A Superhero Caught in a Moral Dilemma
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A Superhero Caught in a Moral Dilemma is the third part of the Trailblaze Mission chapter So Laughed the Masses. It automatically begins after completing In the Shadow of the Millennium.
Steps
- Discuss the next plan
- Take the Bullet Wyrm Express to Seafeld City
- Go to Seafeld City and continue the adventure
- Go see what the crowd up ahead is protesting about
- Check out the surroundings
- (Optional) Accept the TV interview
- (Optional) Talk to the passionate shopowner
- Retrieve the sacred vessel of "Executive Ruling"
- Play the melody and dispel the mist
- Step onto the floating isle and retrieve the ruler blade
Gameplay Notes
- This mission uses the Fate's Ensemble system, played from the perspective of Evanescia. The game provides her for use as a Story character.
Dialogue
Discuss the next plan
Mission DescriptionI've witnessed countless unforgettable tales, countless twists and turns of fate. Those "heroes," those "Supplicants," contributed so many spectacular performances to this game.
They take their curtain call, then step back onto the stage...
Such stories have repeated themselves a thousand times over, ever since the very first, all for the sake of this "arcadia."
I've never grown weary: deconstructing, arranging, combining... you, always so similar, yet creating stories that are utterly different.
I await your performance in this game.
And so, whether it be this "Phantasmoon Games" or this "arcadia," it needs the right guidance.
- Sequence 01Evanescia showed Yao Guang her Supplicant's mask, saying that for someone in her role as an arbitrator, this was unprecedented, and that whoever had caused it remained unknown. Yao Guang proposed that they work together in the Phantasmoon Games to track down the culprit and asked her to release the crow in the secret courtyard, through which Sunday then sent information about Fulwish and suggested that the two of them head to Seafeld City.
- Not long before, in the Phantasmoon Courtyard...
- Yao Guang: You just said: "As for the brewing storm... Whether the turmoil once again is the result of The Laughter's mischief" ...What exactly was that supposed to mean?
- Yao Guang: You mean to say the Joyseeker wants to destroy the very rules THEY laid down, the game THEY wove with THEIR own hand?
- Evanescia: Come over here.
- Evanescia: This fox mask is a ritual instrument I once used in dance and music. It accompanied me across vast distances in search of an elixir of immortality, a mark of who I was in life.
- Evanescia: I've lost count of how long it has been since I last wore it since being enlightened and transplanted here. But here it is, presented upon the altar again. Which means...
- Yao Guang: As the game's referee, you've been pushed onto the field. In this moment, you are now a Supplicant.
- Evanescia: For over a century, I presided over a war game in which Supplicants carved out their own territories and vied for supremacy using the power of the Masks.
- Evanescia: I've also hosted survival games where Emanators took the stage to compete, invoking Aeonic powers to try and slaughter every last opponent in a single day.
- Evanescia: Whenever the Phantasmoon Games are at risk of being suspended or disrupted, I will use the authority granted by the Elation and the Abundance to measure, judge, and punish any violators.
- Evanescia: I guess you could call me the "security protocol" for the Phantasmoon Games. But now, someone has gone and designated me as a "Supplicant"... It's utterly unheard of.
- Evanescia: Who else but The Laughter could pull off something like this?
- Yao Guang: Perhaps...
- Yao Guang: ...Some entity harboring a deep-seated hatred for The Laughter?
- Evanescia: Who could it be? Ugh, entities like that... I couldn't count them all even if I used my toes.
- Evanescia: I warned that jerk ages ago: take a joke too far, and you're bound to make enemies. See? Instant karma!
- Yao Guang: Never mind who he is or what he's after. We're here now, so what do you plan on doing?
- Yao Guang: "Fortune rests upon misfortune, and misfortune gives rise to fortune." Becoming a Supplicant isn't necessarily a bad thing. Wouldn't that allow you to step openly into this chaos and drag the puppet master into the light?
- Evanescia: You're looking to team up, with me? Team up with someone from the "Abominations of Abundance" that you Xianzhou people despise?
