They defeat Nachtigal, the king of La' Schugall trying produce Gin for power; butt heads on ideals with Gaius, king of A' Jule and actually a good guy just extreme; meet Musee, Milla's unknown sister and Greater Spirit who basically opens rifts through space, makes black holes, seems disturbingly mellow but is actually batshit; and work to stop the plans of the group Arkunoa/Arc Noah(Exodus in the local) who want to return to their advanced world of Elenpios, where Alvin is from, and take Rieze Maxia's mana energy with them, since there are no Spirits, mana or anything to sustain the world there after their over-usage of Gin has drained it all. However, Rieze Maxia is isolated from everything else by the Shell, a separation of space that has been kept secret or tried to be, and is tied to Maxwell's existence... which means they naturally try to kill Milla to get back home. They get demolished instead, but Milla gives up her life regardless to save all her important people from getting killed by Musee, even knowing that it will open the way for more like Arc Noah to come over and try the same, but believes Jude and Gaius can take care of it.
Except the Shell doesn't fall at all, because Milla wasn't the real Maxwell even though she honestly thought she was. Jude and co. figure this out, start looking for the real big guy in order to get explanations, and find out that 2000 years ago the true Maxwell got sick of the people of Elenpios killing Spirits, so he created Rieze Maxia and people could use mana as artes so they wouldn't resort to stuff like Gin, migrated all the remaining Spirits over and sealed it off. When Arc Noah unintentionally broke through and got stuck there 20 years ago, Maxwell knew they would come for him, and created Musee to protect the Shell from one side of space, then Milla to be an expendable decoy Maxwell and had the Greater Spirits follow her so humans would believe she was the real deal, and permanently holed up in his realm where he keeps the world ticking along.
The party calls him out on abandoning Elenpios to die, Milla is reborn as a Spirit and calls him out on it, and after getting kicked across the screen the old man finally agrees that maybe he should dissolve the Shell and use the mana left over from that and when he dies to help Elenpios out. Except Musee, who has been killing everybody who knows about the Shell because it's her MISSION to keep it safe and secret, freaks and calls Maxwell out on essentially throwing her away-- if there's no Shell, she has no MISSION, and no reason to exist. Gaius is also less than impressed with all of Maxwell's actions and decides he can do it better, putting him at immediate odds with Milla, who believes a normal human doesn't have what it takes. Musee decides everything before any fighting can break out though, by literally pulling the Spear of Kresnik out of thin space and incapacitating Maxwell with it, then hurling the party over to Elenpios to get rid of them.
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Except the Shell doesn't fall at all, because Milla wasn't the real Maxwell even though she honestly thought she was. Jude and co. figure this out, start looking for the real big guy in order to get explanations, and find out that 2000 years ago the true Maxwell got sick of the people of Elenpios killing Spirits, so he created Rieze Maxia and people could use mana as artes so they wouldn't resort to stuff like Gin, migrated all the remaining Spirits over and sealed it off. When Arc Noah unintentionally broke through and got stuck there 20 years ago, Maxwell knew they would come for him, and created Musee to protect the Shell from one side of space, then Milla to be an expendable decoy Maxwell and had the Greater Spirits follow her so humans would believe she was the real deal, and permanently holed up in his realm where he keeps the world ticking along.
The party calls him out on abandoning Elenpios to die, Milla is reborn as a Spirit and calls him out on it, and after getting kicked across the screen the old man finally agrees that maybe he should dissolve the Shell and use the mana left over from that and when he dies to help Elenpios out. Except Musee, who has been killing everybody who knows about the Shell because it's her MISSION to keep it safe and secret, freaks and calls Maxwell out on essentially throwing her away-- if there's no Shell, she has no MISSION, and no reason to exist. Gaius is also less than impressed with all of Maxwell's actions and decides he can do it better, putting him at immediate odds with Milla, who believes a normal human doesn't have what it takes. Musee decides everything before any fighting can break out though, by literally pulling the Spear of Kresnik out of thin space and incapacitating Maxwell with it, then hurling the party over to Elenpios to get rid of them.