Midgar Kingdom

Midgar Kingdom (ミドガル王国) is the kingdom where the Midgar royal family resides and the Fenrir Sect faction territory. It is also the home of Cid Kagenō, otherwise known as Shadow.

History
Midgar is a powerful country, home to some of the most powerful people in the world, such as Princess Iris Midgar. Midgar's royal capital also boasts being the home of the Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy, one of the most prestigious magic swordsman academies on the continent.

The Midgar Kingdom are using Royal Bushin method, which is a relatively new fighting style and a deviation from traditional Bushin. Traditional Bushin method was originally already the most popular style in Midgar, so there was some resistance at first between the traditional supporters and the trailblazers. But thanks to Princess Iris, it’s now being recognized as the second most popular style in this country, behind only the traditional Bushin method.

Zenon Griffey is the swordsmen who’s spread the influence of Royal Bushin method throughout the country.

Background
The kingdom was first founded by the Midgar royal family which currently ruled by King Klaus Midgar and sired his both daughter, Iris and Alexia. At some point during his reign, Klaus notice the Cult of Diablos existence and decided to fought their influence secretly as he understood the organization's history and their power which had been influential throughout the world.

The First Princess, Iris Midgar has shown tremendous power for her natural talent. After graduate of the Midgar Academy, Iris is officially recognized as the strongest warrior of the kingdom and being regarded as one of the most accomplished Spellswords of the history, as well as acclaimed a strong reputation among the Dark Knights within the Midgar Kingdom Knight Order, when Iris gained fame and popularity among the Midgar citizens for her strength.

Due to Iris' contributions at a time when there was some debate in using relatively new methods and deviating from traditional Bushin, she was able to popularize the teachings of fighting styles, namely Royal Bushin method and Zenon Griffey as a prodigy whose reputation was so well-known that he had spread these teachings throughout the country and even became a Swordsmanship Instructor at Midgar Academy.

Six or Seven years ago, Midgar Kingdom had established an alliance with the Oriana Kingdom to protect their nation in any external conflict, even allowing Princess Rose Oriana to attended their academy.

Princess Alexia's Kidnapping
Learning the news about Alexia Midgar's disappearance because she didn't return to her dormitory last night, Iris Midgar desperately ordered the knights to find her and begin to conducting an investigation. Knowing that Cid Kagenō was the last person seen with her, he become the first suspect as a potential kidnapping. Zenon Griffey and several of his followers arrest Cid while he is at school and beat him in his interrogation but the young man does not give up anything, despite his injuries. Zenon meets with Princess Iris and states he feels responsible for Alexia's kidnapping and gives a report about Cid's interrogation for five days, Iris then decides to release him but keeps following him.

Two days later late at night, the capital was shaken when it heard reports about the situation of several ambushes that occurred in the capital simultaneously at various locations until it was confirmed that there were 8 demolition sites carried out in groups until several buildings were destroyed. Knowing the situation was getting more complicated, the Knight Order mobilized in a state of emergency to begin evacuating high-profile leaders and citizens. Iris ordered the security team to focus on the Academy as she and her men headed to the scene to stop the chaos.

While carrying out the evacuation process, there was a gigantic monster that had been wreaking havoc as the knight prepare to face it, but their attacks are ineffective as the creature just regenerated until Iris comes and inflicts a more serious wound on the monster. But, despite easily slashing it many times over, the creature keep regenerated until she decides to get more serious and cuts its arm. However, after seeing the monster easily regenerates it, Iris decides to cut it to small pieces so that it won't be able to regenerate.

Before Iris could resume her attack to inflicting several wounds on the creature, a mysterious figure stopped her and states she is just making her suffer as she knows the monster pain and suffering and she will put an end to it. Iris demand to know who is she, which she replied as Alpha. Alpha then ended the monster's rampage by giving an attacks on the monster, curing it and returning it to her original human form, a young girl. Alpha then tells Iris that she should stay behind and enjoy the show while they face this situation, as well as saying not to get in Shadow Garden's way.

At the same time, Alexia Midgar, who escaped from being held in a hidden facility by taking advantage of the chaos had met Zenon Griffey, who reveals that it was he who kidnapped Alexia in order to take her royal blood being used in an experiment for his achievement to become the 12th Seat Knight of Rounds. Hearing this revelation, Alexia angrily attacked him but she lost due to the difference in strength and will be taken by Zenon.

Before Zenon took Alexia, suddenly there was a mysterious person who called himself Shadow and intended to interfered his way. Alexia saw the two of them fight and she was surprised that Zenon, who is a talented knight whose name is already known in the kingdom could being overwhelmed by Shadow, who she admired with his abilities, especially in his swordsmanship.

