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

First things first:

CMS, TMS, and MSEA are NOT KMS. Furthermore, I think they deal less with the Black Mage than we or jMS do.

As for Bakal, here. A picture of what his humanoid form looks like (taken from DFOSource, I credit Neople and IamSummoner for its use):

Your point? You said something wrong; I corrected you.
I conceded that Episode 1 didn't originate from KMS, so don't get huffy.

No idea what purpose showing me a picture of an antagonist from a random series serves....

Now, regarding the Lich King - the article you posted is a year old. Furthermore, if memory serves correctly, we ACTUALLY didn't unlock the Lich King fight until late 2010. That article was most likely posted before the World Firsts, or a little after (due to how it doesn't show his Citadel battlefield).

The article is not "a year old".
It's from December 8, 2010. God, reading is damn hard.

Edit - In addition, your timeline is also off. Apparently, the Lich King fight was available as early as May 2010.

As for the Black Mage always being a boss? Sure, it's like redoing the final battle of Zelda 64 after you've beaten it - sure he's still alive, but that's because you're pretty much not killing him for story reasons - you're farming his drops. When I said what I did, I meant killing him for the purpose of ending that specific plot, not for putting him on farm status, like how Zakum is (and quests in Maple aren't in real time, which further backs up my point).

Except it isn't anything like that.
When you beat Ocarina of Time and restart your save file, you don't start the game at a point after you've killed Ganon. That's impossible.
You will always start at a point before killing him, so the story has not progressed.

If Maplestory's story progresses past the point where the Black Mage has been killed, but you can still go back and kill him, then there is an issue of continuity.

My definition of more than once equals just that. You can reuse him for a plot, sure. But do that more than once, and it suddenly becomes ugly. It's like Team Rocket - technically they SHOULD be over and done with, but every episode they come back, like flies.

So you're going the 'hypocrite' route. That or you think the story of Mabinogi is pomegranate, which would be odd seeing your penchant towards referencing it.
Because, apparently, this Cichol guy has been the antagonist in seven different story arcs.

EDIT - As for my avatar, it's Megaman Star Force, the pseudo-sequel to Battle Network.

That explains why it's familiar but unfamiliar.
Using a different threat every game didn't prevent that series from being pomegranate.