- Yao Guang: That's hardly appropriate. You're an ancient, sacred tree. It's the furthest thing from an Abomination of Abundance, no?
- Evanescia: Oh? Your standards are certainly flexible. The Hunt and the Abundance... We really make quite the interesting pair.
- Evanescia: So, where do you plan on starting?
- Yao Guang: How about we start by freeing my friend in the tree?
- Evanescia: Ah, I nearly forgot about that. Chirp away, little bird. I'll allow it.
- Sunday: General Yao Guang, and... Miss Fox. I've received some news that might interest you.
- Within moments, the bird transmits the invitation of the Fulwish Supplicant, along with intel regarding the "Happiness Surgery," directly into both their minds.
- Yao Guang: A Happiness Surgery that wipes away suffering? The power of Abundance in this world is disgustingly excessive.
- Yao Guang: It seems the most terrifying omen I foresaw may not originate from the Stellaron Hunters, nor from Planarcadia itself. This Supplicant called Fulwish is also a dangerous variable.
- Sunday: If you can, I would ask that you direct your focus toward... Seafeld City.
- Evanescia: You want to take a trip to Seafeld City? ...It seems I'll have to use some special measures to shorten the journey.
- Yao Guang: Oh? This is the part I've been looking forward to the most. I've always been curious, where exactly this secret court is located, and what it connects to—
- Evanescia: Xianzhou lady, let me show you this world's most impressive method of travel.
Take the Bullet Wyrm Express to Seafeld City
- Sequence 02Evanescia brought Yao Guang to the station, hoping to show her an "impressive method of travel," but in the end, as an arbitrator of the Phantasmoon Games and a Xianzhou General, neither of them had a more stylish way of getting around.
- Evanescia: Here we are.
- Yao Guang: Already? Wait, why are we at the station?
- Evanescia: Because naturally we're taking the Express to get where we're going.
- Yao Guang: All that buildup, and this is your idea of an "impressive method of travel"!?
- Evanescia: Well, what else? That's why I said "you've definitely never seen this before." It's the Bullet Wyrm Express! I bet you've never taken a ride on this!
- Yao Guang: You're the arbitrator of the Phantasmoon Games, for crying out loud. Don't you have a cooler way of getting around?
- Evanescia: You're a great General of the Xianzhou, for crying out loud. Don't you have a cooler way to get around?
- Yao Guang: Fine, fine. For the first time in my life, I finally know what it feels like to be the fool.
- Meowton Station Manager: The train bound for Seafeld City is arriving at the station.
- Evanescia: Hey, you got any money on you? Spot me a ticket, would ya?
- Yao Guang: ...
- Yao Guang: That's the second time.
- (Unlock Achievement Scenic Route to Work)
Go to Seafeld City and continue the adventure
- Evanescia: ~♪♪[Note 1]
- Sequence 03On their journey to Seafeld, Yao Guang polished her mind's eye, preparing for the divination so that nothing would cloud its judgment. Evanescia urged her to cherish the present, warning that an infinite lifespan could easily become prolonged suffering.
- (Go to Seafeld City)
- Evanescia: You haven't said a word the whole way, Xianzhou diviner. Are you mesmerized by the scenery... or is there something in your divinations weighing on your mind?
- Yao Guang: After casting divinations a thousand times, one may learn to keep a still heart, yet each foreseen omen of doom still clouds the inner lake with gathering shadows.
- Yao Guang: That is why before divining, I usually wipe clean my mind's eye to clear away stray thoughts, lest the outcome be disturbed.
- Evanescia: Take a word of advice from someone slightly your senior, maybe it's nothing new to you: if we treat every approaching calamity like a final reckoning, wouldn't an infinite lifespan turn into prolonged suffering?
- Yao Guang: Enjoy the present... Indeed. Yet, worldly joys are fleeting as morning dew, while our duties are as immovable as heavy mountains.
- Evanescia: Diviners often miss the fun right in front of them because they foresee tomorrow's suffering. But have you ever thought about this? That so-called suffering of tomorrow... might just be the poisonous fruit sown by you being terrified today?