Alexia also think and feels concerned about Zenon and Shadow's motives, which might have intentions and there is an organization that has been in the shadows. Then Alexia saw Zenon take out a red pill and consume it until Alexia saw a change in Zenon body, both physically and strength. Even though his power has increased, Zenon is still defeated by Shadow who giving him a fist fight and then he starts using very large magic and intends to end it using the "I am Atomic" attack.

At that moment, there was a huge explosion that occur and leaving a large crater in the middle of the city. Iris witnesses it and heads to the source, where at the location, she is happily delighted to finally find Alexia unharmed in the middle of the crater.

The next morning, the incident has been resolved on the surface with Zenon Griffey who is a respected man in Midgar Kingdom becoming the suspect of this incident and the mastermind of Alexia's kidnapping, which soured his reputation and tarnished the Royal Bushin method.

The Knight Order began to investigate the destroyed facility and find most classified documents and objects to be confiscated in the warehouse, until an unknown person tries to destroy any items inside the warehouse by burning them until nothing is left, with only an artifact being saved. Knowing this, Iris is preparing to dispatch a special brigade in order to combat forces that would disrupt the Midgar Kingdom and she held a private meeting with Glen and Marco Granger, who asked them to join the Crimson Order upon learning the existence of secret organizations such as the Cult of Diablos and Shadow Garden.

Iris decided to form this new order with them, because she couldn't trust the Knight Order after discovering that Zenon was a member of the Cult and a warehouse arson incident that destroyed all the evidence, storing classified documents and objects from Cult of Diablos which have been confiscated. They both agreed to help the princess investigate the organization, becoming the first members of the Crimson Order. Being unable to determine if Shadow Garden were friend or foe, the Crimson Order also pursued them with all their might as they also pursued the Cult of Diablos.

Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack
The Knight Order tried to investigating a series of serial murders targeting citizens by individuals publicly believed to be Shadow Garden and delivering "justice".

Both Princess Iris Midgar and Alexia Midgar along with her two personal subordinate, Glen and Marco Granger went to the Midgar Academy to meet Sherry Barnett and showing an artifact they found in the Cult's hideout, which they can't decipher it and asks for Sherry, who is the most brilliant mind in the kingdom, if she can decipher it.

The Academy Assistant Principal Lutheran Barnett encourages Sherry to do the job by stating its a rare opportunity, which she accepts and Iris decides to assign the Crimson Order to keep watch on them stating that the Cult of Diablos will be after the artifact. Lutheran hears that's the new knight order that Iris formed and she confirms that it's a small order, but it made by people she trusts and he went to question her about Iris distrust about the Knight Order, which she gave silent answer. Lutheran allowed it under the condition that he takes only two guards to secure Sherry in her lab, so Princess Iris chose her most trusted men: Glen and Marco Granger.

Having become curious about Shadow Garden and the Cult of Diablos, Alexia decides to take a more active role in the internal affairs of her kingdom by joining Iris's investigations to which also wishes to help her for investigate Shadow and she accepts. During a night patrol, Alexia encountered three imposters who are disguising themselves as part of Shadow Garden. They had a brief fight until Shadow saves her. Alexia warns Shadow to not become an enemy of her kingdom, which is met with cold indifference.

After Alexia escape from her attacker due to Shadow saved her, she tells Iris that the killer was impersonating Shadow Garden. Alexia adds that Shadow is fighting the Cult, and Iris hopes that they will learn something more when the artifact gets deciphered. Alexia then asks her who she thinks is the real enemy, Shadow Garden or the Cult of Diablos. Iris states its both and that she won't allow anyone to wreck havoc in the Kingdom, even Alexia try to warn her about Shadow's strength.

When Alexia dropped off at the Academy to resume her studies, but sees the gate is closed and the school guard is already dead and alerted Iris about the terrorist attack taking the school hostage.

As the Knight Order were kept at bay when they tried to enter the Academy due to their magic have been sealed because the magic blocking field that surrounded the Academy and snipers at the vantage points, Iris attempted to intercede and meet with her Crimson Order subordinates inside. However, she was rebuffed by the senior authorities attempting to keep the situation stable for the time being, with one of the knights exclaiming that Iris would be of no use without her magic if she entered. Offended by the thought, Iris still had to respect the chain of command and withheld her frustration, waiting until the magic-sealing bubble lifted and the knights could swarm in.

