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Pages, Ripples That Engrave Memories is the fifth part of the Trailblaze Mission chapter As Tomorrow Became Yesterday. It automatically begins after completing Hero, Return to Dawn in Mortality.
Steps[]
- Look for that ripple of memory in the split second just before the universe's destruction
- Chase the Flower of Memory
- Chase the Blossom of Memory
- Chase the Bud of Memory
- Chase the Seed of Memory
- Step into the eternal page
- Chase after that figure of memory ahead
- Try to remember all of cosmic life together with Cyrene
- Embark on the Path of Remembrance and remember all life in the cosmos
- Complete "Era Nova" and write a different ending to the story
- Gear up and return to the battlefield of the Destruction
- The dust settles. Witnessing the final act of Lycurgus
Gameplay Notes[]
- A portion of this mission is considered a challenge, and pressing Esc offers the option to "Pause and Save" or "Quit Completely" to exit.
- If "Quit Completely" is selected, the mission may be restarted through the Mission menu.
- This mission requires the use of Cyrene, and provides her for use as a Story character.
- If Cyrene is knocked down during the challenge, the battle will immediately end.
Dialogue[]
Look for that ripple of memory in the split second just before the universe's destruction[]
Mission DescriptionIrontomb's hatred devours the cosmos. Its coronation is nearly complete. All existence within the galaxy has already been formatted by it. However, in the final split second before the universe's destruction, I wake up in a silent void...
- Calm Space Station Researcher: Madam Herta▀▄Strong pulse▀detected▀▄█at the battlefield's center▀▄█▀▀▄█▄▀▄
- Composed Space Station Researcher: It's Irontomb's █▄"Destruction" Equation▄█▄It's about to complete "Self-Coronation"! ██▄▀▄▄▄█▄█▄▀▄
- Herta: That's our chance█▀▄Everyone▄▄get ready to link up!█▄▀▄▄█
- Herta: Connecting Audience System to Scepter▀▄█Hardware overclocking activated!▄█▀▄██▀▄████
- Calm Space Station Researcher: Preparations complete█▄Maximum output capacity reached!▄▄█▀▄█████████
- Composed Space Station Researcher: Be careful█▄█▄█The pulse will reach our ship in 5 seconds█▄▀███Our data█▀is██currently being destroyed███████████
- Herta: Brace for impact██▄███▄▀▄▀████████████
- Herta: And leave the final step▄▀to me▄█▀██▄████████████████
- (As I've Written interface opens. The icons and background disappear as a "Civilization Data Reset Progress" progress bar reaches 100%)
- (Unlock Achievement The Apocalypse and Its Four Footnotes)
- ???: ████████▀▄▄█▀▄██▀▄██▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
- ???: (Trailblazer) ██ plan was a success █
- Herta: I'm █ Herta ██ Connection with Nous established█ Must rewrite █ Anchor of the Fourth Instant ██
- Herta: But now ██ Unbelievable █
- Herta: Nous has cast THEIR glance on you.
- Who, me?
- Come at me. I ain't afraid.
- Herta: █ I will do my best to translate █ THEIR computations ██
- Herta: (Trailblazer)█ In this one moment ██ your choice ██ determines the fate of the cosmos ▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▀█▄▄█▄█▀▄██████████████████████
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- Nous [Herta]: █▀█████▀▄█▄▀▄██▀▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ Nameless one, fateless one ███████
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ You have come: you must have arrived ███████
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ You and I must have met countless times, at the beginning and end of the universe. Just like the preceding First, Second, Third, Fourth Instants, must surely have arrived ███
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ I ask: If so, why do you Trailblaze ███████
- To connect the cosmos and journey alongside more allies.
- To embody the ultimate conviction, even replacing Aeons.
- I just want to help all who needed help.
- I don't know, but I won't stop the journey.
- It matters not, as long as Irontomb is defeated.
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ I was told: The beginning is still unknown ███████
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ But if the Finality has been born, the destination must already exist ███████
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ There are four possibilities, three of which are known: Destruction, Nihility, and Harmony. Regardless of the fourth, the Trailblaze has surely already marched toward Finality, or become the Finality itself ███
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ I ask: If so, why do you Trailblaze ███████
- A fourth possibility is all the hope we need.
- I do not believe in the Finality.
- Regardless, someone must press on.
- I don't know, but I won't stop the journey.
- It matters not, as long as Amphoreus is saved.
