[attr="class","timelineHEADER"]The Looming Storm

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The Wizard King Nero, a Void magic user, has called a meeting with the Captains to discuss the ever-growing tensions with the Diamond Kingdom. Diamond and Clover have had skirmishes on and off for centuries but it has been time since a full blown war erupted. Everyone can feel the aggression and bloodlust in the air–war is coming.

[attr="class","timelineHEADER"]Timeskip

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The war has raged throughout the lands between Diamond and Clover, even into the Forsaken Region. It is beginning to become clear that this war is not going to end, something must be done. For the first time in a hundred years, Wizard King Nero has called for the Royal Knights to be summoned. An exam is to be held among the strongest Magic Knights to determine this team. Their Goal: Defeat the Shining Generals of Ruby and Sapphire. Both of these Generals are in charge of the front line assault into Clover Kingdom. If the head of the snake can be cut off, then perhaps the invasion can be put to a stop.
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During this time, Captain Argentia Silva goes missing. A New Temporary Captain is to be appointed: Nicodemus Silva. (Her older brother) While he had forsaken the life of a Magic Knight after the death of his beloved, the Silver mage is now to both lead the Silver Eagles and this new Royal Knight Squad.

[attr="class","timelineHEADER"]The Royal Knight

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Once the Exams commence, it is an all out battle to determine who will join the Royal Knights and which Knight will be appointed its Vice Captain. Through a fierce battle of determination and willpower, Jett King is appointed the Royal Knights Vice Captain.
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The RK is split into two teams, one led by Nicodemus and one by Jett. (A Team and B Team respectively)
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Both teams are sent behind enemy lines underneath the guise of an attack from Clover, which is all a ruse to provide them a distraction. A team heads for the Ruby General Lawrence and B team heads for the Sapphire General.
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The Ruby General proves to be a frightening opponent with fire and explosion magic, causing vast destruction to the battlefield. With the help of his allies, it is Ardere Kasai with a bit of help from Spatial mage Qrin and Nico himself, who manages to actually take down the Ruby General. In his last moments, as a payment of respect to his opponents, he reveals that Diamond is building some sort of weapon. Whatever this weapon is, it is massive enough to threaten all of Clover.
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The Sapphire General wielding her powerful blade and water magic manages to injure the entire B team, but is soon overwhelmed in her own fortress as the entire squad swarms her. Golden Dawn mages Vulkan and Zave unleash an onslaught of Lava and Shadow as Yuurei and Jett provide massive defenses with their Ice and Diamond magic respectively. Initiating a self destruction spell, she nearly kills the entire team if not for the intervention of Jett King and his Diamond magical defense.
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Much to the dismay of both teams, the bodies of both Generals are taken by the Labradorite General. Both teams being too injured to stop her and her copy magic, she escapes utilizing copied Spatial magic.
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The Royal Knights return as heroes while the main Diamond forces back from the front lines, but the teams know the truth; a greater threat is coming.

[attr="class","timelineHEADER"]The Dungeon Battle

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After spending weeks of recon, the Azure Deer team manages to discover that Diamond has been invading dungeons in Clover to accumulate power, but it is not known why.
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Several teams are sent into the Volcano and Ocean Grand Magic Zones respectively. Battles erupt throughout the dungeons as the Knights attempt to stop them. They manage to prevent them from gathering any relics or treasure in the dungeon, but something more is happening. They are after something else…
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The Volcano Grand Magic Zone is eventually locked down by the Order but the Ocean Grand Magic Zone is lost to Diamond entirely. While their forces have dwindled since the loss of their two Shining Generals, they now have somewhere to stage a sea-based assault. Clover’s only option is to bombard the entire Dungeon with magic. Unfortunately their focus is taken by something else, something far worse.
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Reports of missing people in the Forsaken Region become rampant. The Green Mantis and Black Bulls Squads struggle to keep up with all of the reports. Evidence of these kidnappings being Diamond War related comes to light, leading the Captains to assemble once more. During this assembly the Azure Deer Captain Wren reveals that some sort of massive weapon is coming towards Clover from the Diamond Kingdom, a sort of Palace. Surveillance indicates that this Palace contains magical weapons capable of firing upon cities and decimating large pieces of land. It is also revealed that the kidnapped Clover citizens are being contained somewhere inside of this weapon as a magical power source–they are using our people to power their weapon.
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Also at this meeting it is announced that the Captain of the Crimson Lions Lysander Rouge is retiring and passing the baton to his Vice Captain: Ardere Kasai.