- Evanescia: It is precisely because we know the ending that every scene along the way is so precious and unique, isn't it?
- Evanescia: Look at this harbor before us. When I first set foot here, all these streets, the fishing boats, the people... none of them existed.
- Evanescia: As far as the eye could see... there was only fire.
- Evanescia: The seas had been vaporized, leaving only fractured seabeds and ash that blotted out the sun. The demonic legions from beyond still hadn't departed, and the waves that would surge into Dovebrook had, in that moment, not yet arrived.
- Evanescia: Just on the mountain over there, a painter and I looked out at the iron-red scars on the earth. She told me, "That which vanishes is bound to return." She swore to use her brush to preserve everything claimed by the Destruction.
- Yao Guang: It seems she succeeded.
- Evanescia: And so, I too shall keep my promise to her, maintaining the course of the Phantasmoon Games until the sands of time slip away.
- Evanescia: With every descent into this game's cycles, I shall enjoy myself to the fullest. Like sipping tea, be it sweet or bitter, I shall savor the flavor of every instant. To do otherwise would be a disservice to the people and things that have passed.
- Yao Guang: To savor a fleeting moment against the backdrop of eternity... naturally, the flavor is profound. A pity, though. Even as a long-life species, my time is brief compared to yours. As a Xianzhou native, the karma I carry is far too heavy. I could never learn how to be as... carefree as you.
- Yao Guang: Miss Evanescia, what to you is a game to be savored... is a life-and-death reality for the living beings of Planarcadia.
- Evanescia: Alright then. Next up, I'm entering "brooding and edgy" serious mode.
- Yao Guang: That... won't be necessary.
- Yao Guang: I shall use the "Eye of Īśvara" to divine the fates of the people in Seafeld City. If they face imminent catastrophe, a red Fate Slip will be hanging above their heads.
- Yao Guang: The Reignbow surveys the heavens, perceiving a thousand forms. Across the meridians of destiny, the jade abacus reveals its script. The celestial eye opens and shuts, as calamity and fortune reveal themselves—
- Yao Guang: Calamity looms overhead... The crimson slip is cast!
- Yao Guang: Mr. Sunday will share my "insight" with you through the spirit bird, Miss Evanescia. Please bear witness.
- Evanescia: Is that their fate hanging over their heads?
- Yao Guang: Precisely. Come on, let's take a closer look.
Go see what the crowd up ahead is protesting about
- Step DescriptionThe people of Seafeld City are boycotting the Express Crew?
And here I thought Fluffy Across the Blue was such a huge hit...
Kids these days just don't have the patience for good stories like we did.
And they still have the nerve to call themselves die-hard fans of the Express Crew?
- (Go over the bridge)
- Yao Guang: Odd. Why do these people have weal slips hanging over their heads?
- Sequence 04The citizens of Seafeld City protested the Astral Express, asserting that the visitors from beyond the sky could not understand the happiness of the locals, and insisting that the Express be removed from Planarcadia.
- (Approach the crowd)
- Protesting Local: Astral Express, boo! Get out of Seafeld City! Astral Express, boo! Get out of Planarcadia!
- Protesting Local: Good afternoon! Would you two lovely young ladies care to join us in protest for the bright future of Seafeld City?
- Evanescia: Hey Pops, you guys are grinning like it's a holiday festival, but your slogans sound so fierce. Doesn't that feel a bit... weird?
- Protesting Local: Haha! We Seafeld folk pride ourselves on our manners. Even when expressing dissatisfaction, we do it with a smile. Now that's real "happiness etiquette"!
- Protesting Local: We won't let anyone ruin this serenity! Come on ma'am, wave a flag with us, you'll feel better in no time!
- Yao Guang: Their emotions are so synchronized, it's like they rehearsed it... This kind of happiness feels like some compulsory routine.
- Evanescia: Mmm, their smiles send shivers down my spine.
- Evanescia: Hey, wasn't it your Director Fulwish who invited the Astral Express crew here to debate? Shooing your guests away like this is hardly polite.