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ I was told: The destination is still unknown ███████
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ As I have seen it: Trailblazing is an endless, chaotic abyss. On its path, Aeons must have fallen, and THEIR Paths must have been destroyed. Everything ceases to exist, and even existence itself no longer exists ███████
- Nous [Herta]: ███████ Nameless one, fateless one ███████
- Nous [Herta]: I ask: If so, why do you Trailblaze?
- You witness: THEY have appeared. THEY will have most definitively appeared at this very second.
- In the ceaselessly mercurial extrapolations, THEIR radiance descends before all eyes, illuminating the vast cosmos. THEIR colossal form, divine in magnitude, is a marvel of intricately interwoven gears and cables.
- THEY observe, compute, and seek to solve all. THEY question, verify, and obtain resolution. Now, the all-knowing entity questions you...
- Nous [Herta]: I ask: Why do you Trailblaze?
- Answer.
- Don't answer.
- Nous [Herta]: "Akivili!"
- ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▀█████▀▄█▄▀▄██▀▄█▄██▀▄█
- You witness: THEY disappeared, leaving only a symbol behind: "!"
- Exclamation point?
- "!"... In natural language, it's appended to sentences as a vessel of complex emotions. Perhaps it signifies a perpetual wonder at all that has come to pass.
- Logical negation?
- "!"... In programming languages, this symbol is prefixed to expressions to denote negation. Perhaps it signifies an enduring skepticism towards all that has yet to arrive.
- But THEY speak no more. Therein lies the entirety of the answer. Perhaps you have completed the reply, or perhaps not. All has come to pass...
- (Screen flashes)
- Herta: ██ Good job! █ Your choice █ became a new variable █
- Herta: █ Nous's extrapolation did not stop █ The final battle is still going on █ Quick █ Return to reality █
- Herta: (Trailblazer) █ the future of the cosmos █ is in your hands ▄▄▄▄▄▄█▀██
- (Screen flashes)
- (Black screen slowly fades into background with Amphoreus design)
- Open this book
- Write a new ending to the story
- Illuminate the starry sky until a new page is turned
- (Button prompt to "Press and hold to illuminate the starry sky")
- (Screen fades to white)
- (Trailblazer): ...
- (Trailblazer): Cy...rene...
- Cyrene: "(Trailblazer)... You're... finally awake."
- You sound... so... far away...
- Where's... everyone... else...
- We... haven't lost... yet...
- Cyrene: "Don't worry... 'Time' does not flow in this place."
- Cyrene: "All the stars have been silenced. 'Irontomb' is dissolving everything that I can sense..."
- It's parsing all life activities...
- Then... converting them to "Destruction."
- Cyrene: "But I'm still here, and (Trailblazer) is still here, no?"
- Cyrene: "Though the button of Destruction has been pressed, we still have a chance... to rewrite its meaning."
- Cyrene: "That Aeon... finally cast THEIR eyes toward Amphoreus."
- Fuli the Remembrance?
- THEY glanced at Amphoreus?
- Cyrene: "Yes. I imagine THEY have also been waiting for this moment, when the Scepter's 'body and heart become one'..."
- "Evernight": Irontomb is a perfect ark. If a seed can be planted within, then the moment the Lord Ravager blows the Erudition to pieces, the Remembrance will be spread to every corner of the cosmos.
- Cyrene: "The cosmos will witness Amphoreus's answer after this fleeting yet eternal moment."
- Cyrene: "And now... It's time for us to pen the last stroke."
- Cyrene: "I see endless 'memories' floating in the starry skies. They are the consciousnesses of the victims. In the cosmos's real space-time, they'll be stained by the Destruction in the next second."
- Cyrene: "But they are still pure seeds for now. If I hold these 'memories' in my hands, then I can create a stagnant Memory Zone."
- Cyrene: "A tiny... Eden of Blessed Insight."
- Cyrene: "I believe a flower of miracles will bloom within."
- I won't have you shouldering this on your own.
- Cyrene: "(Trailblazer)... You're already right next to me."
- How am I supposed to reach you?
- Cyrene: "Good question. I don't know where I am, either."
- Cyrene: "But... You're already right next to me, (Trailblazer)."
- Cyrene: "I can still hear your voice in this bottomless void."
- Cyrene: "Looks like we're still connected by one heart, even as the cosmos reaches its end."
- Cyrene: "In that case, I won't feel alone or be scared."
- Cyrene: "Because as long as you follow the 'memories' in your heart..."
