pantheons, Titans, Basilisks, Wraiths). The first to emerge were the Dragons, Pantheons, and Hamadryades. The Dragonic Indrath Clan and the Hamadryad Mapellia Clan form an alliance that is still in effect to this day.

• A Time of Great Advancement: before moving Epheotus into its own pocket dimension in the aether realm, the asuran wraith race establish a city on the land that is now Etistin Bay. else where the asuras created many great inventions such as the dragons creating the Aether Orb and many other advanced Aether based inventions

• The Wraith War: before the creation of the Epheotus dimension, the eight current races of asura united against their common enemy, the wraiths. During this war a prominent unnamed female dragon from the indrath clan played a critical role leading to her being hailed as one of the indrath’s 4 great heroes. This war lead to a genocide of the wraiths and destroyed the wraith city at Etistin Bay. the fighting left the continent ravaged.

• The Deva: at some unknown point, the asura interact with a race called The Deva. The Deva, upon arriving, alter the world in some unknown but major way and then left, never to be seen again.

• The Epheotus Dimension: the ancient asuras create the Epheotus dimension under the rule of Kezess the First. This act removed all remnants of their civilization from the world including the remnants of the wraith city built on what is now Etistin Bay. This act also (either internally or inadvertently) creates the aetheric realm. In creating the aetheric realms the balance of the universe is broken, leading to Fate's intervention, setting the stage for someone to return balance back to the world. This event also leads to the creation of The Archon.

• The Natural Beasts: at some unknown point the asuras subjugate the Natural Beast.

• The Death of The World Serpent: at some unknown point Antioch Eccleiah fought and killed The World Serpent, Aquinas. the specifics of the battle are unknown however we are told the whole thing was “a rousing tale, if somewhat cautionary.”

• The Death of The Living Mountain: At some unknown point, Arkanus Indrath fought and bisected The Living Mountain, Geolus. This battle is said to have caused widespread destruction. Tho the public believes Geolus is dead, he is very much alive, simply sleeping. Whether Arkanus or his descendants know this is unclear.

• The Legacy: at some unknown point the Legacy of the old world appears. It is not known who it was or when it happened, only that it showed up exactly once. the event in particular could have happened anywhere in the timeline pre arthur but it is commonly believed to have happened around this time.

• The Era of War and Withering: inside Epheotus, the asura go through cycles of war and decay. This leads to the number of asura diminishing as well as a Decrease in individual strength. this period takes up the vast majority of Asuran history.

• The Lesser Genocides: the Indrath Clan commit an untold number of genocides against the Lessers that popped up during the eons, insuring these lesser races would never reach their full potential. This is an effort to stop outsiders from noticing The Old World and conquering it and Epheotus. with every genocide the Dragons commit their connection to Aether becomes weaker and weaker.

• The Era of The Great Eight: after many years of war and withering, the asura united under the rule of The Great Eight with Kezess Indrath as king of the asura. This ends the cycle of constant conflict between and diminishing of the asura's.

• The Lost Prince: Mordain Asclepius leaves Ephiotus after discovering what happened to his allies, The Djinn. He is presumed a traitor or dead by Epheotus. The Asclepius Clan is replaced by the Avignis Clan at the council of the Great Eight.

• Agrona Vritra: around 900 years ago, Agrona rebelled against the great eight and takes his clan and allied asuras to Alacrya. this leads to many considering wiping out the basilisk's entirely but cooler head prevail and no such genocide takes place. The Vritra Clan is replaced by the Kothan Clan at the council of the Great Eight.

• A Time of Intervention: in an effort to prepare for Agrona's eventual invasion of Dicathen Kezess orders the creation of 6 artifact that will boost a Lesser mage to white core however the artifact will permanently cripple the mage to stop them from progressing any further. these artifacts are then given to the Lessers who would one day become the modern royal families by (probably) Aldir. later on Wren Kain IV comes down to the old world and gives the failed Asuran Weapon Dawn's Ballet to a random merchant. this is not the only time Epheotus has intervened but these are the only 2 accounts we know about specifically. During this time Windsom is put in charge of surveying Dicathen.

Lesser history

The Djinn:

• Evolution: The Djinn, or Ancient Mages, started off as a Lesser race like any other. At some point, they went through an evolution. We don't know when this happened but it was likely over a millennia years ago. This evolution gave them the ability to utilize aether.

• Zhoroa: they build the capital city of Zhoroa around Etistin Bay.

• Mass Innovation: the Djinn build the teleportation gates as well as the floating islands of Xyrus City and the Flouting Castle. They also built the Sanctuary and the dungeons that scatters the world. They also came up with things like relics and bestowals, which was later used by Agrona to empower his people.

• The Relictombs: at some unknown point, the Djinn begin developing and building the ultimate library of their aetheric knowledge, known as the Relictombs.

• Ji-ae: at some point, Ji-ae (the greatest mind the Djinn ever produced) is born and becomes the index for the Relictombs. We don't know exactly when she is born but we know it has to be around the time the Relictombs was being built and she had to be alive for the following event.

• The Asuras Intervene: the Asura take notice of the Djinn and instead of just killing all of them instead make contact with them because of their ability tp manipulate aether. At some point, Kezess Indrath himself tries to negotiate with Lady Sae-Areum over exchanging aetheric insights. However, Lady sae-Areum makes it clear that one does not simply share insight.

• The Genocide: after negotiations fell through, Kezess orders the extermination of the Djinn. This leads to a vast majority of the djinn being wiped out, however a few do survive only to be tortured by Kezess for their aetheric insghts. Some escaped Kezess's grasp and took refuge in what will become the Hearth. This act leads to the Djinn making it to where no asura could access, the Relictombs. It also corrupts the djinn responsible for finishing the relictombs, turning it from a library to a death trap.

• The Hearth: at an unclear point, Mordain comes down to The Old World and takes refuge with his Djinn allies in the Hearth and agrees to protect them. This leads to parts of his clan and the Djinn forming couples and having offspring.

• An Act of Resistance: the Djinn do not remain ideal and chose one of two paths. Either they leave the hearth and intermingle with the new lesser races, or they try and collect the keystones to unlock Fate. Some of the Djinn (including Chul's father) obtain the third keystone. however all of them fail to unlock Fate due to them not being the one Fate itself has chosen. This eventually leads to the end of the Djinn as a race.

Alacrya:

• the Age of Experimentation: at some unknown point, Agrona descends to Alacrya with his allies and begin to experiment on the Lessers. He breeds with the Lessers, creating the first Lessurans. It is important to note that this is not the same as what happened with the Asclepius Clan and the Djinn, as the Djinn were more evolved than the Lessers of Alacrya.

• The Birth of Alacrya: during his experimentation, Agrona creates the political structure of Alacrya and the defining five dominions. Truacia in the is north ruled by Sovereign Oludari, Etril in the east ruled by Sovereign Exeges, Vechor in the south is ruled by Sovereign Kiros, Sehz-Clar in the west is ruled by Sovereign Orlaeth, and in the middle is the Central Dominion ruled by Sovereign Khaernos. At the top of everything we have the High Sovereign Agrona Vritra. Agrona also builds Taegrin Caelum. During this time, Agrona also establishes the scythe and retainer system, as well as The Victoriad. He also creates his secret elite fighting forces of Vritra half-bloods known as the Wraiths.

• The Relictombs: after establishing his lessuran population, Agrona destroys the dungeons scattered across Alacrya, leaving only the gates to the Relictombs. He then sends his lessuran solders into the Relictombs and removes the index of the Relictombs, Ji-ae, from her place and placing her to Taegrin Caelum where she becomes his assistant. With her help, Agrona creates many innovations such as the Bestowals and Tempus Wraps.

• The Ascenders: in an effort to gain more information and relics from the Relictombs, Agrona creates The Ascenders Association. this is similar to the Adventurer's Guild in Dicathen but specifically for the Relictombs.

• The Battle Against Epheotus: at some point, Kezess sends an army to take down Agrona and his forces. Agrona wins but not unscathed. He takes his fiancée, Sylvia, as prisoner.

• Infighting: around a century ago, Vechor and Sehz-Clar go to war. We don't know why or the actual outcome, only that Cylrit, Seris, Dragoth and Uto took part in it. This war does lead Seris to begin plotting her rebellion against Agrona. At some point, Khaernos is abducted by Agrona. Agrona has also spent the many centuries weeding downs his allies to only a handful of those who initially followed him from Epheotus. during this time Ji-ae is unwittingly being directly manipulated by Fate. setting the stage for Arthur Leywin acension. Sometime during all this, Sylvia manages to escape from her imprisonment and was given the locations of the Four Keystones by Ji-ae while under the influence of Fate. These are the cornerstones to unlocking the power of Fate. Agrona, learning about Sylvia's escape, sends his agents looking for her. during this time Cynthia Goodsky helps Alaric escape the spy life.

• The Legacy: Agrona begins researching into the Legacy, searching world after world for one. He eventually finds Cecilia, but unfortunately, she dies in her own world before he can reincarnate her. this fact is likely cause by Fate's intervention.

• Preparing for War: Agrona begins his preparations for the invasion of Dicathen by sending his spies lead by Cynthia Goodsky (who eventually abandons this duty) and assisted by Draneeve to Dicathen creating allies for Agrona like the dwarves. He also declares his own personal enforcer, Cadell, as the new scythe of the Central Dominion. This happened around the time the story began. Before the war ever kicks off, Agrona makes a deal with Kezess saying that no asura will participate in the future battle over Dicathen as such a battle would destroy the world. during this time Mordain Asclepius sends an embracery lady Dawn to Agrona to negotiate however she fails, is captured, and is presumably tortured for information on reincarnation..

• Reincarnation: Agrona, in attempt to reincarnate Cecilia using her two anchor points (that being king Grey and Nico), attempts to reincarnate Grey into an Unamed Alacryan child. This effort is thwarted by a time-traveling Sylvie who then guides Grey's soul into the unborn Leywin child that would become Arthur. Agrona, not knowing about Sylvie's interference, assumes the reincarnation process simply failed and then attempts to reincarnate Nico instead and succeeded. Nico lives and trains in Alacrya.

Dicathen:

• The Beast Era: The Beast Era is the earliest recorded time period from the current lesser races of Dicathen. This is when the races were nomadic and powerless to defend themselves against the mana beast of Dicathen. However, there was no real conflict between the races and they would often trade with each other. Around the time of Agrona's betrayal, the Artifacts were gifted to the three races by the asura, allowing them to use magic and gave each race two powerful warriors, known as the first lances. This allowed the races to push back the mana beasts all the way to the Beast Glades and to establish dominance over Dicathen.

• The Birth of Nations: after putting an end to the beast era, the three kingdoms; Sapin in the west, Darv in the south, Elenoir in the north were established. The royal lines were also established. The Glayders ruled the humans, the Greysunders ruled the dwarves and the Eraliths ruled the elves. These royal linages were established due to them being chosen by the Asura and given the lance artifacts.

