Non-Existent State
Last updated 2026-09-05
Non-Existent State is the seventh part of the Trailblaze Mission chapter The Lethe Below the Living. It automatically begins after completing Yesterday's World.
Steps
- Discuss the token with Graphia
- Check on your companions
- Head to Graphia Academy and continue the adventure
Dialogue
Discuss the token with Graphia
Mission DescriptionNothing stirs around the Blue Maw. It looks no different from when we first saw it, as if no one had ever leaped down.
And with that, Silver Wolf and I have accompanied Blade on his final journey.
I should ask Graphia about the token. I need to keep it safe for Evanescia until she wakes up.
- Silver Wolf: ...
- Graphia: Are you intending to stay here until the outcome is revealed?
- Silver Wolf: ...
- Silver Wolf: It might take forever for him to return. Or he might never come back at all.
- Silver Wolf: Or maybe if I just complain and say, "I wish Blade were here," he'll just show up.
- Silver Wolf: Anyway, it was his choice. We already said our goodbyes.
- Silver Wolf: Thank you. For staying with him until the very end.
- Graphia: Now, it is time to deal with your matters.
- Graphia: Gray-haired (boy,/
girl,) you seek me out with her token in hand. What is it that you desire? 
I've already told you why I am here.
- Graphia: Already told me?
- Didn't you ask me to come here?
- Graphia: I don't quite follow.
- Graphia: Our first meeting was just before we took the boat here.
- Graphia: I only answered the call of Wishpower because of that mask, the one painted by Evanescia. Without it, I would not be here.
- Graphia: So, who is this "me" you speak of?
- ???: Me, of course.
- Silver Wolf: Not you again... A meanie will always be a meanie.
- Asat Pramad: Misfortune and I share one thing in common: we both enjoy dropping in uninvited.
- Asat Pramad: A reunion after a thousand years. Graphia, it has been a long time.
- Graphia: Asat Pramad...
- So you finally showed yourself, Lord Ravager.
- I knew it. This goes much deeper than I thought.
- Graphia's archnemesis...
- Asat Pramad: No, no, we're far more than just archnemeses...
- Asat Pramad: Back at Inkford Hermitage, what you heard was only half the story.
- Asat Pramad: A thousand years ago, amidst the ruins of Ahatopia, I found a baby girl on the verge of death.
- Asat Pramad: Her cold, lifeless body reminded me of the legend of "Elation." Aha heard an infant cry and burst into laughter.
- Asat Pramad: Too bad I never did get the joke. So, I came up with a much better one.
- Asat Pramad: I infused that child with the power of "Destruction," giving her the rebirth of a Voidranger. I taught her to paint her monstrous beasts using the life of the Voracity as pigment, all to carry out the Legion's divine will.
- Asat Pramad: Graphia, your name was your commission. To paint the world and "carve a trace of our lasting glory, just before the world meets its destruction."
- Asat Pramad: You were doing so well. Right up until you saw that Express crash. It gave you ideas, Graphia. Unrealistic, foolish ideas.
- Graphia: Since that day, I have had nothing to do with you or your "Destruction."
- Graphia: Your failure began the moment you tried to destroy the Express. All you did was turn the spirit of the Nameless into a rallying cry for rebellion.
- Graphia: I took the power you forced upon me and used it to save the innocent. You commanded me to record the end of worlds, but instead, I created a sanctuary.
- Asat Pramad: So you think putting on a human mask makes you one of the "Trailblazers." How amusing...
- Asat Pramad: Look at yourselves. That Weathering Curse is still eating away at you and your kin. It is the inescapable price for being a child of Destruction who dares to betray her fate.
- Asat Pramad: World in Canvas? A total disaster, yet you still try to dress it up as a victory.
- Asat Pramad: Do you know why I haven't spared Ahatopia a single glance for an entire millennium?
- Asat Pramad: Because you bore me.
- Graphia: ...
- Asat Pramad: But now, things have changed. Someone far more interesting than you has returned. And unlike you, she is the real deal, a genuine Nameless.
- Asat Pramad: That is why I have returned. Simply to tell you all this.
- That genuine Nameless...
- (Trailblazer): Himeko?
- Silver Wolf: I've had my fill of this drama. Now, I'm dying to see how your face handles my fist.
- Graphia: For a thousand years, I have painted them over and over again. Every innocent life you extinguished during the Cindearth Age...
- Graphia: Tell me, Asat Pramad. Are you prepared to face their fury?
- Asat Pramad: I have more important things to do than linger here. But this little parting gift of yours...
- Asat Pramad: Why not let them have a taste instead?
- (Cutscene begins)
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- Asat Pramad: Come forth. Demonstrate your defiance!
- (Trailblazer): ...Is it over?
- Silver Wolf: Watch out!
- Asat Pramad: Pity... Such a clean strike...
- Asat Pramad: But the odds of success... are zero.
