Wanderer, Decipher the Waxen Imprints is the third part of the Trailblaze Mission chapter Before Their Deaths. It automatically begins after completing Sun, Repel Stars and Pale Moon.
Steps[]
- Return to Exomyth and continue your adventure
- Help, Madam Herta!
- Try to seek help through the power of Paths
- Go meet March!
- Leave with March 7th...?
- Expose "March 7th's" disguise
Gameplay Notes[]
- A majority 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 section may be restarted through the Mission menu.
Dialogue[]
Return to Exomyth and continue your adventure[]
Mission DescriptionHere, you'll hear no human voices, see no human shadows. The sun's flickering flames will scorch you, draining the color from your skin. Only when the starlit night shields you from sunlight, or when the Sun rises to melt away the morning frost, will you find relief. These present hardships will torture you forever, and no one can save you.
But you have left behind the fire... the fire that will liberate them. And the fire meant to free you was illuminated long ago.
- (Trailblazer): (This is... the place outside the legend?)
- (Trailblazer): (This doesn't feel the same as before. How should I get back...?)
- Strange Display Monitor: [Locked onto outlier: (Trailblazer)]
- Strange Display Monitor: [Executing command: Isolation]
- (Trailblazer): (Command... isolation?)
- Lygus's Voice: Since we parted ways last time, I have modified the Exomyth into an "audience area" exclusive to you. Now, you'll be able to silently wait here for the final act of Amphoreus to begin.
- Let me out!
- Lygus's Voice: I understand your anger, but I cannot allow you to continuously influence the extrapolation's progress.
- Don't make me hurt you.
- Lygus's Voice: Heh, it seems you have already forgotten... We can't hurt each other in this place.
- I'm the player! Not the audience!
- Lygus's Voice: We always feel so powerless before fate, don't we?
- Lygus's Voice: This could in fact be a wonderful opportunity for you. From the audience's perspective, you may better observe the workings of the Erudition at a macroscopic level.
- Lygus's Voice: In this place, where time flows far slower than within Amphoreus, you will witness... the end of that world's saga.
- What exactly are you after?
- Where time flows... slower than within Amphoreus?
- Lygus's Voice: Indeed. The speed of time here is infinitesimally close to that of the real universe you're familiar with.
- What exactly are you after?
- I'll definitely find a way out of here.
- Lygus's Voice: Oh, I am not doubting your capacity to create miracles.
- What exactly are you after?
- Lygus's Voice: The answer concerning "the prime mover of life," and...
- Lygus's Voice: ...the total destruction of the Erudition.
- You... also hate the Aeons?
- Aren't you an Emanator of Erudition?
- Lygus's Voice: Do you see me as THEIR faithful disciple?
- Lygus's Voice: I am certainly not. I have tried so hard to ensure Irontomb's birth, just so that I can correct the error named "Erudition" that humanity crafted with their own hands.
- Lygus's Voice: How I yearn to return to those days before Nous was born. Back then, the boundaries of knowledge were like the starry skies, evoking feelings of longing and delight among humankind.
- Lygus's Voice: But now... "truth" has become the sacrificial offering required to gain an audience with THEM, and the geniuses would say that Nous already knew.
- Lygus's Voice: That arrogant Aeon was born from the Primum Mobile of humans' desire for knowledge, yet THEY THEMSELF sealed off humanity's capacity to seek enlightenment. I am simply cutting down a tree of doom that we planted ourselves.
- Lygus's Voice: I must admit that the process of answering your questions has... reminded me of the happy days of learning in my youth. However, it is a pity that my true form must now descend into Amphoreus to deal with the "accident" that arose because of you.
- Lygus's Voice: But you won't have to wait long. When the curtain falls, you'll surely understand mine and Amphoreus's ardent wish.
- (Trailblazer): ("Where time flows slower than within Amphoreus..."? If Lygus spoke the truth, then I don't have much time left.)
- (Trailblazer): (But... how can I get out of here?)
- Strange Display Monitor?: Can you hear me... little one?
- (Trailblazer): (Is that... Herta's voice?)
