Kunpaetku then looked at Maxi madly, noticing that he had Soul Edge inside his body. As he drew his weapon, the object in Kunpaetk's hand, a fragment of Soul Edge, began to glow with a faint red light. It was then that Maxi realized that Kunpaetku created him.Ī strange urge to kill Kunpaetku began rising within Maxi. Kunpaetku cursed Astaroth, calling him a failure. Kunpaetku mostly ignored Maxi until he asked him about Astaroth. This man was Kunpaetku-Astaroth's creator, who had managed to escape the shrine's destruction at the last minute. While inspecting the ruins, he found a man in tattered clothing there, clutching something and muttering incoherently. Maxi's search for Astaroth led him to the ruins of the shrine where the golem had been created. He did not realize, however, that all memory of his traveling companions had been lost as a result of the ritual. Maxi went to see the village medicine man, who performed a secret ritual using a strange metal fragment, which was actually a fragment of Soul Edge, and several days later, Maxi left the village, promising to return some day. He wanted to chase after him, but his body was too weak. Maxi had a horrible feeling that the creature was Astaroth. Due to the severity of his wounds, Maxi's traveling days were over.įour peaceful years passed, until a rumor of a horrendous creature wielding a large bearded axe reached the village. When Maxi woke up, he was on a riverbed near an unfamiliar village, where an old man rescued him. He succeeded in killing Astaroth, but the god of war Ares, in bitter rage, commanded the ground to open up and swallow Maxi. As Kilik and Xianghua ran past Astaroth, Maxi stayed behind to fight him to the death. After defeating the creatures, Astaroth presented himself and blocked the entrance to the castle. With Kilik and Xianghua's help, Maxi stormed Ostrheinsburg Castle, where the creatures that had killed Maxi's crew were waiting for them. Eventually, the two met Xianghua, a member of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Guard, who also aided them in their travels. With his dying words, Kyam told Maxi of Kilik's quest and, having lost everything, Maxi decided to travel with him, swearing an oath of revenge against Astaroth. Maxi was able to suppress Kilik and return the Dvapara-Yuga to him, but only after Maxi's sworn brother, Kyam, had been murdered and most of the other members of the crew were dead or missing. Eventually, they had repelled the golems, but not before Astaroth had temporarily snatched the holy mirror Dvapara-Yuga from Kilik, causing him to lose his sanity and savagely attack Maxi. With Kilik, both joined forces in the battle against the monsters. Kyam sympathized with Kilik and let him stay until Maxi, the captain, would return.īut when Maxi returned, he found his ship under attack by a hoard of golems and lizard-like creatures led by Astaroth. He argued with a pirate of the ship, who wanted Dvapara-Yuga as fee for the trip, until Kyam stepped in. They docked on an Indian Port town and, while Maxi was out, Kilik approached the ship searching a way to go west. He embarked with the crew, his "new family", and Kyam and sailed towards the west. Li Long left after reaching the port, but Maxi kept studying his work.Īfter his father's death, Maxi took his vessel and decided to turn into a freelance pirate, to see the world his father couldn't because of his ties to the country.
The man agreed and as time passed Maxi studied his style, and despite being different from his, he was able to further improve his abilities.
Recognizing the world was wider than he thought, he asked the man to be his teacher for the remainder of the travel.
Not hearing Kyam (his sworn brother)'s pleas, Maxi faced the man and was defeated. He, full of pride, challenged the stranger to a fight.
The man carried a bladed nunchaku, which Maxi noticed. He also learned to use the nunchaku as a way to defend himself, eventually turning into a strong youth.ĭuring one of his father's travels, he met a man from Ming known as Zhang Wu. Maxi spent most of his first years traveling from harbor to harbor with his father. Maxi's father was a confident merchant of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, but he wasn't allowed to commerce to the foreign countries, forced to commerce with his country only. Maxi was a wandering pirate from Shuri in the Ryūkyū Kingdom (present-day Okinawa).