[attr="class","timelineHEADER"]The Shining Stone Palace

[attr="class","timelineBODY"]Three months pass and the Palace has sat silently along the borders of Diamond and Clover, until movement is finally spotted. In three days time this Palace will make its way to the Royal Capital and begin a full on assault. 80% of all Magic Knights are recalled from their posts to perform a joint Defense maneuver. The Crimson Lion and Silver Eagles Captains are to lead an assault on the Castle with the Royal Knights and any high ranking Knights to make it to the higher levels and destroy its power source. The remaining Captains stay behind to join their magical powers in defense of the city, while all other Knights are split between city defense and lower level Palace invasion.
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The day of attack finally arrives and the enemy’s weapon is greater than we could have feared. Magical cannons are to be fired onto the city, easily capable of destroying chunks of the Capital. Former Crimson Lion Captain Lysander comes out of retirement to aid his Captains. Together they form a massive magical shield while Ardere, Nicodemus, and the others are launched towards the mid levels of the Palace. Strangely, the Golden Dawn Captain Arturius is nowhere to be found.
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Unfortunately the Labradorite Shining General with her Copy magic and the Emerald Shining General with her Wraith magic come out to face the Captains. An all out battle takes place as they attempt to fight off the two strongest Shining Generals all while preventing any cannon fire from hitting the city. During this battle, several Captains perish. The Azure Deer Captain Wren is killed defending the Coral Peacock and Purple Orca Captains: Glynda and Jagen who are promptly knocked out after injuring the Labradorite General. The Black Bulls Captain Kuroko utilizes her Glass magic and engages the Wraith General in combat, killing the both of them. The entire field is turned to glass.
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As Lysander watches his former love sacrifice herself and his comrades perish, he makes his stand. Holding back the Labradorite Captain he notices the Shining Stone Palace is converging all cannon fire into one place, utilizing the Palace’s entire power to fire one truly city destroying shot at the Capital. Knowing he will not make it through this fight, he too sacrifices himself by stopping this city ending shot single handedly and dies with honor beside his former beloved.
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Hannibal Barron, the Green Mantis Captain, faces the Moonstone Captain head on after seeing the man he called friend and respected die to save him and the others. The Barron decimates the Moonstone General by overwhelming her with a godly amount of Blood Magic, shredding her to pieces quicker than she could utilize any copied magic.
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Dozens of Diamond soldiers begin to flock to the weakened Captains as the remaining power in the Palace is focused onto them in the form of more magical cannon fire. Jagen Lavender manages to awaken and provide a massive defensive wall before taking out the Diamond soldiers and severely damaging the weapons on the Palace. But they just keep coming and coming until….they stop. Something has occurred on the inside, perhaps their allies? Gathering the surviving Captains, he alongside Barron carry them to safety.
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All the while, Wizard King Nero is personally overseeing the Capital defense from the ground. Hundreds of Diamond soldiers flood into the city, being launched from the Palace itself. He notices the Palace is going to fly right into the City, so he single handedly puts a stop to it utilizing his Void magic. Many have perished and the Wizard King cannot hold out longer, so it is up to those in the Palace to succeed.
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Nicodemus, the now permanent Silver Eagles Captain stands beside the newly appointed Crimson Lion Captain Ardere. Behind them are all of the Royal Knights who fought against Lawrence and the Sapphire General (excluding Qrin the Spatial Mage) plus the Black Bulls Grand Mage Vanilla Blake, Crimson Lions Senior Mage Silas Vermillion, and Coral Peacock Light Mage Gemini.
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Once inside the Palace, they now understand why the Dungeons were under assault–to create rooms of power inside this weapon they mimicked the Dungeons they were stolen from. Ardere and Nicodemus are ripped into a room mimicking an unknown Wind Dungeon. Silas, Vanilla, and Jett are ripped into a room mimicking the Ocean Dungeon. Yuurei, Vulkan, Zaven, and Gemini are sent into a place mimicking the Volcano Dungeon. In each of these rooms lies one or more Shining General. The true battles are now to begin.
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Ardere and Nicodemus engage the Jade General, a man from the Land of the Rising Sun. (Both Ardere and Nicodemus having half of their lineages from there as well made it interesting) The Jade General unleashes Chain magic throughout his windy Tower and Nico is swarmed by two Grand Diamond Kingdom Mages. After a fierce battle, Ardere manages to take out the Jade General and Nico defeats the two Grand Mages holding him back.