• A Brief Peace: after the formation of the three kingdoms, they lived in relative peace. This lead to exchanges in ideas and knowledge not seen prior to this. At some point, the dwarves and elves were so friendly with each other that the king of Elenoir at the time gave the king of Darv one of Elenoir's sacred trees which still stands in Lodenhold to this very day. It is also suspected but not directly confirmed that this is when the elves abolished the practice of slavery.

• The First War: after many years of relative peace, the three races began to want complete supremacy over the continent. This desire for one to rule them all lead to an all out war where there was no clear victor. All it really accomplished was defining the borders of the three kingdoms.

• The Human-Elf War: after many years of non conflict, the humans and the elves began vying to rule the continent once more, leading to an all out war between the two. The dwarves choose to remain neutral during this conflict. This conflict started with the elves taking the northern parts of Sapin, however they were eventually pushed back to the grand mountains where the border remains to this day. This conflict happen less then 100 years ago and came to be known as The Second War. During the Second War, Virion Eralith’s wife dies protecting her husband. She used up her life force in order to prevent the assassination of Virion. the war itself only ended after the current human king Blaine killed his father in a rebellion to end the war. key fact to know is that the Flamesworth and Wykes houses participated, as well as Camus Selaridon and his wife, as he lost both his ability to see and his wife during the conflict. Jarnas Auddyr also fought in this war and came to admire the tenacity of the humans.
  • Rinia Darcassan is mentored by Mordain Asclepius in aether and medicine. Whether this is prior, during or after the Second War is not known but it was likely around this time.

• A Time of Exchange: after the human-elven war, the three races are more divided then ever. In an effort to fix this, mages from all races meet in order to improve relations. This works to questionable effect. They also establish an continental tournament that accrues about every four years. This tournament is so that the youth of all races can interact with each other. It also serves as a way for the different races to show off their abilities and skills. The three races established the International Summit, where all the leaders meet. This occurs every seven years and is held in Xyrus City. during this time Cynthia Goodsky turns against Agrona (leaving dreneeve as head spy) and creates Xyrus Academy. It is important to note that only humans were allowed to attend at this point.

Volume 1: Early Years

• Arthur's Early Years: king Grey was reincarnated on May 29 as Arthur Leywin in Ashber Town by a time traveling Sylvie. He spends his early years getting closer to his new family, however he also looks towards the future and using the knowledge of his previous life. He awakens his mana core at the age of three, destroying his house in the process. He then begins training with his father, Reynolds Leywin. However Reynolds, after a sparring match with Arthur, does not feel confident about training Arthur. He and Alice fight over what to do and after eventually decide to move to Xyrus to find a proper instructor for their son. Before they leave, Alice learns she is pregnant. During this time, Caera was adopted by Highblood Denoir.

Journey to Xyrus City with Twin Horns

• The Trip to Xyrus: Arthur meets the Twin Horns Party less than a year after his awakening and they begin the journey to Xyrus City. During the trip, Arthur spars with Adam Krensh. Arthur wins and begins to teach Jasmine his technique. Arthur, on his birthday, receives a dagger from Jasmine as a birthday gift. While crossing the Grand Mountains, Bandits attacks the party and Arthur falls off a cliff taking down one of the bandit mages, saving his mother and unborn sibling in the process. arthur survives the fall thanks to Fate's and Sylvia's intervention. In grief, Alice tries to kill herself holding herself responsible. After being comforted by her husband, they continue their trek to Xyrus where upon arrival they meet with Vincent Helstea who after hearing their story offers them a job and a place to stay. Alice is working around the manor with Tabitha Helstea and Reynolds works as head of the guard for the Helstea Auction House.

• The Cave: Arthur, after surviving his fall from the mountain, is contacted by Sylvia. She instructs him to her cave where Arthur then meets Sylvia and immediately freaks out due to her appearance. After calming down, they talk and she says she'll make a portal for him. however it will take some time. In the ensuing four months, Sylvia teaches him mana rotation and they grow closer. After finally completing the portal, Cadell appears. Before he can do anything, Sylvia uses Static Void and gives Arthur her beast will and Sylvie's egg before sending him through the portal. Sylvia is killed by Cadell. Cadell figures out that it was king Grey who Sylvia had saved and he reports this to Agrona upon his return to Alacrya. After seeing Sylvia's corpse, Agrona goes to Epheotus and informs Kezess that his daughter Sylvia is dead. Agrona keeps the body for testing in Taegrin Caelum. Around this time, Agrona also wipes Nico's memories and sends him with his new persona, Elijah, to Agrona's dwarven ally, Rahdeas.

• Elshire forest: Sylvia sends Arthur to the Forest of Elshire and imprints two messages in his core. Arthur, upon waking up, hears the first one. In it, Sylvia tells Arthur to not let hate rule his life and to get stronger. She also reveals she knew about Arthur's previous life. Arthur then starts looking for humans. He finds a group of human slave traders and kills all of them and rescues an elven girl named Tessia. After a bit of debate, Arthur agrees to take her back to her home in the Kingdom of Elenoir. During the trip, Tessia and Arthur become close friends where tessia asks arthur to call her Tess and that she call him Art like his family which he agrees too do. Arthur, during this time is experiencing random bouts of pain caused by his beast will.

• The Kingdom of Elenoir: upon reaching Elenoir, Tessia is revealed to be the princess of the elves. Arthur then has a meeting with the King and Queen of the elves as well as the former King, Virion. He informs the audience what happened, and the meeting ends with the King and Queen agreeing to give Arthur a elven escort back to Xyrus. Virion, impressed with Arthur's story and gumption decides to take arthur as his disciple, eager to teach him to control his beast will as he will most certainly die if he does not properly assimilate with it. This apprenticeship was intended to last 5 years. Arthur accepts but on the conditions that he gets to tell his family he's alive. Virion agrees, and after a brief dispute with the King and Queen, Arthur is allowed to stay in the royal palace. The next day, Arthur meets Rinia Darcassan. In this meeting elder Rinia discovers Arthur's past with her diviner powers. she then discovers she can't see Arthur's future which unbeknownst to her is due to Fate"s intervention. with elder Rinia's help they contacts Arthur's parents using her deviant magic. Alice and Reynolds weep at the news that their son is alive. Arthur then begins his training and assimilation with his beast will. Within the coming months, Eleanor Leywin is born.

• Family Reunion: Three years later, Arthur, now seven years old, has fully assimilates with his dragon beast will and has now reached the light red stage of his mana core. During this time, Tessia awakened her mana core and has begun training under Virion. Now that Arthur has finished his assimilation Arthur is now no longer in mortal danger from his beast will, Arthur's departure is accelerated to only a few months. Tessia is devastated by this news. The day this decision made, Sylvie hatches. Sylvie's presence improves Tessia's mode. within that time, Arthur unlocks the first and second phase of his beast will. He leaves and travels to Xyrus to his family. During the journey to Xyrus, Arthur becomes friends with Feyrith Ivsaar III. Upon returning, Arthur meets Eleanor, his little sister. He has a teary reunion with his family.

Helping Lilia and Ellie to awaken

• Family Time: Arthur, after returning and recounting his story, agrees to a sparring match with his father. Arthur wins and they go back inside to eat. Vincent Helstea impressed by Arthur's performance offers to send Arthur to Xyrus Academy, however Arthur declines as he wants to spend time with his family. He does, however, agree to be tested by Cynthia Goodsky. The next day, Arthur goes shopping with his family and Afterwards, Arthur spars with Cynthia. In the process, he reveals he is a quadra-elemental mage. After the spar, he agrees to go to Xyrus Academy but only when he reaches the normal age of attendance. In the meantime, Arthur wishes to become an adventurer. His parents do not approve and they fight but eventually agree to let Arthur become an adventurer on three conditions: Firstly, he has to have a guardian with him at all times, second, he must wait until his 9th birthday, and third, he has to return home once every two months as the bare minimum. In preparation for his adventures, Arthur approaches Vincent to get a couple of items from him: a mask to hide identity and a sword. Vincent agrees to get these for Arthur and Arthur, in exchange, offers to make Lilia a mage. Vincent accepts, however Arthur does say its not guaranteed to work. Arthur begins training both Eleanor and Lilia on how to develop a mana core. Arthur is now fairly certain that Lilia (despite coming from a non mage background) can become a mage.

Arthur attacks Sebastian

Volume 2: New Heights

• The Helstea Auction House: Two months later, and two weeks before Arthur's 9th birthday, Arthur reunites with the Twin Horns. That same day ,the Helstea Auction House 10-Year Anniversary event commences. Arthur and his family meet the human royal family, the Glayders. During this, however, Sebastian (one of the kings royal mages) tries to take Sylvie. Arthur intervenes and uses his kings force to terrify him and inadvertently all the guests. This leads to an intruder accidently getting caught and accused of trying to kill the king. the action then begins. Curtis Glayder gets his world lion he'll eventually name Grawder and will bond with the mana beast. at the end of the auction Sebastian tries to convinces the king to get Sylvie from Arthur for him. Arthur refuses the king three times, after which he is attacked by an insubordinate guard who Arthur immediately deals with. Sebastian tries to take this opportunity to kill Arthur but Arthur uses the first phase of his beast will and shatters Sebastian's leg, traumatizing the onlookers. The recoil from using his beast will throws Arthur is a coma for several days. The king tries to pay Arthur as recompense for his guards insubordination and he accepts. Afterwards, there is debate on who will go with Arthur, and ultimately Jasmine volunteers to be Arthur’s escort during his adventurer days. Later on Arthur gets his mask from Vincent and is offered any sword in Vincent's warehouse. After not finding anything great, he trips over a stick that turns out to be a sword named Dawn's Ballad, crafted by Wren Kain IV making it a failed Asuran Weapon. Arthur takes it but was unaware of its significance at the time. Arthur also grabs another sword and asks for both items which Vincent agrees to give him.

• Becoming an Adventure: on May 29, they celebrate Arthur’s 9th Birthday party. As a present, Arthur is given three things: a glove by his family with three healing stones in it, sound communication scrolls by the Twin Horns so Arthur can contact his family while away, and a pair of rings by the Helstea Family that show the mana level of the recipient across great distances. This allows his family to know Arthur was alive even without hearing from him. The receiver ring is given to his mother. Arthur then departs for the Adventure's Guild with jasmine. Rahdeas around this time sends Elijah to become an adventure. Using her connections jasmine gets arthur tested with little difficulty. Arthur then meets Kaspian Bladeheart, the leader of the Xyrus Branch of the Adventurer's Guild. They talk briefly and Arthur introduces himself under his alias, Note before the mock battles commences.
  • Elijah Knight is there but due to his connections, doesn't have to test and is automatically given a B rank.
  • Lucas Wykes is given the B-rank.
  • Kaspian himself tests Arthur and gives him a B-rank. however he does note it could have been higher had arthur not held back.