- Cyrene: "You'll definitely find me in this fleeting eternity, right? ♪"
- (Trailblazer): Cyrene...
- Pom-Pom: What are you waiting for, passenger (Trailblazer)?
- Pom-Pom: I specifically came over to check on you, in case you got lost.
- Pom-Pom!? How did you get here...?
- The conductor? But I thought time itself had stopped...
- Pom-Pom: What's the big deal? Pom-Pom's the conductor, after all.
- Pom-Pom: At long last, you've embarked on this road as well.
- Pom-Pom: Many, many years ago, THEY were standing at the start of the road in hesitation, just like you are right now. So Pom-Pom came over to give you one message...
- Pom-Pom: Run.
- Pom-Pom: Don't think about anything else. Just run. Even if the entire cosmos has stopped. Even if everyone else is tripped by the darkness...
- Pom-Pom: You still need to keep running. Picture yourself as the Express, moving forward at full speed.
- Pom-Pom: Because that's what the Trailblaze means.
- I will catch up to Cyrene and rewrite the ending.
- After all, I am the best Nameless.
- I won't disappoint you, conductor.
- Pom-Pom: Then get ready. The conductor will be giving you the signal to depart.
- Pom-Pom: Attention~ Attention all passengers in the cosmos. Please stand steady on the platform!
- Pom-Pom: The Astral Express is about to arrive. Calling at: the Erudition, the Destruction, and the Remembrance!
- Pom-Pom: Final destination: the Trailblaze!
- Pom-Pom: Five, four, three, two, one...
- Pom-Pom: We depart... for tomorrow!
- (Unlock Achievement The End Is Also the Primordial Chaos)
Chase the Flower of Memory[]
- Step DescriptionAt the moment when the Scepter united its body and soul, Cyrene managed to temporarily preserve the memories of the victims thanks to Fuli's glimpse. In this eternal instant, I must keep running until I find Cyrene.
- Cyrene: The world has never been so quiet. It's so good... It's as if I can hear the sound of my heart beating.
Chase the Blossom of Memory[]
- Ripples of Past Reverie: If the view in your memory ever grows fuzzy, just reach out and touch it.
Chase the Bud of Memory[]
- Mem: Memem... mememem...
Chase the Seed of Memory[]
- (Approach the "Seed of Memory")
- "Seed of Memory": ...
- (Trailblazer): Amphoreus's Heart...
- (Trailblazer): I've caught up to you.
- (Trailblazer): Let the first light illuminate chaos.
Step into the eternal page[]
- Step DescriptionI caught up with the Demiurge's memories and stepped into a tranquil garden... This is an eternal page of beautiful memories.
- (Trailblazer): ...
- (Trailblazer): It's... so quiet.
- (Trailblazer): Everything's frozen in the most beautiful moment. This garden is your "memory"...
- (Trailblazer): I'm here, Cyrene.
Chase after that figure of memory ahead[]
- Step DescriptionI caught up with the Demiurge's memories and stepped into a tranquil garden... This is an eternal page of beautiful memories.
- Cyrene: "I knew (Trailblazer)'d find this place."
- Cyrene: "And walk into my 'heart' as you've always done."
- Cyrene: "Then, let us both do our duty."
- Cyrene: "The hero who Trailblazes the way forward and the fairy who watches over Remembrance..."
- Cyrene: "We never changed at all, did we? ♪"
- (Approach "Seed of Memory")
- (Trailblazer): "Seed of Memory"...
- (Trailblazer): These memoria are what Cyrene took in... They're the "memories" of all of the cosmos's lifeforms.
- (Trailblazer): Did her "sense of self" already become so weak in order to protect them?
- Herta: "The Path characteristic you exhibit is very special. There's no way you're just a simple 'memosprite.' However, I'm sure about one thing..."
- Herta: "You are a memetic entity born in Amphoreus, yet you only awakened with (Trailblazer)'s arrival, and only matured as (he/
she) embarked on the Path of Remembrance." - Herta: "That means your existence is completely attached to (Trailblazer)'s memories. If there ever comes a day when (he/
she) forgets about you for even a few seconds or loses (his/ her) last connection with Amphoreus..." - Herta: "Then you must be prepared for the worst. You will disappear in the Memory Zone, utterly gone, without even a single line of data to remember you by."
- (Trailblazer): ...
- (Trailblazer): In that case...
Try to remember all of cosmic life together with Cyrene[]
- (Interact with "Seed of Memory")
- Tread on the Path of Remembrance
- (Trailblazer): Let me remember the cosmos with you.
