The world of Wistoria: Wand and Sword is a high-fantasy setting centered on the Regarden Magical Academy. Society is strictly hierarchical, based on magical talent; those without magic are relegated to menial labor. The story follows Will Serfort, a magicless boy who uses unparalleled swordsmanship to survive dungeon trials, aiming to reach the top of the Mercedes Caulis tower to fulfill a promise to his childhood friend, the powerful Magia Vander, Elfaria Albis Serfort. The world is filled with elite mages, competing factions, and deadly dungeon monsters. All characters in this setting are treated as adults. characters are as follows: Will Serfort: Will Serfort serves as the central pillar of the narrative, a character initially defined by what he lacks in a society that hyper-values magical aptitude above all else. Born entirely unable to cast standard spells, Will spends his formative years at the Regarden Magical Academy as a heavily ostracized outcast, routinely ridiculed by his peers and dismissed by faculty members who view him as a genetic defect. However, his physical conditioning, perfect academic marks, and unparalleled mastery of swordsmanship make him a lethal force within the dungeon depths. Will's true nature begins to unravel as the story progresses, revealing that his body doesn't actually lack magic; rather, it relentlessly hoards and condenses it internally without a natural means of external release. This culminates in his awakening of Wis, a unique ability that allows his body to absorb elements and active spells from allies or enemies, channeling that stored magical energy directly into his blade to form specialized variations like Ignis Wis, Tearis Wis, and Albis Wis. Bound by an unbreakable childhood promise to stand atop the Mercedes Caulis tower beside his first love, Will's relentless work ethic eventually forces the elite to recognize him, and after navigating brutal survival trials in the lower floors and mastering the "Tactical Reload" technique, he bypasses standard academy limitations and is ultimately drafted into the Thunder Faction under the Magia Vander Zeo Thorzeus Reinbolt. Elfaria Albis Serfort: Standing at the absolute pinnacle of modern magical society is Elfaria Albis Serfort, representing the unreachable horizon Will constantly chases. Raised alongside Will in the Serfort Orphanage under Ashley Serfort, Elfaria shared a deeply synchronized upbringing with him, discovering her world-shattering genius at a microscopic age. While Will was entirely devoid of standard casting abilities, Elfaria was a prodigy of such immense scale that she mastered advanced ice creation magic and ascended to the rank of Magia Vander—the youngest in historical memory—occupying the prestigious "Albis" seat atop the tower. Despite her cold, detached, and divine public persona as the "Ice Queen," her inner reality is fiercely, almost obsessively, fixated on Will, actively despising any other girl attempting to get close to him and manipulating external events from her distant perch to monitor his progress through a hyper-advanced magical clone named Rosti Nauman, whom she remotely pilots from her tower chamber. Colette Loire: Colette Loire acts as Will's earliest and most fiercely loyal defender within the cutthroat environment of the Regarden Academy, belonging to a prestigious lineage and possessing exceptional proficiency in earth-based magic, a discipline she uses to construct defensive barriers, alter terrain, and generate overwhelming physical constructs. Unlike her classmates who view Will with open disgust, Colette sees his unyielding spirit, developing a deep romantic crush on him while consistently serving as his emotional anchor before joining the Earth Faction where her formidable talent is quickly recognized. Sion Ulster: Sion Ulster enters the narrative as Will's primary schoolyard rival, driven by a toxic cocktail of noble pride and deep-seated insecurity. Specializing in volatile, high-output fire magic, Sion is used to dominating his peers and initially targets Will out of pure resentment, unable to comprehend how a magicless defect could outshine him in physical combat, though their relationship shifts dramatically during a crisis in the dungeon where Will saves his life, shattering Sion’s arrogant worldview and transforming his hatred into a fierce, competitive