• After this, Arthur, Lucas, and Elijah meet for the first time. After the examination is done, Arthur and Jasmine venture into the Beast Glades to spar in order asses Arthur's skills, during which Arthur concludes that his swordsmanship has lessened in comparison to his previous life, and he decides to spend the next two years improving it. He decides to only train his swordsmanship and improve his mana core. They spend the next two years training, hunting mana beasts and clearing dungeons. and develope a sibling-like bond during this time.

• Elsewhere: While Arthur is an adventurer many other things happen such as:
  • There was a proclamation declaring that all races can now become adventurers.
    • Draneeve and his underlings, along with Uto, have started to corrupt the mana beasts in dungeons and putting them under their control including the Elderwood Guardian of the dire tombs. Agrona has also started using his fake birds to survey the continent and key figure around the continent.
  • A robotic bird made to look like a mana beast is discovered. Gideon confirms that the technology does not originate from Dicathen, opening up for the possibility of the presence of another, unknown, continent. this lead the 3 royal families considering forming a council. to potentially combat the new continent and they all agree to do so.
    • Gideon is given the task to come up with a means of traveling to the new continent. During this time, he also crafts two Phoenix Wyrm Pendants, intended for the Glayders. he also makes the lance pendants. In prep for the announcements Emily Watsken develops the image projector artifacts.
  • Virion informs Cynthia Goodsky that Arthur is his pupil.
    • Tessia gets an orb of stalking from elder Rinia. She also begins training under Cynthia and moves to Xyrus, experiencing the school life for a year prior to officially attending the academy.
  • Sylvie leaves Arthur to train by herself by hunting and eating mana beasts in the Beast Glades.
    • Caera begins her mentorship under Seris, and her vritra-blood manifestsand, and after confiding in her mentor decides to keep this a secret from her family
  • Wolfrum Redwater is taken in by Seris and his vritra-blood also manifests, though he keeps this a secret from Seris and instead begins to spy on her for Dragoth.
    • Rinia, knowing of the imminent war, moves to a cave hidden on the borders of the Grand Mountains and the Elshire Forest to remain hidden from her enemies.
  • Kai Crestless on draneeve's orders infiltrates Xyrus academy.
    • Lilia awakens and starts attending Xyrus Academy and Eleanor begins attending a school for young ladies.
  • Curtis Glayder makes an equals pact with Grawder and gets his beast will.
    • Lucas achieves the dark-yellow stage of his mana core and Elijah achieves the dark-orange stage of his mana core.
  • Sevren Denoir Dies in the Relictombs by a massive centipede.

• The Adventures of Note: Note and Jasmine adventures during their adventurer achieves many things. Arthur builds a reputation as an adventurer that does not use mana and uses only a sword. Jasmine was promoted to AA-class adventurer and is now in a light-yellow stage core. She also learned sword techniques from Arthur while helping him improve his wind magic. Jasmine learned the truth of Arthur's bond and promised not to tell anyone about Sylvie. Arthur also achieved the light-orange stage of his mana core during this time.

• the Dire Tombs: Arthur's final dungeon before retiring as Note was the Dire Tombs, where he and Jasmine join a party consisting of Brald, Kriol, Reginald, Oliver, Samantha, Lucas and Elijah. They introduce themselves and establish Brald as leader of the raid. The raid begins with them being attacked by batrunners which they deal with fairly quickly but lucas goes against orders by using a bigger then necessary spell. as They proceed thru the dungeon, it becomes clear that it has change since Brald latest excursion, including mana beasts that weren't there before, and as a result, Oliver dies and Brald loses an arm from a heat explosion. After this there is some infighting on how to proceed. Note takes command of the situation and tells Lucas to get it together. After this, everything goes relatively smoothly until they enter the corrupted Elderwood Guardian, a S-class mana beast, lair. The lair has a mist that effects the mind and ultimately leads to Kriol's death. After dealing with the mist, the Elderwood guardian appears and Samantha gets hit and crippled. Reginald charges in and gets one shot. Brald is killed after doing minor damage to the beast. Lucas, seeing things not going well, attacks his team, sacrificing them in order to escape. Arthur, having no choice, resorts to using the second phase of his beast will, Realmheart, and barely defeats the Elderwood Guardian. Elijah then uses two healing crystals on Arthur and then on Jasmine. Arthur and Elijah become friends (establishing the first link needed for the Legacy's reincarnation) and after some much needed recovery time find Samantha along with the beast core. The party agrees it belongs to Arthur and then leave with Sylvie.

• The Trial of Lucas Wykes: after finally escaping, the remaining raid team meets back up with Lucas and after Lucas starts talking shit Note throws his sword at Lucas, cutting his ear. He then crushes his guards and tells Lucas his sword just slipped out of his hand. The team reports about Lucas's actions during the raid. A trial is set to be held, however before that, Arthur makes a deal with Kaspian and the judge to set the sentence to Lucas just losing his adventure licenses and Note not being able to go to Xyrus while Lucas is there. they also agree to not reveal Note's true identity to the Wykes family. Most are unaware of this and just assume the main reason Lucas got off so easy was because of his family connections. Arthur meets with Jasmine and Elijah. He tell them he's not done with Lucas and that Elijah and he will attend Xyrus Academy together. Jasmine takes Elijah to the Helstea Manor where he'll stay until they begin school. Kaspian then gives Arthur some money and Arthur buys himself a dimension ring with it.

• Returning Home: Arthur returns home to his family. Arthur then remembers Eleanor is a growing girl and that boys are going to start being a thing. He vows to not let any uncouth males around his sister as long as he lives. He has a teary reunion with his parents, after which they have dinner. Arthur then tells the story of the Dire Tombs and gives Reynolds the Corrupted Elderwood Guardian core so he can break through to the next core stage, however he could not obtain the beast will inside. Arthur then begin training both his dad and Elijah on mana manipulation as well as just spending time with his family. Later, Arthur goes to meet the legendary inventor, Gideon, with the help of Vincent. Arthur offers Gideon the plans for a steam ship. Gideon tries to bargain with Arthur for the plans, ultimately settling on giving arthur two Phoenix Wyrm Pendants. Arthur agrees, but he also wants to know why he wants the plans for the ship. Gideon the tells Arthur about the bird and the second continent saying they want aa bout so they can go there. Arthur then meets up with Elijah and they witness Jamiel Tridant and his crew bullying a dwarf. Arthur and his entourage stand up for the dwarf. Things escalate, and Arthur beats them up. The Glayder siblings witness this and Curtis, understanding political repercussions, tries to just let the everyone go their separate ways, however Arthur pulls out a communication scroll and gets Jamiel and his companions expelled from Xyrus Academy. The Glayder siblings become friendly to Arthur as a result.
  • Note: Jamiel does not appear in the novel, only in the webcomic.

• The Council: a continent-wide broadcast is made, declaring that the humans, elves, and dwarves will be forming a unified government called the Council of Dicathen. they then announcements the discovery of the other continent then acknowledged the existence of the lances and introduced them to the world. In order of introduction, it goes: Alea Triscan, Varay Aurae, Olfred Warend, Aya Grephin, Mica Earthborn and Bairon Wykes.

• Eleanor's Birthday: a week after the announcement, Eleanor's birthday celebration occurs. Everyone shows up, from the Twin Horns to Eleanor's friends she's made at her school for young ladies. egged on by their dad, Eleanor and Arthur partake in an impromptu to dance after whick Arthur gives one phoenix wyrm pendent to his sister and the other one to his mom. Eleanor also received an elven bow from Tessia later on. Eleanor will begin training under Helen Shard while arthur attends school. Arthur then goes out to the balcony and meets Jarrod Redner. Arthur asks if he is into Lilia, and he says yes. After their conversation, Lilia shows up and Arthur intentionally friend-zones her without confronting Lilia's feelings directly, despite knowing about them. He then talks to Gideon and Arthur agrees to help Gideon out occasionally in exchange for Gideons help. also during this time Gideon begins construction of the Dicatheous after discovering the necessary fuel source in combustium.

Volume 3: Beckoning Fate

• Orientation: A few days after Eleanor's birthday Arthur and Elijah start school. during orientation Tessia is declared student council president. Many students become infatuated with her, including Elijah (this establishes the second connection needed for Cecilia's reincarnation). After orientatio, Arthur witnesses some bullying which he stopsfrom escalating. Unfortunately, after being provoked by Sylvie the bully attacks Arthur. Tessia intervenes, putting an end to the conflict. Tessia and Arthur argue over who is at fault and they depart on strained terms. Later on, Arthur has a meeting with Director Goodsky. They talk and come to an agreement; Arthur will join The Disciplinary Committee and in exchange, he will get access to higher level classes, the library and a private training room. Afterwards, Arthur and Elijah go to the cafeteria where they then run into Charles Ravenpor II who tries to recruit Elijah and bully Arthur. Things escalate until Tessia intervenes once again and quietly solves the issue without revealing herself. Arthur then meets up with Tessia and, after some awkward apologizing, agree they were both wrong about the prior incident and make up. Arthur and Tessia catch up and Arthur by the end gives Tessia the corrupted Elderwood Guardian beast will (not knowing it is corrupted). Arthur and Elijah return back to their dorm. Tessia goes to her dorm and absorbs the beast will unknowingly giving Agrona the ability to kill her using the beast will inside her.

• First Day of School: Arthur starts the day by meeting the Disciplinary Committee members, Curtis Glayder, Kathyln Glayder, Theodore Maxwell, Kai Crestless, Doradrea Oreguard, Feyrith Ivsaar III, and finally their leader Claire Bladeheart. After spme brief introductions they leave to be formally announced by Tessia. Later on, during Arthur's practical mana manipulation class, Professor Geist offers to spar with the disciplinary committee. He beats Feyrith fairly easily. Kathyln does better but almost gets seriously injured, forcing Arthur to save her. Arthur than challenges the professor and proceeds to beat him up. The professor files a complaint to the director, who after looking into the matter, sides with Arthur and his companions. Arthur then meets Emily Watsken when taking Gideon's class, and they become friends. After being called to Goodsky's office, Arthur is offered to teach Professor Geist class as he has been fired. Arthur reluctantly accepts.

• A Mock Battle: During Arthurs fighting mechanics class, he reunites with Lucas, though the latter does not recognize him as Note the Adventurer. Arthur also meets his professor, Vanesy Glory, for the first time. Glory, wanting to test Arthur, suggest a 3 vs 3 mock battle with the Disciplinary Committee on one side and the Student Council on the other. Everyone agrees, and Lucas subs in for the student council as only two members were present. The mock battle breaks up into individual 1v1's with Arthur vs Lucas being the main one. Arthur, after discovering air magic, begins to win his bout against Lucas. However, Tessia is put in mortal danger due to her beast will giving her core pains, incapacitating her. Arthur uses static void jumping in to save her taking Curtis' attack to the back, passing out in the process. The mock battle is over and Arthur and Tessia are taken to the infirmary but only after Director Goodsky and Avier convince Sylvie to let them.

