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In a world known as Somnium, there are 5 great cities known as Haruo, Natsuro, Akiro, Fuyuro, and Shizon. These cities once waged a great war long ago, and during this war, a huge, ominous tower emerged, from which a dark creature emerged, and razed many villages. 1 man from each city settled their differences, and teamed up to kill this creature at the cost of their lives. In sorrow over the lost of these heroes, the leaders from each city stopped fighting. For centuries, the cities lived in peace.... However, this era of peace slowly fades away as conflicts between the cities, particular Shizon and Haruo, progressively escalate. Eventually, Shizon City decides to send an army to Haruo City, much to their astonishment. They request help from Natsuro City, thus beginning Ryuu's journey...
Ryuu and his friends must deal with the political and warfare issues between the cities, but with the seeds of war sown, they also must conflict with several enemies who are intent on sprouting these seeds

The world is called Somnium, and it has multiple continents, which most of them are centered around one of the 5 great cities, who control their own territory of other towns and villages, forming nations which share the city names. Some cities have a very prominent social hierarchy, while others not so much. Every city does have a 'royal family', whose role is almost always serving as leaders of their respective cities.
In every part of the world, monsters are abound, who every now and then, invade small villages. Usually, the monsters are easily defeated by the average mercenary, but for some unknown reason, recently, monsters have become far more powerful than usual and are growing in numbers and have been getting increasingly more daring, even attacking the 5 great cities.
Additionally, in Somnium, there is a legend of 5 legendary swords called the "Demon Swords", which are very malevolent weapons that each have its own very unusual power:

- reduces its victims abilities
- causes its victims to see illusions
- twists and turns and can split into multiple blades
- carves patterns into whatever it makes contact with
- creates darkness and cuts through anything

Other than general descriptions, these swords are mostly shrouded in mystery.

Ryuu

Gender: Male
Age: 17

Ryuu comes from the royal family of Natsuro City, but Ryuu simply brushes off this title as just a flashy name and he prefers that people refer to him casually. Although usually seen as a bit arrogant in terms of combat and cynical, he does deeply care for his friends and has a strong sense of justice. Has a bad habit of rushing into action when people are endangered. Ryuu has a younger brother named Tsura, who is a bit of a flirt (and tends to use words like "trolling", much to Ryuu's annoyance). Ryuu's father made it a point to ensure Ryuu has fighting skills before he was allowed to leave home on his own, but he was not taught very well in regards to history or geography. Ryuu is sent by his father along with his 2 friends, Sho and Akina to help defend Haruo City from its invaders.
Ryuu specializes in using swords and fire and water magic.Note about Tsura: He has a yellow eye and a green eye (heterochromia) in the demo, but I decided to change it to just green eyes, due to ultimately deciding that the yellow eye was too strange-looking.

Akina

Gender: Female
Age: 18

Ryuu's level-headed friend. She is generally kind and caring to all, but she does have an aggressive side when angered. She tends to scold Ryuu for his bad attitude. Akina lives in Natsuro City to live with her uncle, a fairly wealthy businessman, as her parents died many years ago, and Akina's grandfather traverses the world to record the various monsters plaguing the world. She is very knowledgeable of various worldly circumstances, and is often exasperated by Ryuu's cluelessness in such matters.
Akina specializes in using bows, but she also has some skill in healing spells. She has all around stats, and many of her skills are cheap and learned fairly quickly in comparison to other characters.


Sho

Gender: Male
Age: 17

A very shy and easily frightened friend of Ryuu's. Even though Sho at heart wishes to help his friends, his fearful nature often hides that. Sho's mother runs the inn in Natsuro City, as his father is no longer alive. Despite his weaknesses, Sho eventually agrees to partake in the journey. Sho seems to harbor secret feelings for Akina, although he is unsuccessful in hiding it from Ryuu. Sho and Akina had been good friends for a very long time, well before they met Ryuu.
Sho specializes in using healing magic and later, light magic. Great power in magic, low defenses.... your basic white mage

 

A forest maze shrouded in thick fog. Getting lost here can be deadly
 
 

A house... probably better described as a mansion
 
 

A look at the main character's home, Natsuro City
 
 

A damp forest... the perfect place for a crap ton of mushrooms
 
 

A look into one of the early dungeons of the game
 
 

A mountainous trail with a cave to explore
 
 

Suspicious stuff...
 
 

Autumn themed places have always been my favorite in games



A look into the battle system. Black battleground is due to taking this screenshot in the battle test


Crazy monster thing
 

The following maps depicted are not available in the demo!


Blue flames are never a good sign
 
 

 



A fog-covered town of uniform design

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