After the magic blocking field that surrounded the Academy has been disabled by the artifact control unit that Sherry Barnett thrown at the auditorium hall, the Knight Order decide to enter the Academy to save the students from being hostages until in that moment the academy went burst into flames. Once on academy grounds, Iris met with Princess Rose Oriana to learn that there were two groups calling themselves Shadow Garden, with one responsible for the attack and the other for freeing the students.

After the incident, Shadow and his organization Shadow Garden thus deemed them responsible for their crimes of the attack on the academy and all over the kingdom, even the Midgar Kingdom's government labelled them as an enemy to the kingdom, listing their crimes and wanted for mass murder, kidnapping, arson, and robbery and seeking to apprehend them by already trying to hunting them down.

With the failure of the Crimson Order's first mission, Princess Iris lost the majority support from the Knight Order with Glen's unexpected demise shortly after joining. Iris notes to herself that her Crimson Order has lost their strongest members and probably won't be able to rebuild them as it is unlikely that they can be replaced.

Sanctuary Infiltration
As the events of the "Goddess's Trial" in Lindwurm were about to begin, Alexia Midgar visits Mitsugoshi Company's store along with Iris Midgar to made preparations for her departure trip as her father, king Klaus Midgar intended to send her to attend the event as a VIP guest and also investigate the dark rumors of the archbishop Drake regarding the corruption and missing orphans, as well as the relation with the Divine Teachings of the Holy Church alongside the Crimson Order.

Hearing the news of the archbishop death, Alexia goes to the church and having an audit with acting archbishop Jack Nelson, explaining that she was there to investigate the previous archbishop's death, to which he replied that the Church will be handling the investigation and she will need to be reapproved to conduct an investigation on the issue as Nelson already send the letter to the king Klaus Midgar and also telling her to enjoy the "Goddess's Trial" event.

The "Goddess's Trial" event was doing well until the last challenger is a student from Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy, Cid Kagenō was called out. When the student was called out Shadow appeared out of nowhere much to the audience's surprise. Nelson ordered his men to gather the Church’s Paladin to surround Shadow, before he was shocked that he didn't activate any summons and saw the figure of ancient warrior known as Aurora, the Witch of Calamity. Shadow and Aurora only faced each other until they started clashing blades, as Shadow decide to end the match by closed in the distance and managed to defeat her with ease.

Upon Shadow's victory, Nelson in shock and irk tried to order his men to capture him when the barrier breaks and a magic door suddenly appears in the middle of the arena. He became startled and wondered if the magic door responded to Shadow and that he was worthy enough to pass through the Sanctuary. As the door starts opening, he gives orders to evacuate the citizens and canceled the trial. Nelson then tries to order Alexia and the rest leave however, Shadow Garden member led by Alpha appeared and asked the princesses to not do anything until the door is closed and then enters the door. Epsilon had taken down the Archbishop's guards and stated he will be coming with them inside the gate, but Nelson refused and calls his guard Venom to kill her. This attempt in resisting failed as Venom was cut down with her asking the witnesses if they saw anything to which they responded that they did not see anything before apprehending the Archbishop.

Alexia and Rose Oriana went to entering the gateway alongside members of Alpha's squad with the captured Nelson and the "hostage" Natsume Kafka to find themselves in the Sanctuary. Inside the Sanctuary, Alexia would then come to have learned about the truth of the Three Heroes, Demon Possession, as well as the Cult of Diablos's origins and true objective until Alpha revealing Nelson's true affiliation as the 11th Seat of the "Knights of Rounds", to which he confirms it by revealing himself as Nelson the Avaricious and tends to separating them into groups.

Alexia saw the fight between Alpha and Delta against Nelson and his deluge of copies in the Sanctuary defense system as she was stunned to see Delta brutality by fighting like a berserker with no technique. When the defense system breaks as Nelson is surprised that over hundred of his copies have been defeated without even breaking a sweat. Alpha states that even if he was able to create a hundred copies, they all still have one brain and he couldn't control them all that well. Nelson then sees a statue of Olivier and calls for Olivier to come. Olivier comes out, but at the same time Epsilon's team joins Alpha and states they are done with the investigation and can leave. Nelson is surprised that they are running away, but Alpha explains their objective is to cut off the source of power and now know how the Sanctuary defenses work, so they will be returning again.

Alexia then decide to escape from the Sanctuary along with Rose and Natsume until outside, the three saw Shadow's magic annihilate the Sanctuary and flood Lindwurm. Concluding they were ignorant to the true battle even have learned the connection with the recent events with the two organizations, Alexia alongside Rose and Natsume made an alliance in hopes of protecting anything they dear most, which they swore friendship and a sharing of resources to learn what they could.