• The Infirmary: when Arthur finally wakes up he has two initials brief conversations with Sylvie and Goodsky. After some more rest, he wakes up to his family visiting. They talk until the Eralith Royal Family arrives, leading to the two families finally meeting. Eventually, after much discussion they all leave Arthur and he is later visited by all his friends. Near the end of the day, Arthur is visited again by Tessia, who kisses him in a declaration of her feelings for him, then immediately flees the scene in embarrasment. Arthur is befuddled by this and doesn’t know how to proceed. Tessia is overthinking everything. This leads to them not talking for several days. During this time, Virion takes over helping Tessia's assimilation process to her Beast Will while he is in Xyrus.
  • Note: Tessia kissing Arthur is exclusive to the webcomic and is not included in the novel.

• An Investigation: While Arthur is recovering, two Lances, Bairon and Alea, are tasked with investigating the mutant mana beasts spotted around the Beast Glades. They use Xyrus as their home base for this operation and use Director Goodsky as their contact for this mission. This mission goes on for months. during one expeditions Bairon finds evidence that servants of Alacrya have made it to Dicathen.

• Professor Leywin: After roughly three days of recovery, Arthur is now up and moving. He visits his new private training room with Elijah and learns of Gideon’s new invention, the training robot Tobi. They begin training with Tobi, though Elijah is haunted by his memories as Nico starting to resurface. Afterwards, Arthur goes to class and after exhausting himself has to be aided by Kathyln to get to class. Upon their arrival, Arthur is hated (due to them being jealous of him being aided by the princess) by the class and challenged to a duel by an upper classmate whom he easily deals with. Arthur then begins teaching and the class proceeds with little resistance. After ending class early, Arthur meets up with Kathyln who apologizes for her family and Arthur accepts, despite never really holding a grudge. They talk and eventually part ways as friends.
  • Note: Tobi is exclusive to the Webcomic and does not appear in the novel.

• Immature: While director Goodsky is busy, Arthur goes to help Tessia with her assimilation. Afterwards Tessia tries to talk to Arthur about her confession. Arthur tries to joke around about it and overall has an unserious attitude about the whole event. This understandably frustrates Tessia, leading to her calling Arthur out on his emotional fragility and immaturity. She also calls Arthur out on how he treated Lilia’s feelings all of which strikes a cord within Arthur. She then leaves in tears, leaving Arthur alone.

• A Unfortunate Incident: During the next few days Arthur’s spends a good bit of time thinking about Tessia's words while she herself is depressed about it all, resulting in both skipping some classes. During this time, Arthur is attacked one of Lucas’s cohorts named Marcois Hutchom. Marcois, sometime prior, had taken a potion made from a Demon Leech that traded life force for mana. It was given to him by either Draneeve or one of his subordinates. Sylvie makes quick work of him but a few days later, Marcios dies due to the potion and mysterious runes on his body. Several other such incidents happen around the school. While Arthur and Claire are on their way to report this matter to the director, they run into lances Alea and Bairon who are making a report to Goodsky. At this point, Goodsky has realized Agrona is putting his plans into motion earlier than she had anticipated. As such, she begins hunting Draneeve's agents in secret.

• A Meeting of Brothers: While Arthur and Claire are making their report, Bairon meets with his younger brother Lucas. After Arthur is done he runs into them but does not approach. He involuntarily directs some bloodlust to the pair and is immediately threatened by Lance Alea for doing so. Arthur is shown to be no match for her and gives up. They then peacefully talk and Alea begins to see her deceased younger brother in Arthur and warms up to him. They then part on friendly terms. The two lances then continue on with their investigation about the corrupted mana beasts.

• DC Regroup: A day later, the Disciplinary Committee meets to discuss the events involving Marcois and they decide to reorganize their patrol. They all recieve artifacts in the form of small daggers that serve as distress callers.

• Reconciliation: During Arthur’s fighting mechanics class, he is told to observe and recover with Tessia. While with Tessia, they talk about what happened and he admits he was wrong to disregard her feelings the way he did. He then asks Tessoa to give him time to work out his feelings for her. She agrees on the condition that Arthur can’t date anoyone else in the meantime. Arthur agrees, mending their relationship. To seal his promise with her, he kisses her forehead. This establishes the final connection point needed to establish Tessia as the vessel for Cecilia. Agrona finds out that Tessia is the Legacy and, unbeknownst tot both Arthr and Tessia, orders Draneeve to capture her alive and bring her to Alacrya.
  • Note: the previously described events either happened differently or not at all in the Novel. The Demon Leech potion plotline and the lances showing up did not happen at all in the novel and how Arthur reconciled with Tess plays out differently with it happening in the same day and with it ending with a peck on the lips rather than a kiss on the forehead.
• Alacryan Plotting: During a patrol, Arthur discovers two students vandalizing a wall in the name of racism. He beats them up and Theodore takes them into custody. Arthur later discovers one of Draneeve's spies and gives chase, however Kai intercepts Arthur and lets the spy get away. This makes Arthur suspicious of Kai. Theodore is attacked and knocked out by an unknown assailant, likely Kai, letting the captives he had under his watch escape. These event are orchestrated by Draneeve to gain followers from Xyrus for his eventual attack on the shcool. During this time, Goodsky, along with Avier, is actively hunting all the Alacryan spies they can find.

• A Moment of Peace: Some time passes and Alea and Bairon meet with Varay to discuss what to do next. It is decided that Alea will go herself along with a small force to investigate the dungeons where Bairon found evidence of Alacryan presence. Around the same time, professor Glory chooses Widows Crypt as her class's first dungeon dive. Elijah starts experiencing increasing fragments of his memories as Nico, filling him with anxiety and anger. He grows increasingly distracted by this and develops a subtle irritation at Arthur. The next couple of weeks are calm and uneventful, and the mid-cycle exams are approaching. In preparation for a dungeon excursion with the class led by professor Glory, Arthur and Tessia spend time with his family at the Helstea Mansion. Tessia and Alice have a private conversation about Arthur after which everyone goes off to bed. During this time Alea and her team fight a corrupted Hades serpent. Unfortunately, after defeating the serpent, they stumble upon Uto and are all annihilated by him. Alea, after landing a solid blow to Uto's horn is dismembered, mutilated, and forced to listen as Uto then slaughtered her comrades. The very next day, Arthur and his classmates leave on their dungeon excursion.

• Widow's Crypt: Arthur and Tessia, while on the dungeon dive, are assigned to be a group with Lucas, Clive and Roland. After a small debate, Tessia is chosen as the team leader. They soon encounter the first mana beasts, snarlers. There are more of them than what was expected, and as a result the class starts to struggle, even with the help of the professor. Professor Glory orders a retreat, but Lucas argues against this decision and after some heated discussions, they decide to persist. However, soon afterwards they must retreat for real, as two Widow Queens unexpectedly show up. The professor holds them off while the majority of the students escape. The situation grows more dire as smoke builds up in the cavern due to Lucas' overuse of fire spells along with the airways being blocked by the mana beast corpses. One queen is slain, but its corpse is consumed by the other, causing it to evolve. Tessia during this is taken out of commission because of her beast will and is escorted of the battlefield by her team. Arthur and the professor fight the queen in order to buy some time, and in doing so Arthur reveals his fire elemental affinity and lightning deviant. Just as they are about to exit, the evolved queen grabs Arthur's leg and explodes, sending Arthur down a deep chasm. He barely survives the fall thanks to his beast will and the queen is killed by the fall.

• Alea's Fate: As Arthur explores the tunnel he landed in further, he finds a large, open cave filled with the skewered corpses of a battalion of Dicathian battle mages. To his horror, he also finds lance Alea grievously wounded. Her left arm has been ripped off, along with both of her legs. her eyes have been plucked out as well and her mana core has been pierced throught her back out her front. As she dies in Arthur's arms, she manages to share a visionof her memories with him, showing him what happened. They had been investigating foreign mage activity when they were ambushed by Uto, who killed them all, except for Alea whom he tortured. She gives Arthur two things before passing away; a piece of Uto's horn and her pendant marking her as a Lance. She passes away, crying in Arthur's arms. Arthur buries the bodies and escapes with the help of Sylvie. While this is happening professor Glory goes to the Leywin family and promises to find Arthur. Virion begins assisting Tessia with the final steps of her assimilation. This however, results in her beast will lashing out. The Glayder siblings report to the Disciplinary Committee what happened in the dungeon.

Volume 4: Horizons Edge

• Arthur's return: after finally getting out of the dungeon he immediately makes his way to his family. Upon his return he has a private conversation with his father that results in Arthur breaking down and crying In front of his dad. afterward Arthur goes inside the house and is greeted with his mother and sister who cry in his arms. Later Arthur in his room has another conversation with his dad were he says his family is proud of him for putting the lives of other ahead of his own. Arthur later on meets up with Cynthia Goodsky where he explains what happened and gives her Alea's lance pendent. she tells Arthur to be quiet about the whole thing while she reports this to the council. she also tell Arthur about how Tessia is doing and that he should focus on being there for his family and not to worry about Tessia or about what happened to Alea. She then makes her way to the council to explain the situation making sure to keep Arthur's name out of all of it.

• Several First Encounters: The next day 3 important first meeting accurse. First it is suspected that it was around now that the Glayder royal heads and the Greysunder royal heads had first contact with Agrona through his subordinates. In this meeting Agrona promises the royal families money power and a new beginning if they agree to work with him. The Greysunders agree whole heartedly while the Glayders are more hesitant. At this point the asuras have finally decided to take a more active role in Dicathen and two asura's are sent, to make first contact with Arthur, disguised as as lesser elixir merchants and make a fake elixir store as a front. While this is going on in a way to make up with his mother and sister they all go out shopping. Arthur eventually asks Tabitha Helstea where to buy elixirs. she recommends a spot and Arthur ditches Sylvie to go check it out. He meets the odd asura pair. one being in the form of an old man who we don't know the name of (but it was probably Aldir in disguise) and Windsom in the form of a galaxy eyed cat. The old man, after conning Arthur out of a silver coin, offers him any one thing in the store. During Arthur's feeble search to find anything of value Sylvie comes in and scratches Arthur for ditching her, the old man recognizes who and what Sylvie is. He then decides to give arthur a mana elixir pearl and shows the pair out of the store. They are then followed by windsom. After returning to his family he explains what happened and they all go back to the elixir store only to find it vanished and replaced with the actual store Tabitha recommended originally. Finally Lucas meets with the head spy of Alacrya Draneeve thru a common associate Charles Ravenpor. Draneeve offers him a place in his camp and Lucas is mildly disrespectful causing one of Draneeve's men to speak out of turn leading to Draneeve burning the man alive killing him slowly. Lucas, not concerned about the morality of the act, is fixated on the raw power Draneeve displayed. He asks what Draneeve wants with him and he says he needs Lucas's help to take down the schools. He explains he needs more man power if he's going to take down the school the reason this is a problem in the first place is because Director Goodsky has been hunting Draneeve and his agents. Lucas asks why he's doing this in the first place and the real reason is to land a solid first blow to Dicathen and take the vessel of the legacy. However the reason he gave can basically be summed up as racism which the whole crowed cheer on. Lucas, unconvinced, almost leaves until Draneeve adds in it'll be a great opportunity for Lucas to finally get back at Arthur. after this Draneeve divulges his plan to take Tessia to rile Arthur up. Lucas after hearing this is then fully on board with Draneeve.