- Protesting Local: You— You're from the Astral Express, aren't you!
- Evanescia: Hey! So... do I really look that much like a Nameless!? It's not like I have a boarding pass stuck to my face!
- Yao Guang: You... What are you so happy about?
- Protesting Local: Just look at you, dyeing your hair like that at such a young age instead of doing something decent with yourself. You're no better than that bunny on the Astral Express! Anyone could tell you're not from around here!
- Evanescia: Hey jerk, it's not dyed! And for the record, March Bunny is adorable! Wait, what happened to all those "Happy Smiles" on your faces before? How did you flip the switch so fast!?
- Protesting Local: You people from beyond the sky... you just don't understand our happiness. If you keep causing trouble, don't blame us if we get nasty!
- Yao Guang: My apologies. My little sister is young and doesn't know better. We'll be on our way.
- Protesting Local: Who are you kidding!? Sisters? You two aren't even the same species!
- Protesting Local: Cause any more trouble, and I'll call a whole boatload of ploos to toss you both into the sea as fish food!
Check out the surroundings
- Step DescriptionMembers of the "Smiles Society" give off this weird vibe that feels like mine, but not at all the same...
Huh? You want me to describe it?
Like... flowers and hope, romance and ideals... that sort of dreamy scent?
- (Talk to Protesting Local again, optional)
- Protesting Local: Cause any more trouble, and I'll call a whole boatload of ploos to toss you both into the sea as fish food!
- Step DescriptionCamera, lens, flash...! Yep, a gorgeous girl like me just has to show up on screen and everyone lights up with a smile.
- Sequence 05In Seafeld, Evanescia and Yao Guang faced street reporters who pressed them with manipulative questions — meant to cast the Astral Express and the Pearluxe Corp in a negative light, while guiding them toward praising Fulwish.
- (Talk to Reporter, optional)
- Reporter: The sun is shining, and the vibes are immaculate! This is Fulwish TV's Happiness on the Street, bringing you real smiles straight from the streets of Seafeld!
- Reporter: You two look like visitors from afar. I take it you're also following Planarcadia's grand event, the Phantasmoon Games?
- Evanescia: Of course we're following it. It's not every day you see something this lively.
- Reporter: That's great. We've noted many echoing widespread concerns that the Astral Express's intervention is dragging our sacred Phantasmoon Games into a quagmire of competition with outsiders. What are your thoughts on this?
- Evanescia: Widespread concerns? Mr. Reporter, I suspect your question already comes neatly packaged with its own answer.
- Yao Guang: Judging motives is futile. What we want to be focusing on is the real life consequences of our actions.
- Reporter: That's so deep!
- Reporter: Many Seafelders feel that rather than any IPC vision of prosperity, it's the "Healing Smiles; Healing Arcadias" proposed by Lady Fulwish that is the more grounded future we desperately need! What is your take on this?
- Yao Guang: If the Happiness comes at the cost of stripping away the perception of all pain, then it calls into scrutiny just how authentic such a happiness really is.
- Evanescia: Exactly. By that logic, eating candy until your teeth fall out counts as happiness too, right? I mean, hey, at least it tasted sweet.
- Reporter: That's a very... vivid analogy. Finally, a hypothetical question: If you had to choose, do you believe the Preservation defined by outsiders or the Happiness advocated by Ms. Fulwish better represents the future of Planarcadia?
- Yao Guang: The real future has never existed within such a narrow dichotomy. Now, if you'll excuse me.
- Reporter: Thank you both for sharing! Have a wonderful day!
- Reporter: ...All defensive answers. Not a single morsel for us. This whole segment is wasted. Go find some citizens who can chuck us a few Happiness testimonials to pad out the reel.
- Yao Guang: A Weal slip. This one's a lucky weal, too.
- Evanescia: Isn't that a good thing?
- (Talk to Reporter again, optional)
- Reporter: ...All defensive answers. Not a single morsel for us. This whole segment is wasted. Go find some citizens who can chuck us a few Happiness testimonials to pad out the reel.