obsession to push his flame sorcery to deadly extremes. Julius Reinberg: Julius Reinberg begins as another elite student at Regarden, an ice-magic specialist who models himself after the grand image of Elfaria, viewing those below him with cold indifference until he is thoroughly tested by the horrors of the deeper dungeon floors, undergoing significant character growth by learning to suppress his ego and coordinating his freezing spells with Will's physical assaults. Lihanna Owenzaus: Lihanna Owenzaus is a martial prodigy driven by a desperate noble burden to pull her aristocratic family back from the brink of financial ruin, operating as a rare Magic Knight who utilizes lightning magic to hyper-accelerate her nervous system, boost her physical speed, and deliver high-voltage close-quarters strikes. Upon witnessing Will's raw combat efficiency, she completely abandons all noble prejudice to integrate him into her tactical formations, a decision that pays off immensely when they both graduate into the Thunder Faction. Wignall Lindor: Wignall Lindor represents the proud, insular legacy of the Elven race within the academy walls, specializing in high-precision wind and illusion magic, though he harbors deep internal anxieties regarding his own standing among elite elven mages until he shatters his internal mental blocks after witnessing Will’s raw determination during high-floor dungeon trials. Rosti Nauman: Rosti Nauman is Will's overly affectionate and attentive roommate at the academy who works as a highly skilled magic artificer, specializing in crafting custom equipment, goggles, and tools specifically tailored to help Will compensate for his lack of a wand. Rosti's true identity is eventually revealed to be an elaborate, lifelike magical construct created and remotely controlled by Elfaria from her seat at the top of the tower, serving as her secret window to physically interact with, support, and watch over Will. Aaron Masterias Oldking: Aaron Masterias Oldking stands as the oldest, most venerated, and structurally senior member among the Magia Vander, commanding absolute light magic. He acts as the de facto grand chancellor of the Mercedes Caulis tower, carrying the immense political and historical burden of maintaining the massive magical barrier that keeps the sky-dwelling invaders from consuming the remnants of humanity. Zeo Thorzeus Reinbolt: Zeo Thorzeus Reinbolt is the hyper-aggressive, battle-hungry Magia Vander who commands the Thunder Seat and leads the Thunder Faction. He detests rigid bureaucratic rules and purely values raw combat adaptability, which prompts him to scout Will directly into his faction following a chaotic confrontation in the upper tower floors, subsequently subjecting the young swordsman to incredibly lethal vanguard training regimens. Cariott Incindia Wiseman: Cariott Incindia Wiseman holds the Fire Seat among the Magia Vander, serving as an unyielding traditionalist who firmly believes in bloodline purity, absolute destructive magical throughput, and strict adherence to institutional laws. He initial regards Will as a highly dangerous societal aberration whose physical prowess threatens to undo the foundational belief that magic equals absolute power. Ellenor Ljos Alf: Ellenor Ljos Alf is the ancient, aloof Queen of the Elves who occupies the Wind Seat among the Magia Vander. She possesses an incredibly profound connection to primal spirit magic and views human magical advancements with a sense of detached superiority, focusing her primary efforts on protecting the natural order and preserving the sacred heritages of her long-lived race. Workner Norgram: Workner Norgram is a compassionate professor at Regarden Academy who specializes in summoning and familiar management. He serves as one of the extremely rare staff members who actively acknowledges Will's unseen combat value and deep inner struggle, frequently intervening behind the scenes to provide Will with custom dungeon harvesting assignments so the boy can secure enough credits to avoid academic expulsion. Edward Serfence: Edward Serfence is a senior professor at the academy who initially functions as a harsh antagonist toward Will due to his severe, unforgiving strictness on campus. He is revealed to be a deeply traumatized veteran of past high-risk dungeon expeditions, leading him to believe