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Finding themselves completely submerged in water, Jett engages the Opal Shining General, an elderly Salt user who has submerged them all in saltwater. Meanwhile Silas and Vanilla are locked into combat with the replacement Sapphire Shining General, a Water mage and former Knight who was Silas’ love. Through some sort of Diamond brainwashing technique, they corrupted her. After ferocious battles, the Knights manage to win but Silas and Jett are injured in the process.
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The group of mages that landed in the Lava Dungeon area find themselves face to face with the Moonstone Shining General who reveals himself to be Samson, an Ethereal mage. He sends his two Grand ranked underlings after the group as he observes them, questioning their reasoning for war. He is a General who turns out to be a good man fighting for the wrong cause, but nonetheless they engage in all out battle. Removing his eyepatch, he unleashes an Archmage ranked spell that nearly kills all of the mages in one go if not for Yuurei using all of the strength he has in a well timed defensive spell. After fighting with all of their might, they manage to beat the Moonstone General and Yuurei makes the honorable decision not to kill him but rather arrest him. Knights from the lower floors begin to make their way up and assist. As a token of appreciation for not killing him, Samson reveals to the mages that the real threat is at the very top; the Onyx Shining General Leader and Void magic user Damion Blackwell.
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Ardere, Nicodemus, Jett, Yuurei, Zaven, Vulkan and Vanilla ascend to the top floor of the Palace where they engage Damion. Through a vicious battle, they manage to get him on the ropes before the Void mage reveals something; Argentia Silva. The former Silver Eagles Captain is alive and has been corrupted through the use of Diamond magi-science. In her brainwashed state, she attacks the knights before the Golden Dawn Captain Arturius reveals himself. He’s been searching the Tower for her the entire time.
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The battle seems to be going in the favor of the knights until Damion reveals his true power; the power of a Daemon. Blackwell’s body is inhabited by a Daemon who uses Void magic called Malacath. Malacath actually pushed the Diamond Kingdom towards their war effort and through clever manipulation drove many of their leaders to madness.
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Unleashing all of their power, the knights defeat Malacath and Damion. Argentia attacks Arturius, her love and accidentally gravely injures him. In this moment her brainwashing is undone and she comes to, however Malacath begins to regenerate after the deadly attacks wrought unto him. While Damion is dead, the Daemon survived.
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Before the evil creature can hop into a new house, Wizard King Nero appears in front of the beaten and battered mages. In an intense fight with the Daemon, Nero sacrifices his own body as its new host to save his knights. The Shining Stone Palace’s power source is destroyed and it begins to come down. The remaining Captains take Nero into custody. Here a secret pact is made; only those at the top floor of the tower know Nero is alive and possessed by a Daemon–the rest of the world is told he perished on the top level. Burdened by this secret these mages now know their Wizard King is being held beneath the Royal Palace while the Palace mages look for a way to destroy the Daemon.
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Argentia and Arturius retire to get away from the fight and finally find some peace. The remaining Captains stay to fulfill their duties with a scar forever marked on their hearts.
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The knights who fought in the Palace are held as heroes and all given medals. The Captains who perished and all the knights who fell are memorialized in a monument built near the Royal Palace. A peace agreement is brokered with the Diamond kingdom in the best interest of Clover and the rest of the world. The war is finally over….but those who know about the Daemon get the sense that something darker is on the horizon.

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A year has passed since the end of the Diamond War. Jagen Lavender, the former Purple Orca Captain is appointed as the new Wizard King. The Royal Palace has been rebuilt and the people of Clover are enjoying their newfound peace.
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New Captains:
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Zaven Blake - Golden Dawn
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Silver Eagles - Yuurei (Nicodemus retires after the war)
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Other Captain spots are filled by Temporary holders.
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As the months go by, Azure Deer, Green Mantis, and the Black Bulls begin to report numerous missing persons cases across the Forsaken Region. While it feels reminiscent of the Diamond situation; something is different. These people aren’t just going missing, there are traces of seriously dark magic being left behind. Large dark mana crystals are discovered in the forests around Clover.
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More reports begin flooding in of strange creatures that resemble mana beasts but far darker in nature. Squads are sent to investigate but the problem continues to worsen. Now reports of people who are corrupted by dark mana are flooding in, and there seems to be no cure for this ailment or way to reverse this corruption. The darkness the knights feared is coming, the Daemon are coming.