- (Unlock Achievement Prometheus Bound)
Help, Madam Herta![]
- Strange Display Monitor: [Warning. Abnormal data transmission detected...]
- Herta: Hurry up. Put some speed into it! I can't keep this up for much longer.
- (Approach the monitor)
- Herta: That old Intellitron overlooked one little detail, and Screwy and I finally found an opportunity.
- Save me, Madam Herta!
- What's happening outside?
- Herta: Let's keep it short. While you were gone... well, in those few years, Amphoreus...
- Wait. A few years!?
- Herta: Yes. Time dilation, resulting in an uneven flow... Don't you know this already?
- Herta: Let's stick to the main points. The Chrysos Heirs activated the Chronocognitive Anchor and helped Screwllum and me open a hole in the "firewall." We made some adjustments, so he can't attack us immediately, but it won't hold for long...
- Strange Display Monitor: [Abnormal data, locked on. Unauthorized communication, confirmed. Initiating response...]
- Herta: Tch. Time is running out. Here's the conclusion...
- Herta: It'll probably take a long time for Screwy and me to completely break this cage before the Chrysos Heirs have a full grasp of the "Law"...
- Herta: To be safe, we'll continue to launch side-channel attacks on the system to give you opportunities to escape. You need to seize these opportunities. Now, start moving and find a way to pull off a magnificent jailbreak.
- So... how should I do that?
- ...That's all you have to say?
- Herta: We detected... another... Path's... influence...
- Strange Display Monitor: [Communication channel analysis completed. Terminating unauthorized communication...]
- Herta: Its power... is strong... may be able... to help...
- Herta: Use the Path's power... Make it detect you...
- Strange Display Monitor: Unauthorized communication, terminated.
- (Trailblazer): (Is Herta saying... a certain Path's faction has arrived in Amphoreus, and I can ask them for help?)
- (Trailblazer): (I mastered the powers of different Paths in my previous journeys... Think hard, and figure out exactly which faction has arrived at Amphoreus... and which Path's power I should use to call for reinforcements...)
Try to seek help through the power of Paths[]
- (Trailblazer): (Are these... showing my memories?)
- (Investigate the first monitor)
- (Trailblazer): (With a Stellaron in my body, I woke up at the Herta Space Station and gained the power of the Destruction...)
- (Trailblazer): (A world that'll give rise to a Lord Ravager would definitely draw the attention of the Destruction. The Stellaron in my belly is gonna be super useful~)
- (Trailblazer): (...But what if I end up pulling in the Antimatter Legion or the Annihilation Gang? Can they really help?)
- Focus and resonate with the Destruction.
- Nanook! Lend me flames hot enough to burn through this jail!
- You focus your mind, trying to sync your heartbeat's rhythm with the frequency of that dancing golden flame...
- You're walking the line between sanity and madness, carefully steering the course of your consciousness, gently knocking on the door of Destruction...
- ...you gave up. The beckoning of the chaos was too tempting, and your current power level wasn't enough to fully resist it. If you were to fall into the black abyss of Destruction at this moment... perhaps everything would be lost to the void.
- (Trailblazer): (Failure is not necessarily a bad thing... This power wasn't gonna call up anyone nice, after all...)
- (Investigate the second monitor)
- (Trailblazer): (I obtained the flaming lance left by the Architects and gained the power of the Preservation in Belobog...)
- (Trailblazer): (That's right! No matter how far away a planet is, the IPC is guaranteed to pay attention as long as there's a business opportunity. Isn't Amphoreus a pristine and untapped market?)
- (Trailblazer): (Besides, even if I can't call up my friends from the IPC, the Architects and the nomadic miners should be able to help too. There are definitely cities and ores in this world.)
- Focus and resonate with the Preservation.
- Qlipoth! Lend me hammers hard enough to smash through this jail!
- You focus intently, trying to mimic the Qlipoth's wall-building hammer strikes with your heartbeat...
- Once again — you just need to recapture that feeling from your battle with the Supreme Guardian, and catch the sparks from that hammer strike with your own hands...
- ...but nothing happened! Qlipoth ignored you, just as THEY had ignored countless devotees who looked up to THEM throughout the ages.