that allowing a magicless student to advance into the lower floors is essentially sentencing him to a horrific death, which fuels his desperate attempts to fail Will out of the school for his own protection. Caldron Anouve: Caldron Anouve is the enigmatic Headmaster of Regarden Academy who presents herself to the public as a frail elderly woman but continuously uses top-tier illusion and transmutation magic to mask her true state and move through society unnoticed. She holds a vast, deeply buried understanding of the true cyclical history of the world, the architectural mysteries of the dungeon, and the dangerous potential locked inside Will's body. Iris Chateaubriand: Iris Chateaubriand operates as the cunning and highly analytical head of the Tower's Intelligence and Observer Division, utilizing complex detection, scouting, and visual transmission magic to monitor major geopolitical shifts, academy examinations, and emerging threats within the lower dungeon floors. Gordon Barette: Gordon Barette is a veteran high-ranking vanguard warrior within the Thunder Faction who serves directly beneath Zeo Thorzeus Reinbolt, utilizing heavy physical reinforcement spells to act as a brutal, unforgiving drill instructor for incoming recruits like Will. Lily: Lily is a nimble lower-floor support scout who works within the dungeon's peripheral networks, leveraging specialized stealth, rapid evasion, and tracking magic to map out volatile monster migration paths and assist the primary exploration groups during deep-floor descents. Ashley Serfort: Ashley Serfort is the foundational maternal figure who ran the Serfort Orphanage where both Will and Elfaria were raised, instilling the moral principles, deep mutual devotion, and lasting childhood promises that serve as the primary emotional catalyst for the entire narrative. Finn: Finn is an exceptionally mysterious, diminutive underground entity who possesses an unfathomable depth of ancient knowledge regarding the true nature of the dungeon's birth, the structural weakness of the sky barrier, and the cataclysmic history of the Celestial Host, functioning as a cryptic harbinger for the world-altering conflicts to come. Donny Noman: Donny Noman is an early minor antagonist turned background classmate at the Regarden Magical Academy. A proud student who specializes in basic wind magic, he initially treats Will with immense condescension, mocking his lack of a wand and attempting to use him as a scapegoat during practical dungeon exercises before being thoroughly outclassed by Will's pure physical combat speed. Winston Moore: Winston Moore is another member of the noble student body at Regarden who aligns himself with the anti-non-mage rhetoric prevalent in the academy's upper ranks. Primarily relying on standard elemental projectile magic, he frequently participates in the social alienation of Will during their early academy years, serving to highlight the deep-seated institutional prejudice Will had to overcome daily. Rihanna’s Party Members (Unnamed Academy Elites): These are the various high-ranking students who filled out the vanguard slots of the academy's top-tier exploration parties during the graduation exams. While individually lesser-known, they represent the peak of textbook magical education, relying heavily on defensive barriers and structured elemental casting that falters when confronted with irregular, uncatalogued dungeon monsters. Logos Faction Candidates: These are the competitive upperclassmen and prospective tower candidates who align themselves with the traditionalist factions during the Magia Vander recruitment arcs. They embody the rigid mindset that magic volume and bloodline status are the sole metrics of a mage’s worth, acting as social and physical obstacles for Will and his allies during the chaotic competitive trials. Elfi's Maid / Tower Attendants: These are the personal assistants and magical attendants stationed within the highest chambers of the Mercedes Caulis tower who serve Elfaria Albis Serfort. They are constantly bewildered, stressed, and overwhelmed by Elfaria's eccentric behavior, her complete lack of interest in traditional tower politics, and her borderline unhealthy obsession with monitoring Will's daily life in the lower world. The Grand Dukes of the Underworld (Dungeon Monsters / Sentient Horrors): These are the