Story

Context

During the events of a celestial war, the Goddess Diche breaks away from the war after her brother Orbis dies. She builds a world on the body of Orbis, creating the world that Epic Seven takes place in. However, her other brother IIyros disagrees with her leaving the war and attempts to bring her back by sending the Archdemon to destroy the world that she created. To counter this, Diche creates heirs, people with more power than the average residents of Orbis. She also creates guardians to aid the heirs in defeating the Archdemon. She creates a heir to represent herself, Ras Eclare, who is named The Heir of the Covenant. Every time the heirs fail to defeat the Archdemon, she 'resets' the world by fixing the destruction and wiping everybody's minds of the defeat.

Prologue

The Heir of the Covenant and the heirs with him, Ruele and Kise are preparing for the fight with the Archdemon. Their comrade Vildred, who has been travelling with them thus far decides to stay back to clear the monsters and urges the heirs to defeat the Archdemon. Unbeknownst to the heirs, Acolyte Kayron appears before Vildred before killing him whilst he was fighting. The heirs travel ahead and begin fighting the Archdemon. However, during the fight, Ruele is killed after her barrier is shattered by the Archdemon. The fight suddenly flips around after the Archdemon killed Ruele and all the heirs are killed in the fight. Diche resets the 6th world, and creates the current scenario, the 7th world.

Episode 1: Heir Of The Covenant

Chapter 1: A new begining

Two decades later, Ras wakes up in the World's End Pub, surrounded by the bar owners. He is told that he had slept for the past twenty years and was moved to the pub due to the lack of funding to keep him in the Tirel Castle. He is greeted by Vildred, who is suspiciously still alive and noted by Ras that he hasn't changed his appearance since the battle with the Archdemon. Vildred escorts Ras to Tirel Castle, meeting the young Prince Aither and one the heirs Iseria. Together, they find his guardian Arkasus, who has been living off snacks for the past two decades. Arriving at Tirel Castle, Ras is granted an audience with Queen Diene, the person who ended the Archdemon War. Diene explains that she merely separated the Archdemon into parts, with them all being held in sanctums in different areas of Ritania. She offers to take Ras to the Ezeran Sanctum the next day to destroy the Archdemon's Might held there. Before turning in for the night, Ras meets a wraith hanging around the gardens in Tirel Castle. She tells Ras that her name is Mercedes and is being kept at Tirel Castle under the hospitality of the Queen.

The next day, the party sets out for the Sanctum accompanied by Vildred and Mercedes. However, tragedy strikes when Vildred kills Diene after Ras tells Vildred his resolve to keep opposing the threat of the Archdemon. Vildred absorbs the Archdemon's Might and escapes as a traitor to Ezera.

Chapter 2: The Fearless Girl

Despite the death of Queen Diene, Ras heads to Reingar with Mercedes and Arky. They save a merchant named Gusma and he leads them to the entrance of Reingar. However, upon arriving at Reingar, they find out that their identification documents have been taken and are branded as illegal aliens and end up in an interrogation chamber. There, down in the chambers, they meet Yuna Woo, another heir and the next President. They find out that she has been resisting efforts to become the President and is in the chambers due to her creations running berserk. She asks them to help her break out because she is worried that the Reingar Security Club might break her machine. They help her escape the interrogation chambers and tracks down her malfunctioning creation. They discover that the interference was from a Dark Stone, leading them to return back to Reingar to announce their discoveries, only to discover that the merchant Gusma and a member of the Security Club were planning to summon an Acolyte to become the President of Reingar. Ras is unable to prevent the summoning and Acolyte Tenebria is summoned. She proceeds to destroy half the city in exchange for handing over the position of President over to Plum, the member of the security club who summoned her. Yuna, who finally acknowledges her position as President, summons Kazran. Kazran reverses time to undo the damage and Tenebria, who is unable to keep her current form, leaves. Yuna becomes the President of Reingar and Ras destroys the Archdemon's Might.