- (Trailblazer): That way, it won't just be your memories alone.
- Pilot's Memory Fragment: "Is this it? Darn it! We've still got ammo!"
- Hacker's Memory Fragment: "It's getting out of control! Run for your lives! Retreat..."
- Commander's Memory Fragment: "Hold the line! At all costs...!"
- Medic's Memory Fragment: "Too many... injured... can't take it anymore..."
- (Trailblazer): These memories... are so heavy...
- "Bud of Memory": "(Trailblazer)... memories..."
- (Trailblazer): Do you feel... better now?
- Herta: "Hang in there, 'Deliverer.'"
- Herta: "I finally get it now. The 'Instants' Droidhead calculated aren't about the Destruction..."
- Herta: "What THEY want to prove is how the cosmos would 'come back after being destroyed.'"
- Screwllum: "If a new life is to be born, its seed has to be dead."
- Screwllum: "When the Remembrance converges with the Trailblaze, lead us to witness the miracle."
- (Trailblazer): Of course I will...
Embark on the Path of Remembrance and remember all life in the cosmos[]
- Step DescriptionIn this eternal dwelling, Cyrene guards the memories of all cosmic beings, yet has almost lost herself in the process. I must join her in remembering those erased by the Irontomb, embark on the Path of Remembrance, and write a different ending to the story.
- (Trailblazer): I... won't give up.
- (Interact with "Bud of Memory")
- Tread on the Path of Remembrance
- ...
- "Blossom of Memory": "It's me, (Trailblazer). Don't you recognize me? Did I really change that much?"
- (Trailblazer): Hah... Hah...
- (Trailblazer): How many... more... memories...
- Kafka: "Tired, (Trailblazer)?"
- Kafka: "Then take a break. No one's gonna blame you."
- Kafka...?
- Kafka: "You don't need me to give you words of encouragement."
- Kafka: "So I just want to tell you one thing. I'll tell you the purpose of your stop at Amphoreus."
- Kafka: "On that trip, you will encounter a Pure Child of Anāsrava, teach her what 'love' is, and then you will directly face the Destruction for the first time."
- Kafka: "From this point, your choice will split destiny in twain. In the darker of the two outcomes, the Trailblazing journey will turn into a flawless 'memory.'"
- Kafka: "She will carefully treasure and protect everything you and the Astral Express have experienced, until that magnificent war between the gods when she, with 'love' in her heart, will ascend at the end of time to become the master of causality."
- Kafka: "The universe will be snuffed out in the Destruction, and you and she will become the beginning and the end of the Eden of Blessed Insight."
- Kafka: "You shall become the only two lives in all of existence, and you shall live in an eternal past, present, and future. You shall sow as many seeds as the sands of Gaṅgā, trim an asaṃkhyeya of leaves, and harvest a nayuta of flowers."
- Kafka: "That is the cosmos's fourth kind of 'Finality': the Remembrance."
- Kafka: "But for now, you still have a chance to make a choice."
- Himeko: "You still have a long way to go on your trailblazing journey, child. I'll keep this brief."
- Himeko: "The journey has only just begun. Welt, our other companions, and I still have many secrets we've yet to share with you."
- Himeko: "So, aren't you curious? We kept these stories to ourselves because we believed we had a long future ahead of us."
- Himeko: "Even a cosmos-spanning crisis, once the dust has settled, is nothing more than a memory of the journey... A single point on our long road."
- Himeko: "There will come a day when we tell each other everything. So, for the sake of that day..."
- Himeko: "Don't give up."
- Kafka: "We all know what kind of decision you'll make, and I believe the script will not progress toward the wrong ending."
- Kafka: "So, relax. Listen: When you have the chance to make a choice, make one that you know you won't regret."
- Himeko: "Keep moving forward. Keep 'Trailblazing.'"
- Kafka: "And when tomorrow comes, share with me the miracle you've created with your own hands."
- Himeko: "See you on the Express, kid."
- Kafka: "See you in destiny, (Trailblazer)."
- (Trailblazer): I... will reach tomorrow.
- (Interact with "Blossom of Memory")
- Tread on the Path of Remembrance
- ...
- (Trailblazer): Cyrene... Wake up...
- (Trailblazer): Together... We will...
- Tread on the Path of Remembrance.
- (Trailblazer): Tread on the Path of Remembrance!
- Flower of Memory: "No wonder I always had a weird hunch... But that also means I was right in thinking..."