- Step Description"Happiness Soda," huh? Feels kinda sketchy...
Could it be related to the "Smiles Society"?
- Sequence 06While showing Evanescia and Yao Guang the "Happiness Soda," the shopkeeper extolled Fulwish as Seafeld City's pride and noted that both the city's economic growth and the well-being of its citizens were all thanks to Fulwish and the Research Society of Happy Smiles.
- (Talk to Friendly Shopkeeper, optional)
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Welcome! Come try our Happiness Soda! One sip, and you'll be as lucky as Director Fulwish all day long!
- Evanescia: Why is it always Fulwish...? Doesn't she work in media? What's that got to do with soda?
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Oh, you're an outsider, you wouldn't know! Director Fulwish is Seafeld City's pride and joy! She grew up just a street over. She's a true "Daughter of Seafeld"!
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Can you imagine? After that terrible disaster fifteen years ago... *sigh* That child lost her whole family. Just a little kid... Truly heartbreaking...
- Friendly Shopkeeper: But she did herself proud. She pulled herself through it all, relying on sheer grit and optimism!
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Fulwish TV — ah, back then it was still called Seafeld TV — even produced a special documentary about her called A Smile Against Adversity. I can't even tell you how many people were touched by it!
- Friendly Shopkeeper: And now despite all her success, she hasn't forgotten to bring happiness to everyone. It's just amazing!
- Yao Guang: Do you... really feel happy right now?
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Of course! Just look at how happy I am! It's all thanks to the Research Society of Happy Smiles and Miss Fulwish! She not only supports the local economy, but she's brought with her a positive attitude toward life.
- Friendly Shopkeeper: We can all be just like her, forget about all those painful memories from the past, and just be happy every single day!
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Well, If you ask me, only someone who's come from suffering like her can truly want what's best for all of us! She's the one who can deal with those outsider Supplicants running amok, and bring glory to our people!
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Come on, why don't you try some! It's on the house! You simply have to experience the unique taste of "Happiness" that we have here in Seafeld! Guaranteed to make you forget all your troubles!
- Evanescia: This Fulwish really is something else.
- Yao Guang: And this... is also a weal.
- (Talk to Friendly Shopkeeper again, optional)
- Friendly Shopkeeper: Come on, why don't you try some! It's on the house! You simply have to experience the unique taste of "Happiness" that we have here in Seafeld! Guaranteed to make you forget all your troubles!
- Sequence 07Yao Guang's divination revealed that every pedestrian in Seafeld City bore a Weal slip above their heads. As Evanescia felt the power of the Abundance coursing through them, she realized that she must deliver judgment on Fulwish, the Supplicant who had recklessly dispensed "blessings."
- (Approach mission target)
- Smiles Society Publicist: Bid farewell to painful memories and embrace the eternal now! Let the smile of happiness become your only truth!
- Smiles Society Publicist: Follow Master Fulwish's path, embrace rebirth, and you and I can both become the happiest people in this arcadia!
- Yao Guang: ...How very strange.
- Yao Guang: No matter how many times I perform the divination, the signs hovering above the passersby in Seafeld City are all Weals, signifying peace.
- Yao Guang: ...Is my "Eye of Īśvara" suffering interference from a Supplicant's abilities here? But... how is that possible?
- Evanescia: I actually think your judgment is looking more and more likely. The pedestrians on the roadside, the fishermen at the port, the shopkeepers on the street, and... the ones preaching "Happiness"...
- Evanescia: From the moment I entered this port city, I felt it, something stirring gently within them, resonating with the same essence I carry.
- Evanescia: This entity is far too faint, I can scarcely feel its strength. It was once shattered to nothing, crushed into powder, burned down to ash... nearly extinguished.
- Evanescia: But it has no concept of death, and so it simply went to sleep. It quietly lurks, waiting for the farmer to scatter it across the fields. Given time, it will inevitably wake up again.
- Yao Guang: I believe most people in this city must have undergone the Happiness Surgery, just look at the spectacle the Smiles Society is putting on over there.
- Evanescia: At the Courtyard, you once said, "Fortune rests upon misfortune"...
