500 years after the defeat of Exdeath, the Merged World was at peace and the four who helped to defeat him faded away into legend after their passing. On the day that they passed, they left behind a legacy that gave way to new generations of heroes. Everything was at peace with these heroes having taken up the mantle of those who came before them and this continued for centuries.

However, something else was happening behind the scenes. A necromancer with the ambition to conquer the world soon found an ancient tome that had a spell to resurrect the dead as they had been in life in the library of the old castle they had been living in. Smiling evilly, they took the book and then went into a room that had been prepared for the purpose of resurrecting the dead. They then began to recite the spell that was in the book and watched as someone appeared in the middle of the room after several minutes had passed. “It worked…” They said as they approached the person in the middle of the room who turned out to be none other than Bartz who seemed to be rather confused about where he ended up. When he was asked by the necromancer who brought him back to assist them with conquering the world, he refused and by doing so, was brought up to a tower and locked away in there.

After a while of being locked up, Bartz attempted to escape on his own. He snuck out of the tower at night when nobody was looking and then wandered around for a bit. Eventually, he was recaptured and then brought back to the tower.