- (Trailblazer): (Seems like since Amphoreus has no overseas market, the IPC's hand can't reach it...)
- (Investigate the third monitor)
- (Trailblazer): (I received the Watchmaker's hat in Penacony and declared war against the Order, then gained the power of the Harmony...)
- (Trailblazer): (That's right! The benevolent Family must still remember me for saving them! Their music echoes throughout the stars, and they'll definitely want to help.)
- (Trailblazer): (Come, dear hat! I've put you aside for quite a few chapters already! Sing with Clockie: The world is in harmony and the stars shine bright...)
- Focus and resonate with the Harmony.
- Xipe! Use your song to guide me out of here!
- You focus your mind, trying to hum the Ode to Harmony in your thoughts...
- The visages of past Nameless appear one by one. If you blend into their faraway song, perhaps a path will appear before you...
- ...you failed. The barrier of the "Exomyth" strangled those distant melodies, filtering them out completely like useless noise, leaving only cold silence.
- (Trailblazer): (Doesn't Lygus want this story to have background music? He has such terrible taste...)
- (Investigate the fourth monitor)
- (Trailblazer): (The Remembrance...)
- (Trailblazer): (That's right... I came to Amphoreus because Black Swan asked us to come, and I even got a glance from Fuli here. The Garden of Recollection must be intricately involved with Amphoreus...)
- (Trailblazer): (Traces of the Remembrance are also everywhere in this world. I don't know what they want, but I don't have many choices left in this crisis...)
- Fuli, answer me!
- Trust me—
- You invoke the power of Remembrance, awaiting the resonance of reinforcements...
- After the power of Remembrance flows through, something that should not exist here materializes before your eyes...
- ???: ...
- ???: I finally... found you... following the sound of memories... A pathstrider walking both the Remembrance and the Trailblaze...
- Is this... a messenger of Oronyx?
- Wait... this sounds like...
- Their soft whisper is like a warm hand that takes up your soul and slowly disperses it beyond this realm...
- Strange Display Monitor: [Warning! Unauthorized access detected... Cannot lock onto signal source...]
- ???: Teehee... Erudition's prison cannot stop us, for we lie outside the logic of zeros and ones...
- ???: Come... Leave the cage of logos...
- ???: The mythos of Amphoreus... waits for you to continue its story...
- ???: "When that brightest star, that star heralding the dawn, finally rises..."
- ???: "A boat, so used to drifting, at long last enters an island's safe embrace."
- ???: O Pathstrider... We have helped you break free...
- ???: Hurry and set off... The child of Remembrance... awaits you...
Go meet March![]
- Step DescriptionLook, the "Clockkeeper" is here with your temporal pardon. But this bail comes with interest.
The seconds, minutes, and years of your absence will be foreclosed upon, forever beyond withdrawal.
The only way out if forward, where each new moment you create becomes the currency to settle what you've borrowed from time's unforgiving bank.
- (Trailblazer): (March? What's she doing here!?)
- (Interact with the jellyfish, optional)
- Monitor
- A strange being unlike anything you've seen before... Through its translucent body, you seem to catch many familiar fleeting shadows...
- (Approach March 7th)
- March 7th: Ah. You're finally here...
- March 7th: We haven't seen each other for such a long, long time...
- March 7th: (Trailblazer)... I've really, really missed you!
- March! I've really missed you too!
- March 7th: Hehe, I bet you were constantly thinking about the days when I was by your side!
- March 7th, back alive and kicking!
- March 7th: Huh? When was I dead?
- I'm sorry... I never found the time to go see you.
- March 7th: Don't be so sad. Aren't we seeing each other right now?
- March 7th: It's been so boring, waiting for you in this place! There's no one to chat with, no internet, and not even anything to eat or drink. It's basically a prison!
- March 7th: Now the great hero (Trailblazer) is finally here to save me! Yippee!
- March 7th: You must have seen a lot in Amphoreus during this time, right? You gotta tell me all about it.
- It's been a long and arduous journey...
- March 7th: Then take your time with the storytelling! Or do you not want to talk to me?
- Are you doing better now?
- March 7th: I'm all good. Look at how fit and active I am!
