Magus Wars : Fading

**Magus Wars : Fading** is a Story Arc of the the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in Interra and follows the perspective of champion Tarak and empath Junpei. It follows the continuity of Magus Wars : Wild Hunt.

## Main Arc

### A Fading War

In a peculiar Divine Servant summon, Tarak and Junpei are respectively called by masters Axis and Danny in a town where they are invisible. Furthermore, in the Magus war that has just begun, a peculiar being has emerged, Demeri of Leo, whose abilities as a Servant are far higher than any other's, and who mindlessly hunts any ofther Divine Servants, slaughtering them one after another.

Both Tarak and Junpei barely avoid death due to being saved by Thalie Pinkojo and her master Archimedes, who attempts to recruit as many Servants as he can to counteract Demeri's immense powers. He sends Tarak and Junpei to save Tohkata Miyagawa, who seems to have fallen prey to an insidious, corrupting influence, and they free her and bring her back to Archimedes's refuge, in order to further elaborate plans.

### Saving the Servants

The next step is saving Sagittarius and Taurus servants Rainbow and Mary Maark, who seem to have teamed up, however, when the group arrives, Rainbow and her master have already been defeated in one blow by Demeri. Tarak and Junpei, backed-up by Tohkata's abilities and Thalie's intel, barely manage to rescue Mary and her master Finalys before they are slaughetered, bringing them to safety, for Finalys to explain what they know.

Finalys believes her, as well as the war's other masters, to have been taken away from another world due to a powerful spell, potentially emanating from Asmodeus, a powerful and vicious Elysianan demon. She also believes Asmodeus to have attempted to control Demeri, and using her peculiar Soul to trick the world into a Divine Servant war, of which he planned to reap the profits should he win.

### Plan Against the Night

Finalys also believes Asmodeus to receive the help of another entity, using the powers of the Night Eternal to influence Demeri and corrupt the world into its current state. Takumi Tsukiya, an entity summoned as part of Tohkata's existence, suggests breaking this spell by using the powers of an empath and a mind-mage - and Finalys suggests another Master, Velerys, able to reach Demeri and potentially free her.

However, Velerys is unconscious after using her abilities to sustain not one but two Servants, Shayoko and Aion, and is unable to fend off for herself against Demeri. When Tarak and Junpei try and rescue her, they are instead ambushed by Viper, a Servant who fights them and almost manages to defeat them. This attack, however, turns out to have been a misunderstanding, as Viper believed Tarak and Junpei to have sided with the enemy.

### Viral Takedown

Viper's master, Nathalie Courtabesse, offers her help against the current threat, which the group accepts. They return to Archimedes's headquarters and attempt to devise a plan to help Demeri while helping Velerys with recovering. However, at the same time, death spreads in the city, causing Tarak and Junpei to quickly take action before the entire city succumbs to a mysterious illness.

Said illness has been brought by Corona, a conceptual avatar of COVID-19 illness and a Horseman of Apocalypse, whose peculiar powers prove themselves to be excellently matched against Tarak's own abilities. As they fight, however, they are interrupted by Corona's master being stabbed by Demeri, still corrupted, and whose master turns out to be Nathalie herself - in fact Asmodeus's envoy, a Divine Servant of Ophiuchus and a wielder of the Night's powers.

### Battling the Dark

Nathalie reveals herself to have used them in order to access and corrupt Velerys, using her to take control of several Servants at the same time. She forces Demeri to kill Axis and Danny, before abandoning control over her, planning on using her powers to corrupt the rest of the Servants and end the war as such. However, Demeri, despite being in deep shock, manages to use the rest of her abilities to save Tarak and Junpei's life and send them on a last fight.

Tarak and Junpei fight against Nathalie, but Tarak is in turn infected by Corona's abilities, who plan to use his body as an incubator to revive. Tarak thus destroys his own body in a suicidal assault against Nathalie's corrupted servants, then uses his Determination to persist even beyond death and strike her, distracting her enough for Junpei to use his gift of empathy on her. Her mind and emotions deeply affected, Nathalie disappears - ending the war, with Demeri wishing to undo the war's consequences, and Junpei leaving towards a private dimension.

## Characters

### Servants

* Tarak of Aries
* Mary Maark of Taurus
* Junpei of Cancer
* Shayoko of Virgo
* Demeri of Leo
* Aion of Libra
* Viper of Scorpio
* Rainbow of Sagittarius
* Corona of Capricorn
* Tohkata Miyagawa of Aquarius
* Thalie Pinkojo of Pisces
* Nathalie Courtabesse of Ophiuchus

### Masters

* Archimedes
* Kuzuno
* Finalys
* Axis
* Leo
* Carnage
* Danny
* Megara
* Shiv
* Velerys
* Adyta

## Trivia

* This storyline is directly tied to Throne of the New Gods, of which it can be seen as an alternate outcome.