- Yao Guang: A great calamity for some, but for others, perhaps a turning point leading to ultimate bliss.
- Yao Guang: If there really is something that lets people survive apocalyptic disaster... then a Weal slip hanging above their heads would be only fitting.
- Yao Guang: ...However, those who survive will no longer be human.
- Evanescia: By that time, there won't be any need for a General of the Xianzhou to petition an audience... The gaze of The Hunt will be firmly locked on this place!
- Evanescia: Follow me.
- Yao Guang: What's your plan?
- Evanescia: My plan? As the referee of the Phantasmoon Games... uh, former referee I mean! When faced with a Supplicant who blatantly breaks the rules and dispenses "blessings" on a whim...
- Evanescia: The only thing I can do is... issue an "Executive Ruling."
- Yao Guang: So, this so-called ruling... Does it involve summoning a bolt of lightning from the sky to just zap Fulwish dead out of nowhere?
- Evanescia: It's nothing so violent. For my judgment, I must first retrieve the sacred instrument...
- Evanescia: Only by using it to measure the Supplicant's crimes can we sever her power. It's like... a gardener pruning overgrown branches.
Retrieve the sacred vessel of "Executive Ruling"
- Step DescriptionThat's right. A mysterious character like me naturally has an exclusive "hidden item."
Now, it's time to go retrieve "it."
- (Go up the stairs)
- Evanescia: We're almost there.
- Sequence 08Evanescia's sacred vessel is kept on a floating island concealed by heavy fog and woods. Whenever Evanescia plays her music, the fog disperses.
- (Approach mission target)
- Yao Guang: Is this it? You keep the sacred instrument out here in broad daylight? Aren't you worried someone might make it disappear?
- Evanescia: Hold your horses. We've still got a ways to go. As for my precious measuring instrument, do you really think I'd just leave it lying around in the middle of nowhere?
- Yao Guang: With all due respect, there is no path ahead.
- Yao Guang: I get it. It's probably just an optical illusion. Extraordinary beings like you always love pulling that "the path only opens to the destined" trick. What's next? A secret passphrase? Do I find a stone matrix and jump through it? Or maybe...
- Yao Guang: Do you sing a little song, wave your hand, and the trees just obediently stand up and split into two neat rows?
- Evanescia: I'm no Woof Woof Dan... I don't have that kind of skill.
- Evanescia: A long time ago, I raised a floating island right here for someone to paint.
- Evanescia: To prevent others from wandering in by mistake, I asked that artist to paint thick fog and woodland here, so passersby wouldn't stray inside.
- Evanescia: We made a deal: As long as I play my song, the fog will disperse.
Play the melody and dispel the mist
- Step DescriptionWork hard and stay focused, then good fortune will come naturally.
Hoot, I still can't do it?
Once I'm done with this, I'm gonna lock myself inside and binge Fluffy Across the Blue for a whole week!
- (Enter Interplanar Jump!)
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Two special types of wispae that exist in "Interplanar Jump!" will be attracted to the Trailblazemon and gradually move closer to it, but they possess no offensive capabilities. Additionally, when they spot a HelpBot, they will immediately shift their attention and move toward the HelpBot instead.
Two special types of wispae that exist in "Interplanar Jump!" will be attracted to the Trailblazemon and gradually move closer to it, but they possess no offensive capabilities. Additionally, when they spot a HelpBot, they will immediately shift their attention and move toward the HelpBot instead.- Yao Guang: That's a cute puppy. Looks like it's taken a liking to you.
- (Activate lever)
- Evanescia: I'll just borrow this cutie's head for a sec.
- (Jump up with the trampoline)
- Evanescia: Here we are.
- Didn't expect this instrument to have such a childlike charm.
- Hmm... I remember the music score being
↖↑←↖↓↙→↘.
- (If the wrong Bizarre Melody is played)
- Hey, don't tell me you're tone-deaf?
- (Play the Bizarre Melody)
- (Unlock Achievement Orpheus' Lyre)
- (Exit Interplanar Jump!)
