The beginning of the rise of darkness originated from the exiled magician "Tanatos" a hundred years ago. After the Ivan family was destroyed by the San Jose royal family, all the descendants of the Ivan family were killed, and only two former court magicians "Tanatos" and "Hypnos" survived due to their status as magicians.

The mild-mannered Hypnos then left the northern frontier to live in seclusion in the Desik Empire, and Tanatos, a young mage with a violent personality, naturally could not bear such a thing. He locked himself in the spatial magic world of the Ivan family, and he had been for many, many years.

A long time has passed, and no one knows how long, when Tanatos, who was once a young man, walked out of the magic space, he was already a middle-aged uncle, and the exquisite and gorgeous Ivan Manor had long been in ruins, and a large number of wheat fields of the Ivan family had become the product of the surrounding farms.

The era of magic has passed, and the once honorable magicians are just ordinary people on the mainland, no longer privileges, no more high class status, and court magicians are just slaves of the San Jose royal family. If it was the same as more than 900 years ago, the magician just killed an ordinary person, who would be held accountable.

No one thought that after many years of reflection, Tanatos, who had been stubborn since childhood, actually got into a very small bull's horn, and he actually blamed the destruction of the Ivan family on the loss of the status of magicians, and from that day on, Tanatos's pursuit of magic was all transferred to restoring the glory of magicians in the era of the Magic Empire.

Tanatos regained his way back into the ranks of the court magicians. In any case, among court magicians, magic is the only identity, and no matter what Tanatos' origin is or what happened, as long as his magic is still the inheritance of the court magician, he will naturally be able to restore his identity. Tanatos, who henceforth studied magic among court magicians. To outsiders, he seems to be a harmless ordinary middle-aged magician, proficient in space magic that few people know, can faithfully complete the tasks assigned by the Grand Magus, never goes out to perform tasks, and even does not want to go to the royal resort "Cape Island".

However, no one knew that whenever he was on vacation or had nothing to do, Tanatos would return to the Ivan manor, which had been destroyed by fire. At great expense, he redeemed the ownership of Ivan's manor with gold coins, and recruited some slaves to rebuild Ivan's manor. At the same time, Tanatos began to keep an eye out for children with signs of elemental awakening throughout San Jose, and did everything he could to bring them to Ivan Manor.

In the beginning, it may take three or five years to find a gifted child. Over the years, Ivan Manor now had more than fifteen magically gifted children. The children were taught magic by Tanatos, and soon they became another gathering place for magicians just a few dozen miles away from the court magicians of Kyoto Castle.

In his later years, with no hope of revenge, he began to reflect on his actions in this life. Hundreds of years have passed, and the glory of the Magic Empire has long been forgotten by ordinary people, and the descendants of the rebels who occupied this continent are now all emperors, kings, grand dukes, etc., who have enjoyed the aristocratic life for hundreds of years, and ordinary civilians have long recognized the existence of nobles. In such a situation, it is simply impossible to shake this cornerstone on its own.

Fortunately, with these young magicians, they are the inheritors of their own will, and they will follow the footsteps they have taken, maybe not in a year, not in two years, not in ten years, not in a lifetime, but one day, these magicians and their inheritors will become the vanguard of subverting the rule of the aristocracy.

As he lay dying, Tanatos decided to form the magical organization Dark Rising. The organization has only one mission, to develop and absorb more mages and increase the power of mages. At the same time, contact those who have objections to the current aristocratic rule. One day, they will restore the glory of the Magic Empire.

As time passed, many magicians in the Rise of Darkness became court magicians in San Jose, and there were many who traveled to all sides of the continent to find their inheritors, to absorb those who were dissatisfied with the empire and the nobility, and became a member of the Rise of Darkness. Without anyone knowing, Rise of Darkness has become a huge underground organization, growing and growing under the noses of the nobles of various countries.

Thirty years ago, Merlin, a young magician who rose from darkness, became the beloved inheritor of the former court magician leader Archmage, and his talent in magic and his unbridled imagination and understanding made Merlin quickly become the most valued young mage among the younger generation of court magicians. Those court mages who are also members of the Dark Rising Organization with him are naturally sparing no effort to help Merlin to complete the various tests given by the San Jose royal family. Finally, after the death of the previous leader, Merlin became the new leader of the court magicians, the Grand Magus.

Beginning in the days of Tanatos, members of the Dark Rising Order infiltrated court mages from generation to generation, and finally in Merlin's time, this dream came true. What's even more terrifying is that there are only a few dozen court magicians, and most of them are members of the Dark Rising.

