Horn of Ilmaris

Horn of Ilmaris is a Raid Event scheduled to start on April 1, 2019 at 8:00 PM (PST/PDT) and end on April 7, 2019 at 8:00 PM (PST/PDT). It is the seventy third episode of the Dark Stigma story and thirty seventh in the Malice Canon storyline.

Half-time Reward Calculation Period is at April 3, 2019 from 8:00 PM to 8:59 PM (PST/PDT).

Feature Changes

 * Gold Shards instead of tickets as High Individual Ranking Reward

Raid Bosses Skill Cards

 * Darkstorm Charger Svatt (LR) Anti-Raid Boss Skill Card, obtained from the Oath of Survival Card Pack
 * Fortunate Valentino (LR) Anti-Hidden Raid Boss Skill Card, obtained from the Oath of Survival Card Pack
 * Life-Wagering Urszula (LR) Anti-Secret Raid Boss Skill Card, obtained from the Oath of Survival Card Pack
 * Chronicler Omniad (LR) Special Evolution Card, Skill works against all Raid Bosses of the event, obtained from the Master of Fate Card Pack. All stages of the card are bound until the event rewards are distributed.

Prologue
The dry grass undulated silently in the gentle wind as tension gripped the entire highland region. You and your party kept low to the ground, hiding in the tall scrub. Save for the scattered ruins, there was nowhere else to hide from the ranks of Lightholders and scores of monsters that surrounded you. The only sound you heard was the ceaseless drone of a hunting horn, its low register jostling your core.

Besides your immediate survival, you were desperate to escape for a more important reason: the book you were holding close to your breast was the Endless Tome. It was said to appear once every hundred years on a random bookshelf somewhere in the world. It contained all text ever written and would reveal whatever the reader wished to know on its pages. It could be the contents of a forbidden grimoire, a legendary magician's journal, or any written record as if they owned the original. However, they would find nothing but white emptiness until they shared with the Tome information not yet held within it.

By complete chance, you had found it in the shelf of an old inn. It radiated a distinct magical aura, but the blank pages puzzled you, so you took it to a store that dealt in magic books where the owner identified it instantly. You had paid a hefty price for her silence, but either she betrayed you or the Lightholders tortured the information out of her as you noticed it became harder to evade their pursuit over the next few days. Other unfamiliar but obvious enemies, keen to steal the book for themselves, also joined the hunt.

If the empire managed to take hold of it, that would likely hasten Emperor Ildanev's plans to reopen the gate into Neotellus so he could conquer it. Determined not to let that happen, you rashly cut across a highland plain to reach a dense forest in which you could hide the Tome. However, the enemies proved too numerous to evade. Among them were the plain's inhabitants, half-beast half-human creatures known as demikin. The hunting horn's drone belonged to their queen, a centaur called Ilmaris. It had the power to create a magical aurora from which phantasmal monsters would appear. If there was any hope of a stealthy escape before, it had long since vanished.

You realized there was no use in delaying the inevitable. For the sake of your friends in both worlds, the only choice you had was to fight your way through.