Chapter 3: The Encroaching Shadow

Ras, Arky and Mercedes head down to Savara to investigate the trading situation of the Dark Stones. Along the way, they run into Cartuja, a mercenary heading back to Ki Rubaran, the main town in Savara. They are picked up by the representatives of the Afih merchant guild after they are attacked by a mercenary and meets Purrgis, a Suin claiming to be a heir and that his guardian was missing. They investigate the sewers of the town and find Vildred, who has slain the guardian Hainen and run into a homunculus who resembles Kise but is named Sigret. They fight her but fail to catch up to Vildred. Purrgis proceeds to betray the group and attacks them to make time for Master Nehenqui, the mastermind behind the Dark Stone trade, to get away. When they finally catch up to him, they find that they have a hard time pinning any of the crimes done by Nehenqui. The Afih merchant guild requests Ras to investigate the origins of the Dark Stones.

Chapter 4: A Quietly Permeating Darkness

Teaming up with Cartuja, the group heads into Solayu Swamp to investigate the origins of the Dark Stones. They discover that Suin have been kidnapped erratically. Mercedes at this point is struck unconscious from the large amounts of dark energy flowing out of the forest and is visited by visions of people mistrusting her and considers joining the Archdemon. However a vision of Ras appears telling her that he trusts her and she wakes up. Ras and Cartuja discover that the cause of the Dark Stones were from the Ilyros Church, where they've sacrificed Suin to create Dark Stones. They free the remaining Suin and imprison the Head Priest, but not before Acolyte Nilgal was summoned.

Chapter 5: A White Flower Blooming In Winter

Dun Blyraia is under attack from Acolyte Nilgal and Ras heads there immediately after the events in Solayu Forest. They are backed up by Iseria who is reluctant to return to Dun Blyraia after abandoning her comrades during the previous Archdemon War. She voices her extreme dislike to Ras due to him being extremely indifferent despite the many losses that they had suffered during the previous Archdemon War. Ras tells her that he keeps himself indifferent despite the many losses he had suffered to maintain hope among the residents of Orbis. They arrive at the area which is under attack and meet Saria, an elf Elder who Iseria had abandoned during the war. Regardless of the events that happened after that, Saria forgives Iseria for her actions and Iseria regains her resolve to fight Nilgal. At this point, Zeaon, the guardian of Iseria appears after ignoring her requests to fight due to her cowardice. Nilgal attempts to detonate the dark stones spread out all over Dun Blyraia but is stopped by Saria. Nilgal then decides to detonate himself, hoping to take out the Heir of the Covenant in the process. He fails and returns to the underworld. Ras and Iseria gather up all of the injured elves and heal them up under the World Tree. However, Saria succumbs to her injuries and dies. Ras heads to the sanctum and instead of destroying the Archdemon's might, learns from the World Tree that the Archdemon's Might is similar to his energy, and converts it into the power of creation and absorbs it.

Chapter 6: A Dream In The Mist

Arriving at the South Wetheric Moor, Ras, Arky and Mercedes head to the Order Of The Shield's fortress situated there. The Order of the Shield is already waiting for them. However, it seems that Crozet, the leader of the Order was encaptured by a girl who had passed the checkpoint that day. They had allowed her into the fortress after Crozet allows her to pass. It turned out that Tenebria had managed to acquire a more stable form in Orbis and had tricked the knights into allowing her into the fortress which the Sanctum was based around. She tricks all of the knights into attacking Ras, Arky and Mercedes using illusions as well as killing all of the villagers that were in the vicinity. As they are freed from the illusion, they are shocked from what they've done. Crozet is then tricked into fighting Ras, whom he defeats and goes after Tenebria. She casts an illusion on Ras, Arky and Mercedes, showing them what it would be like if they defeated the Archdemon without any sacrifices. None of the inhabitants within the illusion can see Mercedes and Ras breaks the illusion after stating that the real world cannot be like the illusion. Tenebria is killed by Ras shortly after they break free of the illusion and proceed on their way to the North Wetheric Moor.