The news of the Sanctuary being obliterated had spread far and wide, causing the Midgar Kingdom's government to place more notoriety upon Shadow Garden. Hearing the news, Princess Iris appoarch King Klaus Midgar, as she wanted to use the kingdom's authority to investigate the Holy Church. Even after hearing reports of suspicions of collusion between the the Holy Church and the Cult of Diablos, Klaus did not try to deal with it on the pretext that it was not a certainty with the facts at present and had no crucial evidence to justify a long term investigation.

Furthermore with the approaching of Bushin Festival event along with many honored guests from abroad to whom he must presently play host, Klaus think that this is certainly not a time where he can afford to present himself being antagonistic toward the Church for causing any undue turmoil. Also, Klaus wants to avoid upsetting his allies in Oriana Kingdom and receiving a visit from their king, Raphael Oriana. Iris is determined to get results and prove that she has power to stand up against the Divine Teachings, which Klaus often finds it tiresome to remind Iris of his words and also holds high expectations of her.

After that, Iris want to hear every detail from Alexia who went to Lindwurm to attend as a guest in the Goddess's Trial event. After hearing every detail from her sister report about Alexia wants to investigate the Divine Teachings because there must be a big organization that are be able to keep the Sanctuary a secret from the public, Iris also had suggested the same thing to their father, Klaus Midgar to use the kingdom's authority to investigate the Holy Church. But, the King told both princess to not do anything. However, Iris feels that if she wins the Bushin Festival again, she will have more backing and support of the people, and their father will have to listen to her.

Bushin Festival Tournament
There has been a great deal of criticism on the Royal Bushin method because of its questionable credibility, particularly from the propagators of the method, Zenon Griffey whose reputation has now been tarnished by his actions and as a result, his scandals have disgrace the Royal Bushin method.

Fearing for the kingdom's future, Iris Midgar plans to enter the tournament to participated and became a recurring champion in winning the Bushin Festival, in order to regain the good name of the kingdom's fighting technique that she had been trying so hard to contribute and restore public faith in her kingdom's knights order and the royal family, hoping that her victory would assuring her kingdom's confidence, in both her strength and their security as the public would raising support upon her victory.

Even their ally, the Oriana Kingdom would be participating in this festival as the Academy had selected Student Council President Rose Oriana who was the winner of the academy tournament as the representative, as well as being the first to participate to represent the Oriana Kingdom. In particular, King Raphael Oriana had come to the capital of Midgar to convey to Rose about her engagement.

However, there was an incident regarding Princess Oriana attacking her own fiancé, the Royal Chancellor, Duke Perv Asshat whose actions have become an international issue for both kingdoms and due to an unexpected event, Rose's position as the Academy's representative has been replaced by Claire Kagenō in her stead. Midgar intends to arrest Rose for her actions under the jurisdiction of Midgar's laws. But Oriana has persuaded the Midgar government not to get involved in interfering with Rose's affairs and personally want to take handle on the matters themselves for reason as a "family matter".

Later, Princess Iris have a meeting with Duke Perv and King Raphael to discuss the security plan for the Bushin Festival, but Perv doesn't feel it needs more security. When Iris states that his condition looks good because the report about him being attacked is different from the report she received, Perv agrees as he says that the news story was a little exaggerated and guesses that Midgar worries that easily because of Alexia's kidnapping. Perv then heard that Iris personally went looking for her and he intends to follow the same and have Oriana solve their family problems themselves. Perv then adds that every business will be taken care of by himself for the negotiation, rebuilding princess order and appearing in the Bushin Festival. Even Perv sympathizes with Princess Iris' worry and he eases her concern that Oriana Kingdom will not do anything that troubles her.

Meanwhile, Alexia Midgar was trying to investigating the incident with help from Natsume Kafka when she giving her access to an information that even she couldn't get her hands on it. They both learned that the incident that Rose triggered had confirmed their guess as they suspected that her fiancé possibly had a connection with the Cult of Diablos and they try want to confirm it with Rose, in order to knowing her side on the story.

During the quarterfinals round, Iris is in the VIP seat when she meets Cid Kagenō and she wants him to sit here because she was the one who gave Claire the ticket for him and apologizes for what happened to him due to Zenon's actions. Iris asked about Cid's friendship with her sister Alexia and then discussed about the battle between Annerose Nichtsehen and Jimina Sennen in terms of their fighting capabilities, even Iris heard that there was news about the first champion of the Bushin Festival, Beatrix who was nicknamed the Goddess of War was in the capital after haven't showed her face in public for over a decade before Iris sees Cid leave his seat to go to the toilet.