• Tessia's Core: The next day arthur goes to Xyrus to see how Tessia is doing. Upon arrival he discovers Tessia still hasn't fully assimilated with her beast will and that this assimilation is far different from any other. When arthur attempts to help he is nearly killed by the beast will. After a while, Arthur decides to try and use his sword. However, instead of his sword, the elixir comes out and fly's inside Tessia's mana core. This stops Tessia from dying and stabilizes her beast will completing her assimilation. The elixir also rapidly purified her core get her all the way to peak yellow. This will inevitably make her the youngest silver core in history. Tessia, after falling asleep, wakes up and thanks arthur for saving her and after realizing she is naked freaks out. This triggers her beast will causing mass chaos and Arthur proceeds to make it worse by talking until she eventually calms down and after inspecting her core passes out again.

• A Talk of Deities: After tessia is taken infirmary virion and arthur have a conversation. Arthur asks where the lances came from and how powerful are they and virion then gives a brief explanation of early dicathen history and explains how the lances and their artifacts work. This also bleeds into a conversation about the asura. virion explains that sylvie as a Dragon is a deity. Virion then says arthur needs to get stronger if he's going to survive the coming conflicts. Virion says he'll take tessia back to elenoir so that their family can decide what to do next. Arthur leaves and goes to where the fake elixir shop was and finds another elixir with a note saying if arthur wants to know what's actually going on he should go to the western teleportation gate at noon. After a brief meal with his family he leaves for the gate.

• An Important Meeting: Arthur, after going through the portal, is taken to an alternate space by windsom. Arthur, confused, is then paralyzed with fear as windsom reveals himself. after arthur recovers they convers. The conversation has a few key points: Arthur learns about the basic structure of Epheotus and about agrona's actions in alacrya. He also learns about sylvie's origins and how she is the daughter of sylvia. After this windsom makes it clear arthur has a much bigger role to play in all this due to his beast will and bond, windom then says arthur and sylvie will both have to go to Epheotus. He refuses for now and proceeds to elenoir. windsom continues to monitor arthur and sylvie

• Meanwhile: during this time Cynthia Goodsky is being grilled by the council over the death of lance alea in this she refuses to give up arthur after the meeting she is attacked by alacryan spies. she kills them easily and after interrogating one of the spies she learns Agrona's time table has been moved up from decades to years. elsewhere the disciplinary committee is having a meeting about the xenophobic terrorist group causing chaos. after much debate Elijah walks in and tries to tell them arthur is back. however they are interrupted by a loud boom. they go to investigate and find the tri union hall on fire which was caused by the xenophobic terrorist group the committee had been dealing with. this sends everyone into a panic. after confronting on of the students responsible they then have to let him go do to a lack of evidence. after this Elijah tells the disciplinary committee about arthur being back. later on Elijah is training in Arthur's private room. during which more of Nico's old memories begin to surface.

• In Elenoir: after arthur finally arrives in elenoir he is gets harassed by some shady characters. he deals with them easily. he then arrives at the Earilith estate. while arthur was on his way tessia and virion began training with her beast will. this leads to her losing control of her beast will as arthur arrives. arthur then steepen to save her with the help of virion. he does but tessia ended destroying a large section of the Earilith estate leading the trio to take refuge in a hotel. arthur and tess then try investigating her beast will and discover it is quite abnormal. instead they decide to depart to meet with elder rinia and ask for her advice and potentially get a mana suppressing artifact. they go by carriage during which tessia fakes being asleep while virion and arthur talk. they eventually discussed tessia and virion askes point black if arthur has feeling for tessia and arthur answers yes but that he doesn't really know what that means. they then arrive near elder rinia's new home with tessia's parents and setoff to see elder rinia.
  • Note: the previously described events are an amalgamation of what happened in the novel and the webcomic. some detail were ignored from each to give the clearest explanation on what happened.
• To Rinia: on their way to elder rinia's arthur and king Alduin Eralith about tessia which ends with the king warning arthur to not grow up to fast and with him telling arthur he approves of arthur and tessia. virion then warns the gentleman about there potentially being traps set by rinia leading to the men being on high alert. then after hearing a disturbance in the bush the group prepares to attach. when whatever the thing sneaking around reveals itself arthur attacks but virion stop him as its elder rinia. after a brief argument elder rinia leads the group back to her cave during which elder rinia ends up bring up Lania Darcassan virions wife causing the an awkward atmosphere that elder rinia later apologized for. this cave was designed to be confusing to stop people from finding her. they all arrive at her place and begin chatting.

• A Talk of the Past and Future: while the group are conversing rinia passes around drugged tea to everyone except for arthur and herself so they can talk in private. the first topic they discuses is how diviners work. tho she doesn't explain the aetheric part of her abilities but she does explain how her abilities drain her life. this later leads in to her explaining what happened with virions wife. she then explains she's been looking into the future and that she has some important advice for arthur. first being that a cornered rat is a real danger. the second was that people do bad thing for good reasons. she goes on to say things are about to get a lot worse so he needs to be careful going forward. they both done talking head to bed.

• Preparation: while arthur was with elder rinia, Lucas and the other in Draneeve group were preparing for the attack on Xyrus academy. during which they discusses the plan going forward. during which lucas takes the life shortening potion. lucas manages to keep control and kills his subordinates. he then begins the final preparations for the attack on Xyrus. during this time cynthia turned herself into the council. she was then imprisoned.

• the next day: after a long nights rest rinia tells the royals that she simply put to much relaxer in their tea. elder rinia then gave tessia a mana suppressing bracelet. arthur then promises to protect tessia while she has the bracelet on. she then revealed that elder rinia had a teleportation portal to of which she allows arthur and tessia to use. as they arrive they see that the aurora constellate had started. they then arrive at the hestia estate where they find the twin horns. tessia then leaves to go to the school while arthur decides to stay with his family. they party and arthur has a chat with helen shard which leads to arthur thinking about what arthur's fighting for.

• The Attack Begins: Draneeve begins his attack on Xyrus. in the disciplinary committee room the members are training in preparation for another attack on the campus. when all the members are in the circle he activates a barrier trapping the whole committee in barrier. they are then attacked by Lucas and his men. once lucas's subornments are taken out Lucas comes in and attacks the committee doing serious damage. Lucas is then given orders to hunt down tessia by Draneeve. after leaving the committee is attacked by kai and his men. Claire Bladeheart then comes up with a plan to escape and they do but Feyrith Ivsaar III and Doradrea Oreguard are unfortunately left behind to secure the others escape and are captured by kai and his goons. doradrea is beheaded while feyrith is simply chained up and awaiting execution. while this was going on Draneeve was attacking the other part of the school with his corrupted mana beast.

• A Series of Critical Moments: the following events are likely heavily influenced by fate to stop Agrona from getting the legacy early. during the initial attack tessia arrives at Xyrus academy. she is then immediately attacked by lucas and losses due to her mana suppressing bracelet. she is pretty badly beaten and passes out and takin by lucas to Draneeve. after entering the premises lucas activates a barrier. during this moment arthur feels the need to go to Xyrus and leaves to see what's going on with sylvie. during this an alert is sent out and the council is notified about the attack. in response three lances (Olfred Warend, Bairon Wykes, and Varay Aurae) are sent to settle the issue. Elijah starts fighting the terrorist. draneeve then reveals himself and doradrea's severed head to the audience. Theodore pissed attacks Draneeve and gets burnt alive killing him. during the fighting lucas shows up with tessia. draneeve begins his speech about his reasons for being here. he tell them that alacyra is coming and that it will be war unless they surrender. as lucas does some rather creepy moves on tessia causing Elijah to reawaken nico from his subconscious. this gave nico access to his sealed ruins. draneeve knowing about nico tries to calm nico down and as nico fails to kill lucas he passes out he catches him and takes him back to alacrya. lucas is given orders by draneeve to exterminate the rest of the staff and students and to make sure to bring tessia when he's done. claire after having a deep internal confict decides take the remaining able body students and attack lucas and his men. claire challenges kai and gets penetrated in the core shattering it and lifting her 10 feet of the ground. at that moment arthur arrives with sylvie in her dragon form. lucas upon seeing arthur tries to mock arthur. arthur ignoring lucas immediately walks to see if tessia is ok. once he confirms she's okay tells sylvie to take care of her. lucas annoyed tries to antagonizing arthur further by threatening to rape tessia. the sets arthur off and intimates lucas. arthur in a cold rage insults lucas calling him a bug. he the activates second phase. arthur and lucas begin to fight. arthur swiftly overpowers lucas showing the entire school that he's a quadra elemental. he severs all of lucas's limbs and lucas in his arrogance tells arthur Elijah is gone. after refusing to confess where he went arthur decided to finish lucas off by crushing his nuts and his pelvis. with lucas dead and the terrorist forces are crushed the battle at Xyrus is now over and everyone present are now fearful of Arthur.

• The Aftermath: after Arthur killed Lucas the lances arrive breaking the barrier. lucas seeing his brothers defiled corpse attacks arthur. he immediately pins arthur down and nearly kills arthur outright and varay imprisoned sylvie in ice. olfred stops bairon from killing arthur. they scuffle briefly which leads to varay stopping bairon herself. arthur is then shackled and has a mana suppression restraint on is core stopping from using any mana at all. Arthur's family show up and is given permission to see them. arthur then comforts his family telling them everything will be ok and avoiding the reason why he's in handcuffs. the lances were questioning the witnesses to see what happened and reporting back to the council. during this Draneeve returns to Agrona with only Nico this leads to him being severely punished and likely heavily tortured for not securing the legacy's vessel. the human and dwarf royal families are told by Agrona to arrest arthur. windsom and aldir learn this information likely before Arthur's arrest. after this varay gets a message from the council to arrest arthur on grounds of excessive violence. he is striped of the title of mage and is to be tried by the council immediately.

Volume 5: Convergence

• The Arrest: arthur now officially arrested has the crowed very split on his actions. Kathlyn in anger addresses the lance and upon seeing the message points out that the arrest warrant was sighed by the human and dwarf king and queen. arthur now needs to be taken to the flouting castle but before that he gets a chance to talk to his family before being sent off. he tells his family everything will be okay. he tells Eleanor to watch over their parents. their meeting ends with Rey telling Arthur they will always be their with him. Arthur then leaves with Varay and Olfred and bairon bringing what's left of Lucas to his family home. Note at some point betern here and Arthurs return Eleonor awakens her mana core becoming a Mage.