- March 7th: But let's get out of this spooky place first. This is not a good spot for a reunion chat.
- March 7th: Why don't you take me back to reality! A strange voice told me that I can enter Amphoreus if I keep following this road...
- March 7th: So, let's head off! I still don't know what that world even looks like~
- (Trailblazer): ...
- (Trailblazer): (Why... does March feel so weird?)
- March 7th: What are you standing around for? Do you actually like this place? Get moving!
Leave with March 7th...?[]
- March 7th: Hurry! This door should be the exit.
- (Trailblazer): (Maybe my instincts are wrong... Let's follow her first.)
- (Approach the door)
- March 7th: ...Are you okay? You haven't said anything for a while.
- March 7th: Has it been so long that you're still missing me? There's no time to waste, though. The Chrysos Heirs and the geniuses are all waiting for you.
- (Trailblazer): (No... The discrepancy is getting worse...)
- How do you know who's waiting for us?
- March 7th: Huh? Isn't Amphoreus the world of the Chrysos Heirs and their Hero's Journey? I could figure that out in an instant.
- (Trailblazer): (But Amphoreus cannot be observed from the outside. She couldn't possibly know about these things unless Dan Heng told her...)
- Where's Dan Heng? He should be back on the Express now.
- Where's Dan Heng? He should be back on the Express now.
- March 7th: Hmm? No, he's not. Maybe I just happened to miss him?
- March 7th: Never mind. Dan Heng's super reliable. We don't need to worry about him. He's probably waiting for us somewhere, all hale and hearty.
- (Trailblazer): (No. The geniuses would have made sure that Dan Heng made it back on the Express. Besides, the March I know wouldn't be so dismissive about her companions...)
- (Trailblazer): (...Something's not right. She's not March 7th.)
- March 7th: ...I guess you have something you want to say to me, (Trailblazer).
- March 7th: Then there's no need to feel things out first with questions. Let's treasure the time we have together and be frank.
- Who... are you?
- March 7th?: ...
Expose "March 7th's" disguise[]
- March 7th?: As expected, a glimpse of memory is not enough to deceive the bonds of friendship forged between the Nameless.
- March 7th!: In that case, there's no need for further deceit. You're right. We're not the "March 7th" you are acquainted with.
- March 7th...: But we can send you back to Amphoreus... As long as you are willing to help us...
- Who are you people?
- March 7th!: We are the Garden of Recollection. You should be very familiar with that name by now.
- Habitual liars are not trustworthy.
- March 7th!: We'll introduce ourselves to gain your trust. We are the Garden of Recollection. You should be very familiar with that name by now.
- What did you people do with March 7th?
- March 7th!: She's fine. This form was simply borrowed from your "memories."
- March 7th!: We'll introduce ourselves to gain your trust. We are the Garden of Recollection. You should be very familiar with that name by now.
- March 7th?: Just as a reminder: While you hesitate, time is quickly ticking away in Amphoreus.
- March 7th?: Working with us is the best way to stop the enemy of Erudition.
- March 7th!: Erudition would treat any results unrelated to the experiment as garbage and throw them out, but we don't work like that.
- March 7th?: The Remembrance treats all these instances as important materials needed to weave the universe.
- March 7th...: Besides, this would be child's play for a great hero like you. It won't be hard at all...
- March 7th...: Also, if your plan fails and the big bad Irontomb manages to get out, then the whole cosmos will be in danger.
- March 7th!: Wouldn't it be better to have an additional failsafe? As long as you help the Garden retrieve what we want, even if Irontomb reformats everything in the physical plane, we can use Remembrance to reconstruct the entire world... or, should we say, the entire universe.
- March 7th?: So, help us. Find where Amphoreus's "memory" began... and bring it out.
- March 7th?: The Master of Anāsrava has already glanced at you. Don't deny it. That "storybook" is the best evidence.
- ???: Say... You aren't seriously gonna be moved by their pretty words, are you?♭
- ???: I am the one who commanded those little ones to lead you out of the prison.
- ???: But I didn't expect to attract little gnats trying to take advantage of the situation...