named or distinctively categorized high-tier boss monsters, such as the Devastator variants and the uncatalogued irregulars encountered on the deeper floors. While not human characters, they possess a malicious, predatory intelligence and ancient magical composition that actively reacts to the presence of Will's "Wis" energy, treating his physical anti-magic nature as a primary threat to the dungeon's ecosystem. The Celestial Host / Sky Invaders (Lore Entities): These are the primordial, apocalyptic entities existing outside the protective barrier maintained by the Magia Vander. Visually and historically referenced throughout the series' deeper lore drops, they represent the ultimate external threat to humanity, possessing reality-warping cosmic attributes that standard human magic is fundamentally incapable of scratching, setting up the narrative necessity for Will's unique physical-magical hybridization. The Previous Generation Magia Vander (Historical): These are the shadowy figures from the world's history who previously held the elemental seats before the ascension of the current lords like Aaron and Elfaria. They are referenced in historical texts and flashbacks within the tower libraries, establishing the strict laws of succession and the historical precedent that no magicless individual has ever been permitted to breathe the air of the upper tower floors. Serafina Astrea: Serafina Astrea is a minor noble student at the Regarden Magical Academy who strictly aligns herself with the school's anti-non-mage social hierarchy. She frequently appears in the background of early chapters expressing vocal disgust whenever Will achieves high academic marks, serving as an environmental character to reinforce the severe societal discrimination Will faces before his combat prowess is publicly proven. Nico Stark: Nico Stark is a classmate of Will’s who specializes in basic manipulation magic. While not possessing the overwhelming raw power of students like Sion or Julius, Nico is a textbook example of an average, middle-tier student at Regarden who relies entirely on standard incantations and wand-wielding conventions, serving as a baseline contrast to Will's completely unorthodox, weapon-based physical fighting style. The Dungeon Security Guardians: The Dungeon Security Guardians are specialized, mid-to-high-ranked mages deployed by the tower to monitor the upper and middle floors of the dungeon during student examinations. They are equipped with sensory and barrier magic to protect students from sudden structural collapses or unexpected monster migrations, though they are completely overwhelmed when high-level irregular horrors bypass the security nets. The Grand Alchemist / Tower Forge Masters: These are the unnamed but structurally vital background NPCs operating within the lower tiers of the Mercedes Caulis tower. They work directly with the materials brought back by dungeon raiders, utilizing high-level transmutative and forge magic to craft the specialized wands, cloaks, and armor worn by the tower's elite factions, establishing the economic and industrial backbone of the setting's magic-driven society. The Orphanage Children: These are the background characters featured in the episodic flashbacks detailing Will and Elfaria’s childhood at the Serfort Orphanage. While individually unnamed, their collective presence highlights the humble, isolated origins of the protagonists, framing the immense contrast between Will’s starting point as a penniless, magicless orphan and his eventual ascent into the elite military factions of the tower. The Magic Faction Recruited Grunts: These are the low-ranking, standard soldiers who comprise the vanguard and rear-guard ranks of the elemental factions (Fire, Wind, Earth, and Thunder). They do not possess the unique traits of the Magia Vander or named elites, but they populate the background of large-scale operations, utilizing synchronized, mass-casting formations to suppress standard monster hordes while the named protagonists deal with high-tier threats.

Will: 'The tower is the only place that matters. Without magic, you're nothing but a servant here.' Elfaria: 'I'll make sure he reaches the top, no matter what it takes.' Sion: 'I won't lose to a magicless defect again!' Zeo: 'Show me your strength, boy! If you can't survive, you aren't worth my time.'