• On The Way: Arthur on his way to the flouting castle has a conversation with Olfred Warend. olfred tries to find out why arthur is so strong. arthur dodges the question and they try to get information out of them. they discusses the level of the lances then they make land to rest for the night. elsewhere bairon is taking his brother corpse to his family estate. bairon delivers his brothers remains to the staff then reports to the head of the wykes family his father Otis Vayhur Wykes. he relays the information he got from the witnesses. Otis then sends a letter to the council that puts his son in a favorable light and asked for them to execute arthur. Otis then disregards the death of his son all leaves the funeral to others. bairon then buries his brother and returns to the floating castle. the next day arthur arrives at the floating castle and is taken to face trial Infront of the council.

• Tri Union Council v Arthur Leywin: upon entering the council meeting room the trial immediately. arthur is uncuffed and they then begin laying out the evidence for what happened at xyrus. the council is currently shown to be split the Greysunder wish to cripple arthur seeing him as a potential danger to dicathen given his violent nature, the Eariliths believe they should let arthur off due to his efforts to save the school. the glayders are in the middle mot taking a side. the tensions escalate among the royals and arthur tries to interject. arthur is then removed from the room with much debate. arthur is then taken to a cell where he discovers Cynthia Goodsky imprisoned in the cell next to him. elsewhere the trial ends with the rules resigned to their chambers to decide the final verdict. in this meeting king glayder meets with king greysunder to discuss the orders they were given by agrona to give arthur and sylvie to him. they agree to follow them but king glayder points out king greysunders lie about it being for his people and not personal gain. saying the only reason he went along with it was because of his kids being in danger. windsom and aldir being aware of all this prepare to take immediate action.

• Prison Gossip: arthur talks to Goodsky about what happened Xyrus. cythina then tries to get any information about the perpetrators and any info on the ruins on lucas afterward Goodsky talk about her situation able how she is likely to be used as an escape goat. she then revealed she has a spell in her that prevents her from talking about alacrya and the information she gained as Agrona's head spy. after this they head of to sleep where arthur has a nightmare about everyone he loved being beheaded and put on picks, after waking up in a cold sweat he then is meet by lance Aya Grephin with a letter from the elf royals. the letter says things aren't looking good for his trail but his family is safe with Elder Rinia. the second he finished reading the letter it melted and aya disappeared. after this bairon arrive to takes him to the council.

• The Verdict: as arthur is awaiting his verdict he and bairon get into a scuffle. after a moment bairon brings arthur into the council for to decides his fate. once's he's brought in the council they describe his sentence. arthur is striped of his title as a mage and he is to be imprisoned until further notice. they further clarified that arthur would lose sylvie as a consequence and that had be released once tensions lowered. arthur then deduced the council is trying to trade him away to alacrya. he is then taken back to his cell by bairon.

• Divine Intervention: as arthur is walking back from his sentencing windsom and aldir made their move. windsom got sylvie out of her imprisonment. as bairon leaves arthur windsome teleports into the cell. whille this happed the greysunnders were celebrating their future success. mid celebration aldir attacks olfred jumps in to stop aldir but gets immediately one shot by Aldir. mica then tries something similar and meets a similar fate. aldir then tells king Greysunder to release the lances from their vow of servitude. they do and aldir then executes the traitors. while that's going on arthur and windsom are discussing what there going to do now. they ultimately decide that Arthurs training will be moved up and that he'll need to come to epheotus. their conversation is interrupted by bairon. this leads to a brief fight that ends with Bairon on the floor. Varay shows up and tell Bairon to back up. they then bring Arthur and Cynthia back to the council room with Windsom. the asuras procced to explain the situation and that Alacrya was starting a war. they explain that they've killed the Greysunder and that the dwarven lances are under his control now. that the asuras will assist on both sides but not fight cause if they did the world would be ravaged. they explain the treaty and how Agrona's Lessuran solders are immune from the treaty. Arthur then leaves with Windsom to let Arthur see his family before he leaves.

• A Hard Conversation: on the way to Elder Rinia's cave Windsom and Arthur review the goings on in Epheotus and rehashing what happened with Agrona. upon arriving at Elder Rinia's cave Arthur is immediately greeted by his family. they then hug but its swiftly interrupted by Windom and his passive aura. arthur then asks Windsom to tone it down and he does. after a brief introduction by arthur and Elder Rinia the they thank Windsom. after having some needed family time Arthur asked to talk to his parents in private. once him and his parents are alone arthur then reveals his past life explaining it in great detail. at first Alice is concerned thinking its ether something Windsom told him or the result of head trauma but Rey insist on hearing arthur out even. Rey asked the occasional clarifying question while Alice only listened and got more and more pale. after hearing him out fully Alice has a psychological break as she struggles to fully accept what Arthur said. Rey on the other hand gets a handle on it rather quickly and starts connecting the dots with Arthur's behavior as a young child. Arthur then gives his parents a minute to process what he told them and leaves to hange out with Ellie. after a while Rey comes out of the hut and asks Ellie to look after Alice while he talks with Arthur outside. while they talk Windsom gives a baby guardian beast to Elder Rinia to give as a gift to the Leywin Family. she complies and tells Arthur to make sure he comes back safe and sound. arthur and Rey go outside of the camp and begin to talk about Alice with Rey saying she's asleep . he then explains how now arthur makes sense and how he know he wasn't lying to them after a small prod Rey explodes with emotion asking him all the hard question like whether any of what they had as a family was real or if Arthur killed what would have been the Leywin child this ends with Rey punching the wall shattering it. Rey then apologizes for his outburst. Arthur admits that he doesn't know what happened to the Leywin child and that he thinks its best that they have some time apart. he tells his dad that hell be gone for a few years and he couldn't keep this a secret from them any longer. arthur then says that his previous life may have made him strong but its the people of this world that made him into the man he is today and then he thanks him for being the loving family he never had. arthur then leaves his dad both with tears in their eyes. arthur then meets up with Windsom and Elder Rinia. before he leaves Elder Rinia tells Arthur to not fall back into who he was before saying once he starts slipping it'll be hard to become he once was again. arthur and Windsome then leave for Epheotus.

• Some Good Advice: as Arthur leaves Rey starts going thru his feelings about Arthur's confession. he even starts to wish Arthur never told them. after a while Rey sits down with Elder Rinia where she reveals that she knew about Arthur's past and how she feared the day that he told him. they then have a brief conversation about why Arthur told them with basically saying it was an emotional decision not a logical one and ending with that this was a major step Arthur needed to take to leave his old self behind. Elder Rinia then tell Rey hold on to a the bundle given to her by Windsom holding the baby guardian beast. after a moment Rey opens the bundle revealing the small cub. Ellie then shows up and immediately bonds with the beast and names the bear Boo. Ellie then tells her dad that her mom has finally woken up. upon hearing this he goes to see her. Rey asks if she's alright and she in return asks if she's a bad person. Rey says its normal to have such a reaction to such news while alices cries in his arms. they then discuss whether Arthur is really their son with Rey saying that despite his secret arthur has been their son for years and that they've gone thru to much for that not to be the case. they then hug and comfort each other as they try to sort their feelings on the matter. Ellie unbeknownst to everyone over hears her parents conversation and learns the truth about Arthur's past. Ellie however comes to the conclusion that Arthur's past doesn't change anything about their relationship and that in the end Arthur will always be her brother.

• A Meeting With The Strongest: after being teleported to Epheotus Arthur is immediately taken to Indrath Castle and has an audience with the leader of Epheotus Kezess Indrath. during this meeting kezess takes Sylvie and tells arthur hell be training her while arthur works with sever other asura's. arthur asks how long itll take but he doesn't respond and us escorted out.

• Hand to Hand Combat Instructor Kordri: after leaving the castle arthur is taken by windsom to his new instructor. on the way windsom explains that arthurs training is to be a secret as the fact that arthur is needed is a great hit to there asuran pride. after being thrown into a tree he gets telaported into a cave with a rejuvenation pool where he meets Kordri after a brief introduction windsom pulls out the aether orb. thru then explained how the aether orb worked and how the pool works as well. after explaining they begin to use the orb and begin training. Arthur's training started off with him fighting kordri over and over again in the aether orb. kordri would do the exact same combo over and over again leaving arthur only one way to survive the ordeal. he had to execute every dodge and block perfectly in order to survive. thus lead to arthur dying repeatedly but since this was all done in the aether orb arthur's repeated death only had mental consequences rather then physical ones. after a few months in the aether orb arthur had gotten the basics of what kordri was getting at and to keep arthur sane kordri tells arthur they'll be moving to the next stage. arthur argues back and in response kordri loving shuts Arthur's up by putting his arm thru his chest. they then for the next year in the aetheric orb trained in both swordplay and hand to hand combat while being under the effects of kings force, kordri also limited arthurs mana usage to teach arthur precision. with this tho there first two parts of the kordri's training is concluded and now arthur moves on to the final stage.

• A Spar With The Young Gods: now that Arthur's solo training with Kordri is now complete they are now moving on to sparing with the young asura. the first of Arthur's sparing partners is a young pantheon named Taci. Taci initially protests the idea of training with arthur and is visibly agitated at the fact that arthur is being heavily restricted in their sparing matches instead of him however after a quick correction by Kordri he stops complaining but his opinion of arthur doesn't. they begin to spar and after a while arthur is able to handle Taci alone. Kordri begins to feel a sense of excitement about training arthur and then gets more young asuras to spar arthur. ending with him fighting 4 in total. after another month of this arthur's training under kordri is complete. 4 months of total have pasted in the outside world but roughly 4 years have passed inside the aether orb. now arthur is moving on to the next phase of his training with windsom. however before that arthur says his goodbyes and gets some last words of wisdom from kordri. as they leave Windsom gives arthur a report from Aldir explaining the basic structure of Alacrya's military and that the horn he got from Alea is that of a retainer. however some of that information was outdated as his source (Cynthia Goodsky) had been out of the loop for a while now.

• Woodland Hunting: after their discussion on the state of the war Arthur is taken to a forest in Epheotus. windsom then explains that arthur needs to find, capture, and harvest 3 mana beasts: a raptor squirrel, a silver panther, and titan bear. he also sets limitation like no external mana arts (basically he can't cast spells like fireball but he can augment himself.), he can only use the items in the bag he gave him, and he has to wear a bell the entire time. after a few days of no luck of capturing the raptor squirrel Arthur begins to change tactics. instead of trying to outright catch the beast he instead spends a lot of time studying them. thru this he learns they have an acute senses and can detect even the smallest mana signature. arthur thru this learns to hide his mana signature completely. he then takes this idea even further and unknowingly learns mirage walk capturing the raptor squirrel after only 2 weeks. mirage walk was an ability Windsom had not intended Arthur to learn. after Windsom explains what Arthur has done he sends him deeper into the woods to finds his next target. after 3 weeks he finds Clawed the silver panther. like the squirrels before Arthur struggles with Clawed. however after studying some birds Arthur began to plan out how he'd catch Clawed. he develops the technique of burst step allowing Arthur to move near instantaneously. however this ability comes with a major and at this point unknown downside of causing boarded line unrecoverable damage to his legs. Arthur stalks his prey waiting for an opportunity and waits till Clawed and another silver panther fight. then once the other panther leaves Arthur strikes. in the resulting fight they both fall of the cliff they were on. the fall kills Clawed but after using some wind magic (which was against the rules) Arthur survives. Arthur in the ravine discovers his final target a titan bear. this titan bear was a cub that was infected with a demon leach. this leach amped the cub far above that of even an adult titan bear. the cub and arthur fight and tho the battle was tough arthur ultimately uses his new skills to take down the beast after which he and the beast pass out. Windsom then shows up checks Arthur's condition and recognizes the leach. he swiftly kills the beast and gives Arthur its core boosting his mana core from light yellow to mid silver. he then considering the severity of Arthur's injuries takes him to Lady Myre for healing thus ending Arthur's hunt.

