Prologue

One hundred years ago, mankind's eyes were opened to the world of evil. One of torture, monstrosities, and even death.

The world as we knew it changed forever.

Across the globe, portals known as Hell Rips stained the blue of the skies a vivid, bloody red.

From The Rips, a storm of monsters, seen only in nightmares or horror movies, were unleashed upon humanity. Helpless, hopeless, humanity.

Spirits, demons, and monsters high on the thrill of the hunt and their newfound freedom, gorged themselves. They feasted, slaughtered, and sated their lusts for months until more than three billion of the world's population had been decimated.

Humanity never stood a chance.

December 21, 2012. Back then, they called it the end of the Mayan Calendar, the day the world was supposed to end. Now, we refer to it as Ragnarok.

Now magic has always existed in this world, though hidden to the untrained eye. Just, ironically, as the demons had been.

In humanity's most desperate hour, mages, exorcists, witches, spiritualists, demon hunters, and even faeries emerged from their place in the shadows to fight the minions of hell. Through various and unique techniques passed down from generations, those who practiced the arts managed to turn the tide on the Rip forces. Just enough for the soldiers to build barricades against the evil beings. Inside those barricades, communities of survivors gathered, to survive, to rebuild.

However, despite the barricades, minor skirmishes continued to erupt. The Rip in the sky remained, so too, did its inhabitants. In order to give Earth and its people a fighting chance, the wielders of magic began training citizens with the ability and potential to wield it. No longer were magical beings hidden from the world, invisible to normal people. No longer were their arts forced to remain in the family.

One German clan in particular, the extensive Mullers, became the largest clan to train new pupils to fight against the fiends. They trained so many, the head of the family, Hans Muller, created an academy in order to teach his family's Summoning technique. The Summoning allows humans, who possess high spiritual powers, to summon a holy weapon to fight against evil.

This is the story of Muller Monster Hunter's Academy's greatest seven students, who would change everything.