- ???: While Remembrance can help you return to Amphoreus, there's no need for you to do it the way they want you to. Of course, there's also no need for you to make any deal... or pay any price.
- ???: For you, this is probably a "long time no see"...
- ???: ...My dear (Trailblazer)♭
- Who... are... you?
- Another illusion? I won't be tricked again...
- ???: Shh. There's no need to say anything. I know. You have so many questions swirling around in your memories at this moment, and you feel so helpless. Put them aside. For now, all you need to do... is trust me.
- ???: Or... do you need more proof? That won't be hard...
- Voice of Memory: ...Stop it! They're awake! I'm gonna keep our first photo, alright? No! That end won't come to pass while we're around!
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- Voice of Memory: ...Aaaand now I'm Luocha~ The statue... is that... ...Dan Heng's brother!? Azure Dragon, White Tiger, eating less carbs...
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- Voice of Memory: ...Did you hear that! She just called me "my lovely lady"...! Help me become a high-ranking member. Even if the future is full of pain... we won't escape from it!
- Voice of Memory: Hey, are you sure? Maybe a couple of punches will help to jog your memory?
- (Trailblazer): ...
- ???: It's as if they all happened just yesterday, right?
- ???: I don't want to lie to you, which is why I will not use "her" name.
- "Evernight": The third month of Amphoreus is the month reserved for the Veil of Evernight... So, place me into your memory using the name "Evernight" for now ♭
- "Evernight"... But who—?
- "Evernight": I'm happy to explain more, just not now. We might have a lot of time to ourselves, but Amphoreus does not have that luxury.
- "Evernight": If we do not stop Erudition and Destruction, then the journey you've treasured so much will face the prelude to its obliteration, a countdown not in Amber Eras, but in days, minutes... seconds.
- "Evernight": So, take this gift...
- "Evernight": This burning Coreflame. This footnote of a transaction. It contains hope... and the warmth of the entire world.
- "Evernight": "Ripples of past reverie"... She hid this fire in the long river of "Time," hoping that her wishes would transcend time to reach your hands in the future.
- "Evernight": Now, take it, and return with it, dear (Trailblazer). Return to Amphoreus and overturn the final Era Nova.
- "Evernight": Witness the time that stood still for the Deliverer, and the resistance that never bowed to the destiny of Destruction over the long years that passed in a flash.
- "Evernight": Then, with this Coreflame blessed by the Remembrance, respond to their hopes and blaze a trail to the future.
- "Evernight": And I will silently watch in a corner of time, waiting for our next encounter...
- "Evernight": I believe the wait won't be too long.
- (Trailblazer): (What exactly... is happening...)
- "Evernight": (Trailblazer)... Keep going... Keep trailblazing...
- "Evernight": For Amphoreus, for you, and for the "March 7th" in your memories...
- "Evernight": Go forth ♭
- Let's hope it's not too late — onward we go.
- Amphoreus needs the "Deliverer."
- I trust in March... even if she no longer looks the same.
Trivia[]
- In the Exomyth, Lygus can be heard sighing in the background at fixed intervals during the "Try to seek help through the power of Paths" step.
Other Languages[]
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Wanderer, Decipher the Waxen Imprints |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 游子啊，审谛蜡板的印痕 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 遊子啊，審諦蠟板的印痕 |
| Japanese | 旅人よ、蝋の印影に目を凝らせ |
| Korean | 나그네여, 밀랍판의 흔적을 살펴봐다오 |
| Spanish | (Viajero/ |
| French | Vagabond, déchiffre les empreintes de cire |
| Russian | О странник, изучи отпечатки на восковой дощечке |
| Thai | ผู้เดินทางเอ๋ย จงพินิจรอยประทับบนแผ่นขี้ผึ้ง |
| Vietnamese | Hỡi Người Lưu Lạc, Hãy Nhìn Những Dấu Hằn Xưa Trên Bảng Sáp |
| German | O Wanderer, entziffere die wächsernen Spuren |
| Indonesian | Pengembara, Tafsirkan Jejak di atas Papan Lilin |
| Portuguese | Ó Errante, Decifra os Selos de Cera |
Change History[]
Released in Version 3.5