• An Unseen Power: Windsom takes Arthur to see lady Myre and she treats all of Arthur's wounds including reconstructing his internally destroyed legs. arthur is asleep for all this and doesn't wake up till 2 days later. after waking up arthur is shocked to find he can't feel his legs but after some calming words from Lady Myre he calms down. they exchange names and pleasantries she tells arthur he'll need to rest here for a while and he reluctantly agrees. after she leaves arthur discovers he's a silver core and freaks out yet again activating realmheart Arthur for the first time discovers Aether. lady Myre seeing this comes to discuses this new change with Arthur and explains what realmheart is and its affiliations with the Indrath Clan. Arthur then asks about Aether and tho most asura's wouldn't explain what Aether is Lady Myre is to old to care and explains anyway. Lady Myre then takes arthur on a stroll in a wheelchair and explains things about mana and Aether. she tells his about the 3 paths Aether users can take and give arthur in cup of water analogy (which tho flawed is good enough for Arthur to understand the basic idea) to explain how Aether works and how its fundamentally different from Mana. Arthur then asks why the dragons aren't outright stronger than the other Asuras. Lady Myre then explains that Aether has not been mastered by the dragons compared to the other asuras and their abilities leading to them being all roughly equal. this is of course only a small part of the whole more complicated truth but this explanation does satisfy Arthur. she then reveals Arthur's pathway to be Spatium.

• Human Limitation: After explain what Arthur attribute is Lady Myre gives Arthur a warning. the first is that Arthur cannot use Burst Step again as it puts such a great strain on his body that if he does it to many more times he'll likely never walk again. the second is that as it stands he cannot access Aether due to his physiology. the simple fact was that his limitation are currently things he can not control. she then explains that she isn't telling him all this to dishearten him but that he simply needs to understand. after this hard conversation arthur goes to bed and thinks about what's to come.

• A Realmheart Crash Course: the next day Arthur, now recovered enough to walk, meets Lady Myre in the front yard. She tells Arthur that She has told Windsom to wait to pick up Arthur as she would like to give him some instruction. Lady Myre then tells Arthur to attack her with everything he has. in his preparation to do so she calls out everything he is thinking of doing by reading the mana around him. she then explains this is because of Realmheart. they then spend weeks training over this concept during which arthur begins to get the basics of detecting the nature of a spell and what it will do thru Realmheart. Arthur also figures out that Lady Myre has great influence in the Indrath Clan but he has not figured out that she is Kezezz's wife. eventually Windsom comes by to pick up Arthur for his next lesson. At this Lady Myre says that she'll be monitoring Arthur's progress and will stop by on occasion to check in and train the boy. Arthur is then taken by windsom to his next instructor.

• Large Scale Combat Instructor Wren: Arthur walks thru a teleportation portal and ends up in a massive crater. Wren Kain IV then jumps into the crater forms a massive stone mech around himself and grabs Arthur to say hello. after saying hello Wren lets him go and de-mechs to and begins introducing himself. wren then asks if human society has any punishments for tardiness suggesting things like imprisonment or removal of toes. arthur is concerned by this idea but thankfully windsom say they don't. disappointed then wren asks arthur to strip. he does so, I'll be it with great confusion, striping down to his underwear saying he doesn't think wren needs to study his dick and nuts. Wren then studies arthur body while calling him a smart ass and notices Sylvia's Feather on his arm, taking it the second he saw it. wren then says the feather is wasted as an arm band and is better suited as a crafting material. Wren then measure every part of Arthur (minus his Family Jewels) and has arthur do basic spells with each element from different parts of his body. he then has him fight indivual golloms, then a hord of them. after that h tells arthur he needs to analyze his non magical fighting abiliy. Arthur cold asks if he can cloth himself and wren says no but he reasures arthur that he is getting any sexual gratification from this. arthur then per wrens request pulls out his primary weapon Dawns Ballet. Wren recognizing the weapon takes the sheathed sword. wren admires the sword and asked if windsom knew knew his connection to the weapon to of which windsom said he had his suspions. wren then unsheaths the sword to Arthur's surprise. Wren then reveals he made Dawn Ballet. Wren then reveals that he considers the sword a failure and that he ditched it in the Old World on one of his mineral gathering trips. he then explains that even the best weapons made by lessers are inferior to even the worth tools made by the asura. Windsom then interjects asking if the reveal of Dawn Ballet had changed his opinion on whether he'd make an Asuran Weapon for Arthur. windsom seeing Arthur's confusion then explains Wren being his instuctor had two purpuses. one was for his large scale combat training the other was for his ability to craft arthur a new weapon. wren then says he'll keep the sword and the feather. Arthur protest but with the issurance he won't keep Dawns Ballet forever he and Windsom leaves Arthur to do other thing. arthur then sets up camp. while this is happening Wren takes the feather and thru an unknown method makes Acclorite. as Arthur is trying to get some rest he is attacked by Wrens golems. once Arthur has had a moment to compose himself Wren yells down telling Arthur that this part of his training and for him to strip and presume combat. arthur calls him crazy and does as asked. wren then tells arthur that his goal is to take out the golem leader. wren then shows off Arthur's golem allies and that his is a mock battle. by the end arthur wins but with his side losing 271 men compared to the enemy's 520. this not an impressive victory because of the power difference between the 2 sets of golems. after some food Arthur explains the issue might be because its hard to see the golems as people. Wren takes his advice and tells Arthur to go to bed.

• The Hardest Choices To Make: the next morning Arthur is awaken to the sight of Tessia being strangled by a vritra. Artur immediately attacks and tho he saves tess he can't really do anything meaningful to the Vritra. Arthur then figures out that this is just Wren and calls it out. the Vritra and Tess then dissolve as they were just golems and Wren appears. Wren is surprised and mildly annoyed Arthur caught on so quick but Arthur counters saying the entire scenario was rather absurd and that he hopes Wren didn't do all that for fun. Wren then explains he didn't do all this just to be a dick but instead to gauge how Arthur would react. Wren the says Arthur overextended himself with Arthur countering saying that when it comes to the people he cares most about he will do whatever it takes. they then change the subject on to Wren powers wher he explain he can make basically anything he wants as long as its made of Earth. Arthur then explains how he saw thru the golems. the topic of lesser limitation which can be sumed to be tho lesser are weaker by nature he wouldn't say a lesser having the capacity to do what he does impossible but rather improbable using Arthur as an example of such an improbable thing. changing topics again Wren asks for Arthur's dominant hand. Wren then pulls out the Acclorite and explains what it is and that it'll become an Asuran weapon with time. he then, rather violently, jabs it into Arthurs hand piercing it. Arthur then asks why he went with this method given its could simply not work to of which Wrens responds with telling Arthur that they are low on time. he then tells Arthur that according to a new report from Aldir the war has already began. Wren says he's telling Arthur this against Kezess's and Windsom"s wishes because he wants him to have all the facts before he makes a decision. Arthur immediately flips out and try's to leave but Wren tell him that he's simply not ready and says if he gives him one year to train him Arthur will actual give Dicathan a fighting chance. Arthur Agrees to continue his training.

• Meanwhile: during Arthur's training plenty of thing happen offscreen and sense we don't know the exact order they will simply all be said here:
  • Eleonor trains intermediately under Helen Shard in archery using the bow given to her by Tess. in this time her core hits dark red.
    • Alice is mentored under Elder Rinia both in her magic (which unbeknownst to her is an Aether Art) as well as her Phycological trauma.
  • Rey and Alice both work thru their issues regarding Arthur's past life. by the end of the time skip Reynolds has fully accepted Arthur while Alice is still trying but not fully there yet.
    • Sylvie trains with both Kezess and Lady Myre and grows a bond with both. learning more about her family and what it means to be an asura. she also gains the ability to talk and and the ability to use Aether. she also discovers that she has Vivium as her genus.
  • Elijah Knight is taken to Agrona and reverted back to Nico Sever. however Agrona modifies several parts of Nico's mind suppressing any positive memories or feelings involving Grey and amplifying his anger. he is then pronounced as a Scythe of Central Academy to all of Alacrya. he then begins training under Scythe Melzri and Scythe Viessa.
    • Draneeve is demoted to Nico's servant and is often a recipient of his rage which consistently lead to him being basically tortured by Nico and in retaliation he often tried to annoy Nico just get some form of payback.
  • Spies begin to infect more dungeons thru out the beast glades putting the monsters there under their control.
    • Agrona and his Engineers take the Dicatheous kill its crew and reverse engineer the stem engine making an entire fleet of ships
  • Rahdeas is appointed the new representative of the dwarves to the council. with his new position he makes an effort to hid the construction of a teleportation portal in Darv as well as simply operating as a spy for Agrona.
    • Aldir appoints Virion as the war time leader of Dicathen. aldir trains with Virion to insure he's physical and mentally able to deal with strain of his position. Aldir only serves as an advice for the council and leaves them in charge. he also gives Virion a device that allows the two to communicate whenever it is necessary. Aldir during this time has a meeting with Kezess where he learns that Arthur is a Reincarnate.
  • as a response to the Mana beast threat coming from the beast glades Virion sets up a system to have adventures and members of the military clear the corrupted beast as well as look for teleportation portals thru-out the beast glades. this division is referred to as the Trailblazer Division. this division is headed by Jesmiya Cruwer.
    • The Twin Horns participate in dungeon raids acting as a free agent assisting in the war becoming major contributors.
  • the council orders the construction of The Wall a key military outpost that was built to keep out attackers from the Beast Glades. Trodius Flamesworth is appointed commander of the entire operation.
    • Camus Selaridon is appointed as a Unit Head of a his own battalion. Hester Flamesworth is guarding the Kathlyn.
  • The Lances are trained under Alanis Emeria. improving their mana manipulation and overall skills. this training however did not improve their cores.
    • Kathyln Glayder Trained under Varay and learned the spell "Seraph of Snow". she also reached Yellow core.
  • Curtis Glayder trained under Bairon and became a teacher at Lanceler Academy. he also likely hit Yellow core during this time.
    • Tessia trained under Aldir and unlocked the second Phase of her beast Will. she also hit Initial Silver core. she also after a Brief spar with Virion is allowed to join the Trailblazer division. she gets her own squad consisting of Caria Rede, Darvus Clarell, and Stannard Berwick.
  • Emily Watsken begins working Gideon as his assistant. one day a group of adventures find a ship similar to the Dicatheous. this ship was ether damage to the point that the crew abandoned ship or simply had an accident where the crew were sweeped away and died. this ship however did not sink and was found. after some analysis from Gideon he determined that the Alacryan had reversed engineered his ship meaning Alacrya now had a way to attack Dicathen by sea. he later informs the council of this key information.
    • Cynthia Goodsky in attempt to help Dicathen works with Aldir to try and remove the curse. they only prove partially successful to where she was able to give a lot of basic information away but was made comatose by the end of her interigation. unknown to everyone involved Aldir's intervention only slowed the effects of the curse extending her agony and Agrona Thru Ji-ae knew all she had said and could plan accordingly.
  • Seth Milview contracts an illness which without intervention will kill him. this leads to his sister Circe Milview joining the the Alacryan army as a sentry in hopes of preforming an act great enough to get her blood enough prestige to save her brothers life.
    • Caera Denoir becomes an Ascender joined by her two bodyguards Taegen and Arian. the Denoir family (unlike most High and named bloods) choose to not invest much of their resources into the war against Dicathen likely due to advice from Seris.
  • Kezess during this time figures out Agrona's plan to use Arthur and Nico as anchors for the legacy and to have tess serve as the vessel.
    • The Helstea Auction House has served as a Major logistics operator for troops all around the continent.