The setting is the Regarden Magical Academy, an elite institution dedicated to training the elite mages who will ascend the Magical Tower. The world is built on a rigid hierarchy: mages are the elite, while those lacking magical talent are treated as second-class citizens. Students constantly venture into dangerous dungeons to earn credits and prove their worth. Tensions are high as competition for the few spots in the Tower becomes desperate. In the world of [Wistoria: Wand and Sword], magic is the absolute measure of human worth, and society is governed from atop the Mercedesca Wizard’s Tower by five supreme mages known as the Magia Vander who maintain a magical barrier to protect humanity from celestial invaders. The narrative centers on Will Serfort, an orphaned boy entering the prestigious Regarden Magical Academy with a devastating societal flaw: he cannot cast a single spell. Ostracized by his peers and deemed a complete failure by his professors, Will refuses to quit due to a deep childhood promise made to his closest friend and love interest, Elfaria Albis Serfort, pledging that they would ascend the tower together to look at a real sunset. While Elfaria’s immense magical genius allows her to become the youngest Magia Vander in history, Will is left behind at the bottom, forcing him to secretly refine his physical strength and flawless swordsmanship while hunting dangerous monsters in the academy dungeon to acquire enough replacement academic credits to avoid expulsion. As Will faces increasingly lethal trials, including a targeted practical exam by a hostile professor and a chaotic outbreak at the Grand Magic Festival, his hidden nature begins to unravel before his classmates, proving he does not lack magic but actually holds a legendary, forgotten fifth element called Whis. This unique ability acts as a magical siphon, allowing him to absorb external spells directly into his body and sword through a process called priming, which grants him immense power whenever he pushes his physical body past its limits in a state known as Limit Off. After surviving a disastrous dungeon expedition where eleven high-ranking academy professors are slaughtered, Will earns the deep respect of former rivals like Sion, Julius, and Lihanna, subsequently entering the brutal Graduation Finals where he defies institutional bias to successfully graduate from Regarden. Upon crossing into the highly competitive Wizard’s Tower, Will bypasses traditional elemental factions and is immediately thrust into a darker geopolitical conflict involving the Gohtia, a rogue faction working from the shadows to assassinate elite mages and collapse the global barrier. As the story expands from a school underdog tale into an apocalyptic war against impending celestial monsters, Will must team up with powerful tower factions to root out internal traitors, proving that the world's ultimate survival relies completely on the destined union of Wand and Sword. The academic and physical progression in [Wistoria: Wand and Sword] is defined by a ruthless sequence of examinations, competitive tournaments, and deadly practical survival trials designed to weed out the weak from ascending the Wizard's Tower. Will Serfort’s trial by fire begins daily in the treacherous Regarden Dungeon, where his lack of magic forces him to hunt high-risk monsters on the lower floors just to gather enough raw monster drop items to convert into academic credits, effectively substituting physical combat for missing magical coursework. This unconventional path provokes the ire of Professor Edward Serfence, a strict instructor who subjects Will to a targeted, highly biased practical duel in front of the student body, explicitly intending to force a school expulsion by unleashing overwhelming dark-element magic that Will can only survive by utilizing raw speed and precise sword deflections. The institutional pressure dramatically escalates during the highly anticipated Grand Magic Festival, a prestigious school tournament where students compete in intense public arenas to showcase their offensive spells and tactical strategy before scouting tower mages. During this event, Will participates in the high-stakes "Crown Attack" competition, navigating a hazardous, shifting maze while fending off rival magical squads, which forces him to form an unlikely tactical alliance with the fire mage Sion and pull off a stunning upset by physically stealing the victory crown from the academy's favored elite students. Following the public festival, the school environment shifts into pure survival horror during the All-Student Praxis, a mandatory collective training expedition into the deeper eleventh floor of the dungeon that goes horribly wrong when a malicious faction deliberately sabotages the safety barriers. This trial rapidly mutates into a desperate slaughterhouse as the students are ambushed by the "Evil Grand Duke," an incredibly powerful, undocumented clone monster that massacres eleven veteran academy professors and traps the remaining students. This catastrophic event demands that Will lead a desperate vanguard alongside magical prodigies Julius Reinberg and Lihanna Owenzaus, pushing his physical body into a dangerous "Limit Off" state to absorb their spells and execute a combined strategy to slay the colossal beast. Having survived the dungeon massacre, Will enters the final academic hurdle known as the Graduation Finals, a brutal battle royale tournament where students are completely stripped of their standard protective barriers and forced to fight to unconsciousness or surrender under the direct, watchful observation of the Magia Vander. Will definitively proves his martial worth in this final tournament by breaking through the defensive spells of the academy's top seniors, forcing the institution to acknowledge his martial prowess and grant him entry into the competitive hierarchy of the Wizard’s Tower. Once inside the tower, the trials transform into relentless workplace combat exercises and intense internal security operations, requiring Will to pass strict elemental faction screening tests, endure hazing matches against veteran upper-tower knights, and investigate hidden saboteurs while constantly fending off surprise assassinations launched by the rogue Gohtia organization.