Step onto the floating isle and retrieve the ruler blade
- Step Description"Stream forth... the gleam of old blades..."
Oops, my bad! I was just trying to quote a classic line from Volume 3 of Fluffy Across the Blue.
This really is just an ordinary ruler, isn't it? Of course it is.
- (Go up the stairs)
- Evanescia: What do you think? It's beautiful, isn't it?
- Yao Guang: Compared to the Yuque's scenery... I suppose it's more natural.
- Evanescia: Would it kill you to pay a compliment?
- Yao Guang: Yes.
Tooltip for 18px|link=ⓘ Sequence 09Evanescia obtained the "Spiritbranch of True Law." However, the "measuring" revealed that Fulwish was not a Supplicant. Instead, behind this mask stood countless Supplicants scattered across Planarcadia, rendering any judgment impossible. Meanwhile, Dan Heng, Blade, and Ashveil arrived on the scene. Blade stated that he had come to slay their mutual enemy. The Abundance cells used in the Happiness Surgery had originated from Shuhu, the Emanator of Abundance. The one wearing the Octomorph Mask was none other than Shuhu, who had been dismembered and was in fact parasitizing the bodies of Planarcadia's surgery recipients.- (Approach mission target)
- Yao Guang: ...
- Evanescia: What are you laughing at?
- Yao Guang: My apologies, I didn't mean to mock. I was merely curious... Is this thing really the "sacred instrument" with which you pass judgment upon Supplicants? Is it really just... a literal ruler?
- Evanescia: Hey, don't underestimate this "Spiritbranch of True Law"! When it first appeared in the form of a blade 150 years ago it could cleave a mountain in half with a single effortless swing!
- Yao Guang: Miss Evanescia, let's keep such fanciful tales between us, shall we...
- Yao Guang: Best not go spreading them around. If any of the Cosmicon Collective players find out, we'll never hear the end of their complaints about how "mountain-busting power levels are for noobs."
- Evanescia: I never expected a high-ranking Xianzhou General to be so well-versed in the gossip here on Planarcadia.
- Yao Guang: Such is the way of a diviner. To enter a place is to observe its local custom.
- Evanescia: Same goes for us arbiters. Times change, and my babies have to change with 'em.
- Evanescia: Just picture it: a pretty girl in a school uniform, strutting through the streets with a giant sword slung over her shoulder? Yeah, right.
- Yao Guang: I see you are a law-abiding citizen, Miss Evanescia. Cute.
- Yao Guang: Now then, please begin your "measuring."
- Evanescia: Weigh and sever this world, and engrave the laws of the cosmos — Spiritbranch of True Law!
- Evanescia: By the scale that adjudicates reality and illusion, truth and falsehood... measure for me all sins beneath the Phantasmoon that transgress the law!
- Evanescia: What... is going on?
- Evanescia: It's telling me... Fulwish is not a Supplicant!
- Evanescia: If she's not a Supplicant, then there's no way to judge whether she's transgressed or not.
- Yao Guang: ...What do you mean?
- Yao Guang: If Fulwish isn't a Supplicant, why would she openly declare that she's joining the Phantasmoon Games? And that mask back at the altar shaped like an Octomorph... Just who does it belong to?
- Evanescia: Behind that mask... countless Supplicants are wearing it. They're spread across all Seaf— No, all of Duomension City too...
- Evanescia: Supplicants... They're everywhere!
- Evanescia: Not in the history of the Phantasmoon Games... have I ever seen a situation like this!
- Sunday: General, someone is approaching your position. It's Dan Heng, and...
- Yao Guang: Dan Heng, you've returned. And the one beside you...
- Yao Guang: Blade... Or perhaps I should call you by your true name, one of the Xianzhou's most wanted criminals: Yingxing.
- Yao Guang: You've delivered yourself into my hands. Good.
- Blade: General of the Yuque... your vision remains confined within the laws of the Xianzhou.
- Dan Heng: ...
- Blade: I came here to kill our common enemy.
