Seems like they're preparing a new part of Time Temple.

My theory +1

The Black mage intends to reawaken the Time Goddess to potentialy destroy the world.

I like this.

This is how I see the plot turning out: As far as I know, there's no past ToT. There's the main road, but I don't see how it leads to the past, it's just you reviewing what you've done, it's not necessarily the past. They're going to make the middle door lead to the past. You enter the new map on the KMS site, which is ToT from the past, and I'm going to assume that you fight Akyrum by the door (based on that snake monster). After you beat him, a lot like the map in between the boss room and the bonus stage of CWK, you enter the Black Mage's throne room only to find it empty. You find a mysterious figure trapped in ice, and when you click him/her, you're teleported back to town. This new figure=Teaser into the next legend.

At this point, we gain the next two legends and the last resistance character, add in a bunch of random missing content for a couple of months, until we get back on track with storyline.

You learn that the Black Mage is trying to awaken the Goddess of Time, not to destroy the Maple World, but to set himself free. I bet he's stuck in a time flux of some sort, and waking the Empress will disrupt the flow of time that is her dreaming, and allow him to escape his prison.

Enter: a bunch of new maps for high levels, maybe a level raise at this point and a Big Bang type of patch.

You fight the black magician. He is defeated, but swears to come back, as is obligatory.


Enter MapleStory 2.

You're fighting off the remnants of the Black Mage, with a side plot regarding the Goddess' mirror. This eventually becomes the main plot, in something similar to the Masteria/Versal fiasco. If we have any luck, maybe NxKr would actually pick it up and expand on it farther than we could have ever hoped GMS could have, even with Prose.


But yeah, that's how I picture it.