This is the result of the Rise of Darkness with or without intention, after all, there are only so many talented magic awakeners.

When Merlin took control of the court magician, the plans of the Dark Rising organization began to accelerate, and Merlin himself was a very intelligent and ambitious man. Beneath his cynical exterior, his ambitions are far greater than those of his ancestors, and restoring the glory of the Magic Empire is no longer enough to satisfy his desires. He hoped that he could become like the Grand Archon of the Magic Empire, the lord of the continent, the lord of magic, and the successor of the will of the Magic Empire.

On the basis of the original Rise of Darkness, Merlin formed a subordinate organization of the Rise of Darkness "Black Dragon Society" with people who were different from his will, and the leader of the Black Dragon Society, Master Arthur, was another magician with advanced magical strength. The mission of the Black Dragon Society is to go to the rebels, careerists and magicians of other countries on the continent to create separatist activities and terrorist acts in different countries of the continent. Merlin himself, on the other hand, uses his position as the leader of the court magicians to search for magical records that can help him in his actions in the many years of treasure collected by court magicians.

These magic manuscripts were all salvaged in the fire of the capital of the Magic Empire, although they are incomplete, but many of them are indeed records of advanced magic, among them, there is a super forbidden spell list. The people of the Magic Empire are really crazy and abnormal, even if they know that these forbidden spells are quite terrifying, they still record them on paper. Among them, they include the "Spiritual Impact", "Blood Forbidden Spell", "Dark Veil" and special magic of the summoning system that appeared on the mainland later, which can create terrifying magical beasts.

Merlin taught them to some of his most trusted mages, and divided them across the continent to run his own plots.

In the process of the rise of darkness, Merlin found a series of magicians in the north of the continent who were in the same vein as himself, and they were the descendants of "Hypnos" who left the north back then. The same magical system made them quickly feel close. Merlin even gave them the position of protector of the north~. However, later, the inheritor of the Northern Protector ~ seemed to be not keen on this, and the contact was gradually broken.

After expanding to a certain level of strength, the Dark Rising began to intervene in the affairs of the continent. The Adventurer's Guild and the Desik Empire are no longer able to suppress the Rise of Darkness with their own strength, and in the past few years, they have successively created terrorist attacks such as the "Manning Incident", the "Westborder Bridge Incident", and the "White Rock City Incident". By assassinating dignitaries of various countries and provoking coups d'état d'état, they gradually extended their tentacles to the royal families of various countries.

During this period, the ambitious Duke Edward, the second prince of Kaiser Wilhelm IV, began to attract Merlin's attention. Under the temptation of Intention, Edward's ambition was infinitely magnified. Merlin even helped them assassinate "Prince Ferdinand", who was blocking his path to the throne. With the help of the Dark Rising organization, Edward eventually staged a coup d'état and succeeded in ascending to the throne of Emperor of the Desic Empire.

Edward's ambitions could not be closed once unleashed, and the invasion of the Merchant Alliance and then San Jose greatly moved the plan for the Rise of Darkness forward. They suddenly realized that they didn't have to do anything at all, and Edward VI did it for them. And at a time when Edward VI's Desic Empire was mired in war, Merlin, who had been waiting for twenty years, and the supporters of the Magic Empire, who had been waiting for a hundred years of darkness and even thousands of years, finally found the moment to strike.

And at this moment, Dark Rising is so powerful that they can easily control the army they want to control. General Wendell in San Jose and General Manstein in Desik are already under their control.

With court magicians and armies, Merlin found that no one could stop him from ascending to the throne of the Grand Consul of the Magic Empire.

On this night, in the sky of San Jose, brilliant magic began to fire in the night sky, and the magic brilliance of various colors and shapes took over the entire sky. Merlin stood in the highest room of the Great Library with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky. The magic was made from the magic scrolls he made, and Merlin was thrilled:

The glory of the Magic Empire is finally on fire once again in the former capital of the Magic Empire.

At the same moment, Mage Setty, who had escaped from Kyoto City, was rushing to the west of the empire. There, there is her heir, Princess Lolita. The San Jose royal family has been wiped out by Mage Merlin, and Lolita is already the only living member of the royal family. And the rebellion of the Western Border Guards made Seti extremely worried about Lolita's situation.

Heavy rain poured down, and the once great San Jose Empire was plunged into the deepest darkness.