- Yao Guang: Our common enemy? You are the Xianzhou's enemy. Ever since you became a Stellaron Hunter, you have slain countless emissaries of judgment sent by the Xuling's Palace of Law to capture you. You even incited the artisans of the Zhuming to reforge your blade, entangling them in your crimes...
- Yao Guang: But your most unforgivable crime... is daring to break into the Ten-Lords Commission restricted area on the Xianzhou Yuque with your accomplices. You destroyed the Ashen Stelewood, disturbed the slumber of our valiant heroes, and stole the secrets of the dead.
- Yao Guang: What kind of "vision" drove you to commit the countless crimes of your past? And what common enemy could possibly stand between you and me? By all means, enlighten me.
- Ashveil: Oh? While I was in seclusion all these years, you've clearly been up to quite a lot.
- Ashveil: If I'd known you were such a magnet for trouble back when you came to the Zhuming begging for a sword, I would've dragged you out of the forge and drafted you into my crew myself, tied up if necessary...
- Yao Guang: And this would be...?
- Ashveil: A pleasure to meet you, General Yao Guang. It's truly touching that my friends on the Xianzhou have kept me in their thoughts for all these years.
- Ashveil: I never change my name, no matter where I roam. I am La Mancha.
- Blade: You're obviously using a fake name.
- Yao Guang: The head of the Galaxy Rangers... I didn't expect this trip to come with such a pleasant surprise.
- Dan Heng: General, I'm afraid old grudges will have to wait—
- Dan Heng: What we need to discuss concerns the survival of this world, and that catastrophic calamity you foresaw in your divination.
- Blade: I won't deny the crimes you've listed.
- Blade: But I know full well that the Xianzhou cares nothing for the life or death of someone guilty like me. What you truly want...
- Blade: ...is to exact a blood debt from the nemesis who has repeatedly awakened demonic stars, summoned abominations, and could not be slain even after a hundred deaths...
- Blade: You wish to subdue the Emanator of the Abundance, Shuhu, once again... and even deny THEM rebirth for all eternity.
- Blade: And now, General, I have brought this opportunity before you.
- Blade: If you are dead set on condemning me to answer for my crimes, I will submit to your judgment and board the Navis Astrigera for the Xuling's inquisition.
- Blade: But as I said, I did not come here today to play the savior. I came to stop the past from repeating itself, and... to prevent our common enemy from having their way.
- Blade: General, if you do not want the fate of the Battle of the Fanghu from thirty years ago to fall at your feet then you must believe what I am about to say—
- Blade: The "Happiness Surgery" promoted by the Smiles Society utilizes none other than Shuhu's cells, cells acquired from an unknown source.
- Yao Guang: You mean... everyone who underwent the surgery...
- Blade: ...have all become Supplicants. Once the Wishpower converges, the will of the flesh will awaken and turn every host into nourishment.
- Yao Guang: The one wearing the Octomorph Mask is not a single person. It is... an Emanator of the Abundance, dismembered and currently parasitizing the bodies of the masses here.
- Yao Guang: Who on earth... could have brought something so terrifying to Planarcadia?
- Switching to Sparxie's POV...
- Meanwhile, Sparxie is at the tavern, chatting it up and enjoying herself...
Notes
- ↑ The song Evanescia hums here is Interstellar Journey.
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | A Superhero Caught in a Moral Dilemma |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 超级英雄的道德困境 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 超級英雄的道德困境 |
| Japanese | スーパーヒーローのジレンマ |
| Korean | 슈퍼 히어로의 도덕적 딜레마 |
| Spanish | El dilema moral (del superhéroe/ |
| French | Dilemme du héros |
| Russian | Герой и непростой моральный выбор |
| Thai | ปัญหาศีลธรรมของซูเปอร์ฮีโร่ |
| Vietnamese | Nghịch Cảnh Đạo Đức Của Siêu Anh Hùng |
| German | Das moralische Dilemma eines Superhelden |
| Indonesian | Konflik Moral Pahlawan Super |
| Portuguese | Um Super-Herói Preso em um Dilema Moral |
Change History
Released in Version 4.2
