RADIANT

Seth is a boy who lives in the remote village of Pompo Hills. He spends his days training to be a great sorcerer, but he's always messing up. After angering the villagers yet again by letting valuable livestock escape from a ranch, his guardian, Alma, gives him a harsh scolding. Then, one day, a Nemesis egg falls from the sky. Only sorcerers can defeat the Nemesis, so Seth makes up his mind t...

A group of four sorcerers, the Bravery Quartet, appears in the village and seals the Nemesis's movements. Seth has never met any other sorcerers besides Alma and is immediately taken with them. Hoping to prove that he can be of use too, Seth asks their leader, Don Bossman (Boss), if he can work with them. Impressed, Boss asks Seth to keep the Nemesis occupied while the quartet evacuates the v...

No matter how often Alma explains that sorcerers and ordinary humans don't understand each other, Seth just can't accept it. So, to stop people from seeing sorcerers as the bad guys, Seth swears to destroy all the Nemesis. To do this, he decides to go to Radiant, a land of legend where the Nemesis' nest is said to be. Exasperated by his recklessness, Alma warns him against it, but the two can...

Seth heads for Artemis Academy in search of clues as to where he can find Radiant. On the way, he runs into Captain Dragunov of the Inquisition, an organization that cracks down on sorcerers. Even though Seth did nothing wrong, he's thrown in a cage just for being a sorcerer. When all his attempts to escape fail, he meets a red-haired girl named Melie, who's also in a cage. Meanwhile Alma, wh...

Immediately after arriving in Artemis Academy, Seth decides to take part in the ceremony welcoming new residents to the city. However, the founder of the academy, Master Lord Majesty, ends up saddling him with a certain immense penalty. Seth then proceeds to search for Yaga, the powerful sorcerer Alma told him to meet, but he unwittingly lands in more and more trouble!

To be accepted as Yaga's pupil, Seth must prove his strength as a sorcerer. He asks Melie for help, but attack magic isn't her strong suit, so she tells him she can't help... but her worry for Seth causes her personality to take a drastic turn into "Crazy Melie." She teaches Seth the harsh and dangerous lesson that strength can't be gained unless you're prepared to die for it, but then things...

As Doc is enjoying another peaceful afternoon drinking coffee at Miss Melba's café, he's suddenly pulled underground through a manhole by a tentacled beast. This monster of the underground water system is know as the Devil Fish Kraken, and it just happens to love coffee, so it was attracted to Doc's coffee-saturated scent. Seth and Melie head underground to save him, but Seth's attacks have n...

Seth has rapidly gained more magical power, but he's gotten so used to it that his handling of magic is has grown sloppy. To teach him a lesson, Yaga forces Seth to wear gloves that prevent magic use and says that if he removes them, he'll be expelled. Meanwhile, the Bravery Quartet that Seth met in Pompo Hills is now up to no good in Artemis Academy. Seth tries to stop them, but without the ...

A new recruit in the Inquisition notices that Captain Dragunov's attitude seems quite careless, and he can't understand why his men have such faith in him. He joined the Inquisition hoping to fight dangerous sorcerers, not handle odd jobs. Dragunov then receives an urgent request for aid from Captain Edmund, whose ship was attacked by a Nemesis, and they rush to help. The rookie is instantly ...

It's been a month since Seth parted ways with Alma. A festival is about to be held in Artemis Academy, and Seth is excited by the joyous atmosphere. The festival appears to be one of Majesty's whims, but it's actually held to raise funds for the city's defense. Its highlight event is the broom race. When Nick, the favorite to win, makes fun of Alma, Seth decides to enter the race using the br...

Doc has received a request to handle a job involving a Nemesis. He rejects it at first, but Seth is determined to go after the Nemesis and accepts the job for him. Thus Seth, Melie, and Doc depart for Rumble Town, the city that roars like thunder. Sorcerers are treated very coldly in this town due to the harsh policies of Captain Konrad of the Inquisition. When Seth encounters the Nemesis, he...

Seth, Melie, and Doc visit the house in the slums where the one who sent the job request lives. The family requested an investigation because their eldest son, Taj, has been infected, but because they are immigrants, their pleas for help are ignored by the Inquisition. But just as Seth and company get to work, the bell in the clock tower rings out an order to evacuate. Due to its poorly plann...

Captain Konrad of the Inquisition convinces the people of Rumble Town that all the accidents there have been the fault of immigrants and sorcerers. Fueled by anger and fear, the town's residents lead an uprising, demanding the elimination of all infected people... all according to Konrad's plan. When the people begin to riot, they capture Taj and are about to execute him when Seth and Melie s...

Seth tries to rescue Doc, who's been taken hostage, and ends up captured himself. Konrad denounces him to the people as a criminal who colluded with the immigrants to do evil, and then kicks off a bombardment of cannon fire on the part of the town where the immigrants had settled. Seth is rescued with Grimm's help, but at the same time, the Nemesis appears and creates further chaos. They lear...

Fifteen years ago, a young Hameline, having been infected, was imprisoned in Rumble Town along with three other infected children. When Major Oxumare of the Inquisition stands up for the children, a young Konrad kills him and frames the children for his mutiny. Frightened, the people had the entire district where the prison was removed from the island to plunge into the abyss. This is the tru...

Konrad makes a formidable foe with his giant lance. After a grueling fight, Seth finally defeats Konrad, but the collapse of the town has already begun by Hameline's hand. When she attacks Seth, he is sent flying and loses consciousness. He awakes to find himself face-to-face with a man whose face closely resembles his own. The man calls himself Piodon and asks Seth what he's fighting for, wh...

At last, Seth faces Hameline. She asserts that the people of this town aren't worth saving as she unleashes fierce attacks on him. Seth has always used his magic to protect people, but after reflecting on his own past, he sympathizes with Hameline as he realizes that her circumstances and his are not so different. Sorcerers do indeed face persecution and segregation... but Seth promised Alma ...

Hameline is defeated by General Torque, "the Beast." The enraged Seth continues to fight, but Von Teppes of the Inquisition turns the tables on him. Seth finally loses consciousness, but then an immense hidden power he didn't know he had sends him on a rampage. He defeats Teppes and, still unconscious, goes after Torque. The battle grows even more intense as Colonel Santori jumps in to assist...

When Seth and company return to Artemis Academy, they are enthusiastically welcomed as the heroes who exposed the misdeeds of an Inquisitor. But when Seth thinks about Hameline, and about his own blind rampage during the battle, he can't find it in him to be pleased by the town's accolades. Even when Majesty says he's throwing a party for Seth, he can't shake his sadness. Then, while Seth is ...

With public trust in the Inquisition waning after their misdeeds were exposed in Rumble Town, there are no towns willing to provide Dragunov and his men with much-needed supplies. A rookie soldier laments how unfair it is that they're being treated as harshly as Konrad himself, when they actualyl fought against him to protect the people. Dragunov cautions him that just because one thinks they...

Just when Seth decides to set out on a new journey after hearing what Yaga wrote in a letter to Alma, a massive number of Nemesis eggs rains down on Artemis Academy. The sorcerers of the city intercept them, but an egg they miss falls on an isolated island where Melie happens to be gathering mushrooms. Seth rushes to save her and fights the Nemesis that hatches from the egg, but its immense s...