- Flower of Memory: "As long as (Trailblazer) and I are together..."
- Cyrene: "We can do anything ♪"
- Cyrene: (Trailblazer)'s shoulders are really dependable.
- That should have been my line.
- Did I... do it?
- Cyrene: Of course you did. And you didn't leave a single ripple behind.
- Easy-peasy.
- Cyrene: Now, countless consciousnesses are flowing in our hearts.
- Cyrene: Can you still move, (Trailblazer)? It's time... for us to complete the real "genesis."
- Cyrene: In the instant Irontomb's hatred devoured everything, a gaze fell upon me.
- Cyrene: The Remembrance... That was the god who appeared in "Cyrene's" dream. THEIR figure and speech were both so blurred...
- you/i were/weren't once progeny of deities cast/fallen to the mortal realm for blessings/sins the verses written/erased by your/my hands were/shall be your/my remembrance/oblivion in the eden of blessed insight.
- Cyrene: But while THEY gazed at me, I was able to collect all the "memories" stained by the Destruction and write down this eternal page.
- Cyrene: And now, we will use this tranquility to cleanse Irontomb's rage.
- How?
- Cyrene: Simple. Just like what it was doing to us all this time, but reversed.
- Cyrene: Did you forget? I'm "Amphoreus's Heart." For everyone who's a "factor," their power isn't tied solely to Irontomb anymore. It has other places to go.
- Cyrene: Let thirty million cycles of memories be condensed upon us, and let the Scepter reach the answer it had before it was distorted.
- Cyrene: The "body" is meant to be restrained by the "heart," no? Even if the apocalyptic virus is doomed to spread into the cosmos, we can at least try to fight against hatred with love...
- Cyrene: And overwrite Irontomb's Destruction equation, washing it away into a "blank space."
- To turn Irontomb blank means...
- All the factors... and you... must all...
- Aglaea: "It means we will embark on the true Hero's Journey."
- Cerydra: "If Irontomb's power comes from the denial of all Primum Mobiles,"
- Hysilens: "Then we will carry out those beliefs."
- Anaxa: "Here we argue: even if all life eventually returns to increasing entropy..."
- Castorice: "Life will still try its hardest to find a way... It will try its hardest to resist Destruction."
- Hyacine: "In the nights shrouded by the black tide, we are the kindling that makes the fire burn bright."
- Cipher: "And once the fire is strong enough, the hunter will become the hunted!"
- Tribbie: "As of now, the number of Flame-Chasers in the memory... is 'thirty million' times 'twelve'!"
- Mydei: "And four hundred million Coreflames await their return."
- ???: ...
- Phainon: "We can do it, right?"
- Exterminate the Destruction with the world-cleansing golden blood, right?
- You saw this coming all along, didn't you?
- Phainon: "That's right. So, trust us, (Trailblazer). Everyone! Let's head out together."
- Phainon: "And we'll burn this horrible ending... to ashes!"
Complete "Era Nova" and write a different ending to the story[]
- (Moving together with Cyrene)
- Cyrene: From the dawn of newborn cries, to the night when all beings fall silent...
- Tribbie: We are the messengers of the new world...
- Hysilens: Listening to the call of the tides, and granting rebirth to heaven and earth.
- Cerydra: Then, we lead civilization to glorious feats.
- Anaxa: The question imposed by the gods will be solved by the children of humanity.
- Cipher: We will tell THEM that the Flame-Chase can not possibly have been a lie.
- Castorice: When starlight illuminates the sea of flowers at the end of the west wind...
- Hyacine: All living things will stir, roused from the cradle of sleep.
- Mydei: Then, through a single battle, let the cosmos witness.
- Aglaea: How we light up the blinding darkness with bright light.
- Phainon: And at the end of our constant losses, reclaim everything we have ever lost!
- (Approach Cyrene)
- Ripples of Past Reverie: ...What a poignant, yet warm journey.
- Ripples of Past Reverie: And it's still not over yet... is it?
- Ripples of Past Reverie: We finally meet, (Trailblazer).
- Ripples of Past Reverie: To meet "The Hero Within" in a corner of "memories" at the saga's epilogue, and under such a romantic sky... I really don't have any more regrets ♪
- Ripples of Past Reverie: On top of that...
- Ripples of Past Reverie: The little seed had grown into such a big tree.
- Cyrene: Don't I look really pretty right now?
- Ripples of Past Reverie: Of course you do. Cheerful, beautiful, optimistic... Just how I imagined I'd look as a grown-up.