- Silver Wolf: The restraint check failed?
- Asat Pramad: A one-in-ten-thousand chance...
- Asat Pramad: The moment I cast the...
- Asat Pramad: ...The outcome is fixed.
- Asat Pramad: Remove the mask, "protagonist." It doesn't suit you.
- Asat Pramad: As for you... Your end is decided. Farewell.
- (Trailblazer): Graphia![Note 1]
- Graphia: Sorry...
- Graphia: I... have failed.
- (Cutscene ends)
- (Begin battle against
Murata Graphia, Founding Artist ×1) -
- Graphia: Minions of Destruction! I will drive you all from this world!
- Silver Wolf: We must force her back to her senses!
- (After Graphia's first turn)
- (Trailblazer): Do we have to go full force?
- Silver Wolf: Of course not! That is exactly what that "meanie" wants!
- (After Graphia's first turn in Phase II)
- Silver Wolf: ...We need to finish this fast, and catch up to Asat Pramad!
- Silver Wolf: Looks like I have to use LV.999 one more time.
- ???: No need for that. If a sword is needed, let it be mine.
- (Cutscene begins)
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- Yingxing: Have you thought it through...?
- Yingxing: What defines a blade?
- Blade: The sharpness that endures... after all has worn away...
- Blade: I shall take Voracity as my forge, and Abundance as my iron...
- Blade: Die a thousand deaths...
- Blade: And be tempered into a blade.
- Blade: What [sic]
- Blade: Not even a "welcome back"?
- (Cutscene ends)
- (Interactive tutorial)
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- Blade: Don't hesitate. Slay her inner demons with this forged blade
- (Use Mortenax Blade)
- Silver Wolf: No way! Blade! You answered my prayers!
- Blade: One-in-ten chance of survival? I choose to survive!
- (After Murata Graphia, Founding Artist ends her turn)
- Blade: What happened to her?
- (Trailblazer): This is Asat Pramad's handiwork. We have to bring her to her senses first!
- (Battle ends)
- (Cutscene plays)
- (Cutscene ends)
Check on your companions
- Step DescriptionWith Blade's help, Graphia managed to break free from Destruction's rampage.
Asat Pramad has already arrived at Planarcadia. Transmit this news to your companions as soon as possible.
- Blade: I hope I am not too late.
- Silver Wolf: Are you kidding? Your timing is impeccable, Bladie!
- Silver Wolf: But isn't this a bit much? How did you even change outfits? What happened down there?
- Blade: I used the Leviathan's maw to imprison Shuhu. But that doesn't matter.
- Silver Wolf: What matters is that you made it out alive and got the job done.
- Blade: Not yet. I have made a decision...
- Blade: This time, I will stay and become a Supplicant. I am joining the Phantasmoon Games.
- Silver Wolf: What? You're going to stay here and poke your nose into this world's business too!?
- Blade: Let us settle this first. Are you okay?
- Graphia: Thank you, all of you.
- We will stop Asat Pramad!
- Graphia: I will do everything I can to help you...
- Are you really alright?
- Graphia: As long as the canvas remains, Asat Pramad cannot kill me. You have fulfilled what Evanescia entrusted to you.
- Graphia: It was... all me... For a thousand years, I was the one obsessed with bearing every responsibility alone.
- Graphia: Asat Pramad was right after all. I have been a ghost of a thousand years past, arrogant enough to think my seal over the World in Canvas was unbreakable. I really believed that accumulated Wishpower would be enough to strike him down when he returned.
- Graphia: We are up against the same nightmare that survived a whole Cindearth Age. The same monster that an entire era could not even overcome.
- Silver Wolf: Just how did he even sneak into the World in Canvas?
- (Trailblazer): The first time I stepped into Inkford Hermitage, a strange wispae tried to latch onto me, but it didn't succeed...
- (Trailblazer): Maybe that was the first step in Asat Pramad's plan to infiltrate this place.
- (Trailblazer): Then, he took on Graphia's form to tamper with my mask and even taught me the way to summon the real Graphia. In the end, he got what he wanted.
- Silver Wolf: So, this guy has only been after one thing this whole time.
- To weaken Graphia.
- To break the barrier of the World in Canvas.
- Blade: And to awaken the husk of "the Voracity." We need to leave this place as soon as possible. The giant maw that swallowed me is starting to stir.
- Silver Wolf: But he mentioned he had something more important to do... What is that even supposed to mean? He has so much on his plate, no way he can split himself into pieces and handle everything at once, right?
- Graphia: A thousand years ago, the Demon Lord From Beyond invaded Ahatopia. The power he unleashed was beyond all comprehension.
- Graphia: He could appear in places thousands of miles apart at the exact same time, as if he possessed countless incarnations.
- Silver Wolf: Whaaaaaaaat???
- (Trailblazer): He said he was meeting a "genuine Nameless..."
- (Trailblazer): ...Himeko, she's in trouble!
