A century before the events of MapleStory, the hero Kaiser was the protector of Grandis and its capital city of Helisium, defending it from the threat of Magnus the Betrayer. However, despite his amazing prowess in combat, he fell to an ambush planned by Magnus with the help of Gerald Darmoor, Grandis's Transcendence of Life, and the Black Mage, Maple World's Transcendence of Light in an attempt to merge both dimensions. In the present day, a young boy named Kyle is playing with his friends Tear and Velderoth. They intervene when Magnus' followers attempt to steal an important relic that maintained the shield around their hometown of Pantheon, the last bastion for the Nova after Helisium's fall. However, while Velderoth ran back to town to get help, Kyle and Tear attempted to fight them of