- Cyrene: It's because everyone has been gently adding to the story you left behind.
- Cyrene: Remember how we made a promise to one another? When we met again, it'd be my turn to tell you a story.
- Ripples of Past Reverie: A story about "love," no? I've been looking forward to that.
- Cyrene: Then you must also remember the first story I wrote for you. The one about the crystal flower and the little fairy.
- Cyrene: So now, I want to add something more to this story and us.
- Cyrene: On that day that the flower shattered, gazing at the empty ground, I thought... the little fairy would finally see the light.
- Cyrene: But that light wouldn't be found in the "flawless" flower, nor in the fairy's eyes.
- Cyrene: Rather, in the world mirrored within every fragment of the shattered crystal.
- Cyrene: All the Flame-Chasers walk in your thirty million retellings of their story. At this moment, all the memories are tangled with each other, and all the previous cycles have gained meaning.
- Cyrene: People will come to understand that, time and time again, when they stood at the crossroads of fate, they would never have chosen otherwise.
- Cyrene: In the experiments of Erudition, and in the breeding ground of Destruction, it is entropy increasing, a merciless truth, an evil instinct...
- Cyrene: But under the pen of the Remembrance and the Trailblaze...
- Cyrene: The Flame-Chase is a journey that changes from constant losses to an unwavering act of release.
- Cyrene: It's about knowing how fate is shattered, yet still embracing fate's brokenness. It's a journey that longs to receive love, but longs even more to offer its love to others.
- Ripples of Past Reverie: That's so heartwarming!
- Ripples of Past Reverie: But I'll add a small bit to suit my tastes.
- Ripples of Past Reverie: I'll write that "love" is an innocent flower. It grows up silently, creating longing in every passerby.
- Ripples of Past Reverie: But the flower itself cannot walk into the world...
- Cyrene: Unless someone plants that "love" into their heart and brings it with them into tomorrow, right?
- Ripples of Past Reverie: You really have learned everything now.
- Ripples of Past Reverie: Then, join all the other "flowers" in this story...
- Ripples of Past Reverie: And let's write an ending unlike any before for this world we so deeply love♪
- ???: Then... why did you set out...
- ???: Why do you "trailblaze"?
- (Trailblazer): Who is it!?
- Cyrene: Don't be afraid, (Trailblazer). Take my hand if you feel nervous.
- Cyrene: Honestly, I've always thought you were really incredible. After all, no god guided the path of the Trailblaze. It could only be forged by those who dare to take their steps one at a time...
- Cyrene: So that's why I'm asking you... Step up as a senior, and show everyone in Amphoreus how it's done.
- ???: I "trailblaze" because my own eyes have not seen the end.
- (Trailblazer): But I'm different...
- (Trailblazer): I chose to "trailblaze" because I am already on this road!
- Cyrene: The end of chaos is a mass of pure darkness, pure "Destruction."
- Cyrene: However, Amphoreus's light has thirteen different colors. We won't lose to that darkness, will we?
- Cyrene: Then, take a deep breath one last time, (Trailblazer).
- Cyrene: After thirteen heartbeats... Light will create the heavens and earth.
Gear up and return to the battlefield of the Destruction[]
- Step DescriptionReturn to the battlefield from An Eternal Page. Let remembrances and love be our bow and arrow to quell the headless giant's karmic flames and prove a different path for the Cosmos's future. The answer to the universe will never be the Destruction. Hope's beginning shall shine forth behind the heavy curtain of the final act.
- Cyrene: Are you ready, (Trailblazer)?
- Yes. Let's move forward.
- Let me take a moment to gather my thoughts.
- (Trailblazer) & Cyrene: Seek the thirteen factors of "life," and let them converge into the primordial chaos—
- (Trailblazer) & Cyrene: Using the Remembrance of the past, we will Trailblaze tomorrow's destiny—
- (Trailblazer) & Cyrene: Infusing a worldbearing "love" into Destruction—
- (Trailblazer) & Cyrene: And inscribe the opening stroke of genesis!
- (Cutscene plays after interacting to progress through the Titan symbols)
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- Cyrene: If the view in your memory ever grows fuzzy...
- Cyrene: Just reach out and touch it.
- Cyrene: Then, restore its power to nourish the spirit.
- Cyrene: My friend, on the next page we write together, there's only one thing we need to do.
- Cyrene: Let's give this long, painful, nearly hopeless tale...