Head to Graphia Academy and continue the adventure
- Step DescriptionEven the most elaborate punchline feels cheap without a proper setup.
I've been preparing for a long, long time to tell this joke.
So, for Aha's sake, just laugh.
- Ryusuke: The biggest problem... Do you mean me?
- Himeko: You said that classroom was a secret place of your own creation, yet Fulwish seemed to know everything about it.
- Himeko: You are far too familiar with the Express, yet there is no way my father could have ever set foot on it.
- Himeko: And another thing, when we first met up earlier, you said it had been fifteen years.
- Himeko: But my father clearly left much earlier than that. Your story is riddled with holes. Or rather, you never even intended to pretend.
- Ryusuke: You are the only person I can never seem to lie to. And about that last point, it was just a slip of the tongue.
- Himeko: Stop this pathetic act. You are not him.
- Himeko: You, who dare to impersonate my father, show your true self.
- Ryusuke: It seems our pleasant little father daughter chat has come to an end.
- Ryusuke: Buying time, keeping me pinned down, you played your part well along the way.
- Ryusuke: If I proved to be more dangerous than anticipated, you would be right there to shield your companions.
- Ryusuke: But "Navigator," you still overlooked one possibility. The most fatal one of all...
- Ryusuke: Why don't you try to guess, at what exact point, did I take Ryusuke's place?
- Himeko: ...
- Ryusuke: It happened on the day that man, in his desperate search for the source of the Weathering Curse to save his family, was destroyed by me.
- Ryusuke: That year, Himeko was six. At her mother's funeral, she met her father for the first time.
- Himeko: You are lying.
- Ryusuke: I have told you only one lie in all these years, my dear daughter.
- Ryusuke: "Nice to meet you. I am your father, Ryusuke."
- Himeko: All that effort, all those years spent by my side... What are you really planning?
- Ryusuke: Even I find it hard to tell what goes on in this head of mine sometimes.
- Ryusuke: But now as I look at your face, at that exquisite expression, it all makes sense...
- Ryusuke: I had SO MUCH FUN playing a father.
- Ryusuke: And the best part? That was not even the most fun I have had today.
- Ashveil: Hey! Can you hear me? Someone who looks like Asat Pramad just showed up at the tavern!
- Welt: We are under attack by Asat Pramad! Dan Heng and I will do everything we can to cover Yao Guang...
- Ryusuke: I have played along this far, so why not make it interesting? Let us add a dash of red to our little opening act.
- Ryusuke: You have proven your theory by tearing off the mask of "Ryusuke." As a courtesy, it's now time to strip away your disguise.
- Ryusuke: The ugliest lie of the "Trailblaze." The truth that has been hidden for fifteen years.
- Red-Haired Woman: ...
- Red-Haired Woman: "When the Phantasmoon is full again, I will be there as I have promised."
- Red-Haired Woman: "I will come back with so many stories to tell you."
- Ryusuke: The girl looked up at the stars, but in her heart, she was terrified of setting out. She was afraid of the universe, and even more, she was afraid of the weight of responsibility.
- Ryusuke: In the end, she'd left her wishes to someone else. As for her, she chose to lie in a grave and stay in the arcadia forever.
- Ryusuke: Ryusuke's daughter, Himeko, is long dead. When she saw how vast the stars really were, she ran away.
- Ryusuke: Just as the "Trailblaze" will always converge with the "Destruction," culminating in awe-inspiring obliteration.
- (Cutscene begins)
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- Asat Pramad: So you really are a fake.
- "Himeko": Right back at you.
- Asat Pramad: O denizens of this arcadia, lost in its splendor... Once, I beheld the Astral Express rise again towards the stars here.
- Asat Pramad: Since then, you have known fifteen long years of unbroken peace.
- Asat Pramad: It's been a while, old friend.
- Asat Pramad: For fifteen years, it was I — Asat Pramad — who delivered every promise of beauty to this arcadia in advance...
- Asat Pramad: Now...
- Asat Pramad: Please, indulge in these long-overdue surprises.
- (Cutscene ends)
- (Visitor Verification)
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- (Mortenax Blade has become a visitor to the Express. You might come across Mortenax Blade when you return to the Express)
Notes
- ↑ Shown at the same time as the previous line.
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name |
|---|---|
| English | Non-Existent State |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 不存在的国度 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 不存在的國度 |
| Japanese | 存在しない国 |
| Korean | 존재하지 않는 나라 |
| Spanish | El reino inexistente |
| French | Nation inexistante |
| Russian | Царство, которого нет |
| Thai | ดินแดนที่ไม่มีอยู่จริง |
| Vietnamese | Vương Quốc Không Tồn Tại |
| German | Das Land, das es nicht gibt |
| Indonesian | Negeri yang Tidak Eksis |
| Portuguese | O Estado Inexistente |
Change History
Released in Version 4.3