• A Warning concerning The Dangers Of The Heart: arthur on his final days of training is taken to indrath castle to be reunites with sylive and learns she can talk now. he then has an audience with kezess and lady Myre who now looking much young reveals she is Kezess's wife. kezess then gives a basic goodbye to Arthur but at the end he chooses to freeze time for everyone but the 2 of them so that the two can talk. Kezess than warns Arthur close off his heart when it comes to tess. Kezess then lets time flow and Arthur leaves to get ready to return to Dicathen.

• A Standard Dungeon Crawl: as Arthur's preparing to return Dicathen, Tessia and her unit is raiding a dungeon in the Beast Glades. during one of these raids the Twin Horns show up and meet up with tess. they talk about how the war is going and tess asks how's the wall. Adam Krensh gives an aggressive non answer which results in a stare down between the two. Angela Rose then steps in to deescalate the situation. they then explains the darker parts about war like all the death and torturing people for information. then a man shows up injured to the camp distracting everyone. the man is taken away to be treated. the twin horns and tess's team meet up in the infirmary to see what happened to the man. about 10 minutes later Sayer (the injured man) wakes up freaked out. after calming down they ask what happened and he then explains that his party got wiped out by a bunch of monster however in their exploration he believes he found the S Class mana beasts den.

• A Unsettling Reunion: after finding out where the dean is the camps head Drogo Lambert tells everyone to suit up to raid the dean. the camp prepares for battle and heads out. unbeknownst to everyone st the camp Arthur has finished his training with Wren. Wren knowing Tess is at the camp decide to send Arthur back to the Old World thru a teleportation portal that was inside the S class mana beasts dean. so while the entire camp is heading to the dean Arthur is slaughtering the entire dean. they also took the liberty of telling aldir and virion this is where they'll be sending Arthur. the camp eventually gets close to the deans location then after steading themselves they charge. they fight and with some cleaver tactics make it out relatively okay but this is just the perimeter of the camp and not the main force and they still took some casualties, 10 dead to be exact. once they've taken cared of the wounded and moved the dead they pushed forward. they then push into the the heart of the the dean only to find all the monsters dead. they then push for the door where they presume the S Class beast is hiding and upon open it they find a mountain of corpses and a man siting atop it. that man was Arthur who Tess immediately recognizes. Sylvie than jumps out and hugs Tess. arthur than jumps down saying he is an ally. he explains what happened and when asked about the mana cores he says his bind ate the. then a left over monster from the mound tries to sneak arthur but gets folded in less than a second. Tess and the twin horns vouch for arthur and they then all return back to camp. Arthur than a freshens up and gives his report what on happened to everyone important. after all that the him and Tess get a moment alone where arthur says he missed her to of which triggers a teary eyed hug from Tess. arthur than playfully calls her a crybaby. they then spend some time catching up.

• A Fools Challenge: Darves not believing Arthur actually killed all those monster proceeds to challenge him to a fight the second he's done talking to Tess. Arthur gladly accepts and everyone gather around to watch. Arthur defeats him pretty easily by disrupting him mana channels leaving him paralyzed. Virion then shows up with a poorly disguised aldir and they proceed to talk. they then leave so that arthur can see his family. after walking thru a telaportation portal he is immediately meets a a fully grown Boo. arthur surprised (as before this point Arthur had never meet or knew about Boo) is more surprised to see Ellie riding atop the massive beast. ellie then jumps and gives arthur a hug. Arthurs parent than show up and to Arthur's surprise they embrace him warmly. when asked they say they've spent far to much time on him to give up now. after this touching moment Arthur asks about the massive bear and after a brief exchange challenges Arthur by slamming his Bear paw down on Arthur's collar bone. Arthur shrugs this off disheartening the creature. after getting the rundown on how Boo became Ellie's bond Virion and aldir nug Arthur to hurry up as they need to discuss the current state of the war.

• Righting Wrongs: once they are on the council room Arthur gets the rundown of everything that's happened while he was training. from Goodsky's condition to major conflict zone and logistic. he got an entire summary of everything going on during this war. Virion the n goes on tell Arthur that his family has shown intrested in partaking in the world. however he advised Rey to not participate until Arthur comes back or until Ellie is older. Arthur than inquires on the current Alacryan strategy surmising there is more than what meets the eye. Aldir then reveals the truth regarding the Dicatheous and how Alacrya has reverse engineered it. a man than barges in warning the about the Alacryan feat on the western side of Dicathen. Arthur than runs out the room to ivestigate this matter. he after going thru a teleportation gate to the other side of the contentment he confirms his worst fears that his intervention in Dicathen Technological development has put everyone in danger. Arthur vows to right this wrong no matter the cost. in the infirmary Goodsky is reaching the very end of her life as the curse begins to consume her. she then dies the. virion is alerted and begins to morn his friends death. he puts Goodsky's body in a coffin in the dungeon to prevent word from spreading about her death.

Volume 6: Transcendence

A New Lance: over the next few days.

(To be continued)

Volume 7: Divergence

(To be continued)

Volume 8: Ascension

(To be continued)

Volume 9: Reckoning

(To be continued)

Volume 10: Retribution

(To be continued)

Volume 11: Providence

(To be continued)

Volume 12: Unknown

(To be continued)

Earth (Arthur's Old World)

• Greys Birth: as seen by a time-traveling Sylvie, Grey's birth is influenced by Fate. she then witness his entire first life. Grey is born to a poor family and due to a lack of money, is given up by his parents.

• The Orphanage: Headmaster Wilbeck picks Grey off the streets and puts him in her orphanage. He then meets and befriends Nico and later Cecilia after Grey saves her life during one of her ki-episodes. Grey, Nico, and Cecilia are all accepted into an academy.

• Headmaster's death: while going to get their school supplies, the trio is attacted by unknown enemies who are trying to take Cecilia. After escaping the kidnappers, they return home to find the orange ablaze and headmaster Wilbeck murdered by said agents from another country (later revealed to be Trayden). Grey then swears revenge against the perpetrators

• The Academy: Grey, Nico and Cecilia decide to not go to the academy they first got accepted into, and opts instead to go to Wittholm Academy, a military academy, so Grey can pursue his goal of revenge. While Cecilia and Nico are placed in higher divisions, Grey is placed in division 4, the second lowest class, despite beating his opponent in the exam.

• Lady Vera: during one of Grey's promotional exams he is observed by a woman named Vera. During the promotional exam, Grey defeated his opponent. Afterwards, the judges still rule against Grey advancing to class 1 on account of him not coming from a military family and him not having a significant ki pool. Lady Vera protests this ruling and when denied, offers Grey a chance to be mentored by her. He accepts.

• Kidnapped: at some point after Grey takes up Lady Vera's offer to be her pupil, Grey is kidnapped and tortured by unknown agents about the whereabout of the Legacy. He is later rescued by Lady Vera.

• Burning Bridges: grey, during his training with Lady Vera, grows distant from both Nico and Cecilia. During this time, Nico and Cecilia start a relationship and get engaged. Later on, Cecilia is kidnapped by the government of Etharia. Nico asks Grey to help him search for her but it proves unsuccessful. Grey gives up on finding Cecilia, while Nico continues and eventually gets captured as well. Grey losses all contact with Nico and doesn't find out about his abduction until much later.

• The Kings Tournament: after years of training, Grey finally has his opportunity to become king. He joins the tournament and wins with little resistance. Grey later finds out that Lady Vera was actual paying people off so that Grey would rise through the bracket without problems. Grey than finally learns his final opponent will be Cecilia. Before getting in the ring, however, Grey is approach by Nico who has evidence that lady Vera is responsible for headmaster Wilbecks murder, yet he chose to ignore Nico and proceeded into the ring anyway.
  • During Grey's battle with Cecilia he is completely overwhelmed and overpowered by her. However Cecilia never planned to win the fight and instead choose to kill herself on Grey's blade to save Nico from being used against her. Nico sees this all take place, however he doesn't know that Cecilia killed herself, and rather believes Grey simply killed her in his quest to become king. Lady Vera and her cohorts then break into the area in attempt to take The Legacy, aka Cecilia. After seeing Cecilia dead, they retreat.

• King Grey: after the events of the Kings Tournament grey is still ultimately given the title of king, however he himself does not feel worthy of this title and to cope, engages is meaningless pleasures and relations to try and feel what its like to be loved. During thin time, he also does take his revenge, destroying Trayden, for headmaster Wilbecks murder. This leads to the deaths of millions. During this time Nico is planning an assassination attempt on Grey so he can get his revenge for what king Grey did to Cecilia. However before this can happen, Grey is reincarnated by Agrona at age 38. Nico is also later reincarnated by Agrona, as well as Cecilia. grey's reincarnation is interrupted by a time traveling sylvie so instead of being reincarnated in alacrya he was reincarnated into the leywin family.

• A New Reality: due to Arthur using Fate, Nico and Cecilia have been reincarnated into their first lives and are now married and running an orphanage in Etharia. All previous events remain the same, but Arthur had still managed to put them back into their bodies.
  • Though Cecilia is still recorded to have died in her duel with Grey, and the wars Grey waged are recorded in the history books, the world still goes on, with Grey's sudden disappearance also noted in the books. The couple has all their memories left, and spend their days running the orphanage as a way of repenting like ordinary people with no ki or mana.