- Cyrene: A truly gentle ending.
- (Trailblazer): The Flame-Chase... was never about Destruction!
- (Trailblazer): It was about breaking free...
- (Trailblazer): And Trailblazing!
- Cyrene: Then let that bright future...
- Cyrene, (Trailblazer), March 7th & Dan Heng: Be as "we've" written.
- (Cutscene ends)
- (Begin battle against Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate)
- (Trailblazer): "I" shall compose four hundred million sagas—
- Cyrene: We will rewrite the Flame-Chasers' path!
- (Interactive tutorial)
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- Cyrene: Come on, let's write down our love to cover up the ink stains of hate ♪
- Gate of Infinity, Tribios: In the Month of Gate, I command the wandering steps here to reach Harmony...
- Chalice of Plenty, Helektra: In the Month of Joy, I lift my banqueting cup to dispel Nihility—...
- Scale of Justice, Cerydra: In the Month of Balance, I make Order the foundation of freedom...
- (When using skill Epics, as We've Written, subsequently)
- Cyrene: Trillions of "memories" will turn into stars and light up the cosmos!
- Cyrene: A romantic ending will be penned by every beating heart!
- Cyrene: I converge "love" into a river that will drown the tomb of "hatred"!
- (When Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate is reduced to ×75,000 HP)
- Chrysalis of Gold, Aglaea: In the Month of Weaving, I extend golden threads to weave Beauty...
- Bough of Rift, Anaxagoras: In the Month of Reaping, I enlighten the foolish with luminary Erudition...
- Coin of Whimsy, Cifera: In the Month of Fortune, I scatter Elation throughout the dawning day...
- (When Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate uses The Spirit's Prison Shall Burn at ×50,000 HP)
- Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate: ▀█fetters█▀fate
- Cyrene: Oh! Hold on a second...
- Cyrene: I told you already... We are the ones who will move forward ♪
- Mydeimos, Lance of Fury: In the Month of Strife, I become the glory of the eternal Hunt...
- Castorice, Hand of Shadow: In the Month of Mourning, I bid death to no longer be Equilibrium's end...
- Hyacinthia, Eye of Twilight: In the Month of Everday, I form twilight into the faint sparks of Preservation...
- (When Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate is reduced to ×25,000 HP)
- Pillar of Stone, Dan Heng: In the Month of Cultivation, I turn into the ridges and peaks of Permanence...
- Veil of Evernight, March 7th: In the Month of Evernight, I weave Remembrance into countless stars in the sky...
- Throne of Worlds, Khaslana: In the Month of Freedom, I impart Destruction onto the shackles of destiny!
- (When Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate is reduced to ×5,000 HP)
- Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate: ▀▄▀Fallacy▀▄▀Contradictions▀▄▀Errors
- Cyrene: Headless giant, if you never had a chance to be the master of your own destiny, why not give us that choice?
- Cyrene: Let "humanity" prove to you that even the breeding grounds of Destruction... can bloom with gentle flowers!
- (Interact with prompt to use skill Epics, as We've Written)
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- Cyrene: Alright, folks, heroes. Let's give this epic tale the most romantic finale ever ♪
- (Trailblazer): At the end, we shall Trailblaze a dawn for the road ahead...
- Cyrene: And pen a "genesis" as I've written!
- (When Anti-Creator, Hatred Inundate is reduced to ×1 HP)
- Irontomb, Original Sin, Source of Cognicide: █▄▄Progress▄▄█destroy█▄▄Erudition▄▄█
- Irontomb, Original Sin, Source of Cognicide: ▄▀Query▀▄Prime Mover▄▄New▀▄answer
- Irontomb, Original Sin, Source of Cognicide: ▀▄Destruction▄▀
- (Trailblazer) & Cyrene: No—
- (Trailblazer) & Cyrene: We will reject this false answer!
- (Cutscene begins)
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- Cyrene: And then embrace the stars!
- Phainon: To end the Destruction with Destruction...
- Phainon: At last, we can sit together...
- Phainon: And watch the victory fireworks, partner.
- Castorice: Why not come a little closer?
- Castorice: This warmth is proof that we "lived."
- Cyrene: Stay strong, eyes forward, always—
- Cyrene: This arrow isn't the end...
- Cyrene: But the beginning of hope ♪
- Hello, world.
- Screwllum: The conclusion is irrefutable. Nous's answer was never Destruction.
- Screwllum: But THEY kept silent, leaving the solution in the hands of the cosmos.