Chapter 7: The Sentinel And The Traitor

Arriving at the North Wetheric Moor, Ras discovers that one of his former allies during the previous Archdemon War had been captured by Vildred and taken to a Land of Death. The ally is a priest named Morfih and is the protector of the sanctum in the Moor and is a devout believer in the Goddess. They find Morfih apparently unharmed in the Land of Death, with no sign of Vildred and he leads them to the sanctum. He insists that Mercedes should stay out of the sanctum, due to her being as a homunculus and Ras leaves her to wait at the entrance of the sanctum. While waiting, Mercedes is attacked by Sigret. Sigret asking Mercedes to abandon her emotions and join the Archdemon. she refuses and Sigret escapes. On the way to the sanctum, Morfih betrays Ras, telling Ras that he now knows the truth behind Orbis and seeks to help Vildred break its cycle. Vildred appears and absorbs another fragment of the Archdemon's might and fights Ras and nearly defeats him until Mercedes appears, teleports Ras and Arky away and sacrificing herself in the process.

Chapter 8: Requiem For The Dead

Ras wakes up in a forest surrounded by Iseria and Yuna, both of them sent by the Order of the Sword. Ras tells both of them the truth about Orbis but both heirs dismiss losing faith in the Goddess, unlike Vildred and Morfih. They now proceed to the Duselnorc sanctum which is being guarded by Ludwig, the last Nocturne alive. We see through past flashbacks that Ludwig fell disillusioned that his whole clan sacrificed themselves except him. We see that he tries to dispel the barrier on the Archdemon's might, only for guardian Kromcruz to substitute for it. Kayron appears and threatens Ludwig to dispel the barrier created from Kromcruz. Ludwig escapes and pleads to Ras to help him. They dispel the barrier and resurrect Kromcruz using the creation energy converted from the Archdemon's Might. Ludwig forgives Ras and joins Ras out of his clans wishes for him to be free from the duties of the Nocturnes.

Chapter 9: Taranor Intrigue

The party joins up with the forces on Ezera and sits on the border in Western Taranor waiting for Krau to appear. Krau appears after Ras sees soldiers chasing after him. Telling Krau all the events that happened up until now, he takes you down to a secret laboratory, made specifically for the creation of homunculi. Ras learns the secrets of Taranor during the Archdemon War and finds out that the current king of Taranor had gone insane like his father before him and fell into researching homunculi himself. They discover the reserves of Homuculi created to conquer Orbis and escape the laboratory. The party plans to break into Taranor to try and delay the summoning of the Archdemon to make time for the Ezeran Army enough time to arrive. Ras blows the whistle that he gained from Cartuja and they retreat back to the Ezeran frontlines

Chapter 10: For Hope

With the backup from the Ezeran Army and the mercenaries, the Taranoran forces are pushed back and with countless victories against the Taranoran Army, the party manages to make it to Taranor Castle where they encounter Kayron. Telling Ras to get ahead and find Mercedes, the remaining heirs stay back to fight Kayron. Ras encounters Vildred and after fighting him, tells him that he has changed his perspective on the world. Convinced, Vildred lets down his guard and is killed when Mercedes appears and takes the two fragments of the Archdemon's Might back from Vildred. Mercedes, having taken in all of the fragments of the Archdemon, turns into the Archdemon. Ras defeats the Archdemon and disappears during the commotion after the end of the war.

Episode 1 Epilogue: Unrecorded History

After the death of the Archdemon, Ras recovers the body of Mercedes and keeps a fragment of the Archdemon's might in hopes of resurrecting Mercedes. During the epilogue, he travels back across Ritania, searching for a way to recover Mercede's soul tangled in with the Archdemon's might. He discusses methods with the World Tree and finally resurrects Mercedes.

Episode 2: Godkiller

Chapter 1: Path Of Devastation

Chapter 2: Guide Of An Extinguished Flame

Chapter 3: A City Of Blood And Iron

Chapter 4: The Time For Magic

Chapter 5: Restless City

Chapter 6: The Depths Of Despair

Chapter 7: Devoured Star

Chapter 8: Remants Of Destiny

Chapter 9: Advent

=== Chapter 10: Slayer ===