As the match is about to start soon, Iris meets Perv who suddenly sits on Cid's chair with suspicious feeling towards him, then discusses and asks about Rose's predicament but Perv calmly expresses confidence that he will come back to her once she calms down. She explains that her king will be attending the festival tomorrow on the grounds of not feeling well and apologizes that the security has been in vain, Iris explains that her father, king Klaus Midgar will also be watching from tomorrow.

Perv then sees Annerose coming out in the arena. He heard that she is in the middle of a training pilgrimage, and would love to invite her to work for his kingdom. Iris also states that a warrior of her caliber would be in use for her kingdom as well. Perv asks her what she thinks of Annerose opponent, Jimina Sennen. Iris states she sees him for the first time, but he doesn't look very strong. However, she isn't sure of Annerose's win as Mundane is a little unnerving and there is no uncertainty in his eyes, which isn't typical for a weak fighter as she had a feeling that Mundane will possibly win the match. When the match is started, Iris and Perv watch their fight to see the match outcome.

The victory of the match was won by Jimina and Perv complimented Iris's observation that even she herself was surprised that someone as strong as him was unnoticed for that long. Perv states the tomorrow's next round would be Iris versus Jimina and wonders if she is confident that she can beat him. Iris states she can't match his beauty of swordplay, but she believes that if Jimina's abilities were only like that, then she would be no match for him. However there's a good chance that he's hiding something, which is why he's been disguising his stance and techniques throughout the tournament. Iris then leaves Perv to take his fight and he wins it. After that, Iris saw Beatrix who was watching and then left and Iris chased after Beatrix to be able to invite her to watch tomorrow's semifinal match.

Later on in the main tournament, Beatrix made an unexpected visit and surprised spectators who knew her. Initially here to look for someone who resembles her, the Goddess suspected Cid and Ketsu under different circumstances. Convinced otherwise, the Goddesses decided to also spectate when Iris talked about the dark horse of the tournament.

When the bout between Iris and Jimina occurred, many have believed that the princess would easily win. However, they would be shocked and surprised when the dark horse easily pulled an upset against her. Upon his victory, Rose suddenly appeared and killed her father whilst unaware that he was controlled by the Chancellor at the time. Due to the sudden nature of the incident, Jimina was forced into revealing himself as Shadow and help the fugitive princess escape. Seeing the leader of Shadow Garden, Iris became enraged and confronted the leader while Beatrix incited, decided to help the princess in her confrontation against Shadow.

Novel/Manga
Initially evenly matched, Beatrix was overwhelmed when the leader of Shadow Garden started to exert his effort against the two. Iris was easily beaten when she fought the leader. The two were limited on options with the princess suggesting that she'll sacrifice herself in stopping him while the Goddess cut him down.

This backfired as not even an obstruction could stop the leader as he ultimately defeated them. The wounded Iris asked why he didn't kill them with him responding that he only kills his enemies, departing while reminding her that she shouldn't lose sight of her true enemies. Immediately afterwards, Shadow disappears in a halo of light, leaving a clear sky in his wake. Iris initially confused his response was utterly defeated and humiliated by the leader would develop a deep hatred towards him as she concluded that he is an enemy to not only her kingdom but to the whole world.

Anime
The battle was long and hard fought by the two until they reached the clocktower. Equipping herself with a artifact, Shadow snickered at the Princess whilst she tried to retort his remark when Beatrix was overwhelmed by the slightest effort exerted by Shadow. Shadow continued to sandbag when he stumbled upon a pair of crowbars. This was until they were cut off and the combatants reached the clocktower with Annerose cameoing. Limited with options, Iris proposed to sacrifice herself to immobilize the leader with the Goddess using it to cut him down. The plan would backfire as Shadow kneed the princess before doing a knee backstabber on the Goddess before she got her chance. Sill enraged, Iris declared that Shadow is an enemy to the world and has nowhere to run to which he retorted a psychotic laughter and asked whose running. Despaired, the two was ready to accept defeat when the leader performed his Atomic attack. However, this was for naught when his attack was canceled and that he disappeared. Facing the reality of the situation, Iris broke down into tears and later developed a deep hatred towards the leader all the while against the advice from the Goddess herself.

Military

 * Crimson Order, which led by Iris Midgar.

Locations

 * Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy and Midgar Academy of Science
 * Holy Land, Lindwurm
 * Alexandria (Former Capital)

Inhabitants

 * Klaus Midgar (Current King)
 * Iris Midgar (First Princess)
 * Alexia Midgar (Second Princess)