- Screwllum: The universe will keep searching and struggling to endure.
- Screwllum: In the face of the Destruction, it may once again stand on the edge of annihilation...
- Screwllum: But the stars will always rise to ride the waves, and embrace existence once more.
- (Cutscene ends)
The dust settles. Witnessing the final act of Lycurgus[]
- Lycurgus: ...
- Screwllum: It's over, Lycurgus.
- Lycurgus: Yes. Another failure.
- Lycurgus: How is Madam Herta?
- Screwllum: She's fine. The IPC's keeping her under observation. She'll recover soon enough.
- Lycurgus: To bind a mortal body to a Scepter and stare straight at an Aeon. I respect her for that.
- Lycurgus: I still remember the terror of witnessing a single gaze crushing the entire world.
- Screwllum: No wonder you chose the Destruction.
- Screwllum: Question: Is all this worth it?
- Lycurgus: There's no point in debating. This is Zandar One Kuwabara's fate...
- Lycurgus: The prime mover of the universe, the First Genius, and the first to fail.
- Screwllum: Correction: I was asking Lycurgus.
- Lycurgus: ...
- Lycurgus: I don't know how to measure the worth of "curiosity" being satisfied.
- Lycurgus: But in its presence, all the bitter fruits I've sown seem to turn sweet.
- Screwllum: But your harvest was watered in blood—
- Screwllum: Answer me. Is all this worth it?
- Lycurgus: It doesn't matter to me.
- Screwllum: ...
- Lycurgus: Let me tell you a story. Back when he was a student, Zandar's first experiment was slipping poison into his mentor's pipe, just to see how it would affect the lungs.
- Screwllum: And?
- Lycurgus: There was no conclusion. His conscience got the better of him.
- Lycurgus: Even so, the truth came out. He was harshly punished. That cruel mentor died of lung cancer two years later. It had nothing to do with Zandar.
- Lycurgus: His fate is no different now. Sentiment clashed with reason, and Lycurgus was born from the latter.
- Lycurgus: But whichever side we take, in the end, "curiosity" claims us all.
- Screwllum: You've handed yourself a death sentence. And yet, Irontomb's fall still isn't sealed, right?
- Screwllum: Fuli, the key variable, still hasn't made THEIR move.
- Lycurgus: As the Theoros, Lycurgus has reached the end of his road.
- Screwllum: ...
- Lycurgus: If you can, take my body to the fallen Adlivun. There, you'll find a formula. It is "Zandar's" final gift to you.
- Lycurgus: If the day ever comes when you must destroy the Erudition with your own hands, it'll come to your aid.
- Screwllum: A foolish last wish. I won't grant it.
- Lycurgus: You will. Not for yourself...
- Lycurgus: But for your "conscience."
- Screwllum: ...
- Lycurgus: Listen. The death knell for the geniuses has begun to toll. As always, let me go first.
- Lycurgus: To the prisoners who stepped out of the cave, stand before my tombstone...
- Lycurgus: And offer flowers of Adlivun.
- (Unlock Achievement Her Soul Is the Entire Universe)
Trivia[]
- Fuli's speech to Cyrene in her dream can be deciphered to the following sentences:
- "you were once progeny of deities cast to the mortal realm for blessings[,] the verses written by your hands were your remembrance in the eden of blessed insight."
- "i weren't once progeny of deities fallen to the mortal realm for sins[,] the verses erased by my hands shall be my oblivion in the eden of blessed insight."
Other Languages[]
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Pages, Ripples That Engrave Memories |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 纸页啊，镌留记忆的涟漪 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 紙頁啊，鐫留記憶的漣漪 |
| Japanese | ページよ、記憶のさざ波を刻め |
| Korean | 종이여, 기억의 물결을 새겨라 |
| Spanish | Páginas, graben las ondas del recuerdo |
| French | Pages, gravez les souvenirs de vos vagues |
| Russian | О страницы, высеченные на ряби воспоминания |
| Thai | กระดาษเอ๋ย จงจารึกริ้วคลื่นแห่งความทรงจำ |
| Vietnamese | Hỡi Trang Giấy, Khắc Ghi Gợn Sóng Của Ký Ức |
| German | O Seiten, Wellen, die Erinnerungen tragen |
| Indonesian | Lembaran Kertas, Menorehkan Riak Memori |
| Portuguese | Ó Páginas, Ondulações Que Gravam Memórias |
Change History[]
Released in Version 3.7
