Unavoidable Truth

Master, master! I don't understand! You and that Dragon...Afrien just stared at each other with blank looks and then started talking. He said something about sending you into his memory. Did you really see his past?

Yeah... I heard a coversation between Afrien and Afrien from hundreds of years ago.

What happened and how is this related to the Black Mage? Isn't the Black Mage the great person that Hiver said needed to be revived for the good of Maple World? Tell me what happened!

The Black Mage was an evil being who tried to conqure Maple World hundreds of years ago. He realized the great power that the Onyx Dragons held and told them he would complete their incomplete spirits if they betrayed their masters and follow him.

What? That's impossible! A Dragon and his master are one! There is no way that they would betray their masters!

Yes, the Onyx Dragons did not betray their masters. They loved humans and hated the Black Mage, who was evil incarnate. They knew that a spirit completed by the Black Mage would also become evil. That is when the Black Mage...destroyed the Onyx Dragons.

How...how could that be? That's why my entire race is extinct?! That's why Afrien is trapped in ice...?

After the Onyx Dragons were annihilated, Afrien and his master, along with the other heroes, fought the Black Mage to the end. Ultimately, the Black Mage was sealed away and Maple World regained its former peace. However, Afrien was trapped in ice by the Black Mage's final curse.

So everything was caused by the Black Mage? Then what about all the things that we've been doing? I thought they were all for the good of Maple World! Were we wrong? Master! Let's go find out!

The Growth Accelerant that we thought would make the crops grow caused problems for Orbis by making the Nependeaths grow abnormally.

We thought we were helping people by eliminating Zombies, but we were only gathering the material that would used to trade for a stolen Black Key.

We defeated a monster who was guarding an important treasure in Ludibrium, causing the treasure to get stolen.

This confirms it. The Black Wings were only using us. They made us perform evil tasks so that they could revive the Black Mage! I can't forgive them!

The things we did in Orbis, the things we did in El Nath, and the things we did in Ludibrium... All the missions the Black Wings gave us...

Let's look at the consequences of what we've accomplished. Let's go to each town and ask. If we were tricked by the Black Wings... I won't forgive them!

Let's check the results of the three missions we were given by the Black Wings. We can go to each town and ask the townspeople. We have to check Orbis, El Nath, and Ludibrium!