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n“Are you sure those memories tackled something called the Age of the Grand Tide, Sana?” With a solemn expression still adorning his face, Valyr asked a question back to his spear as he stopped in his tracks, wanting to know more about the matter before continuing his way back to the inn. “Is it possible for you to go over through some of those memories with me?”

n“I’ll try to recall them to the best of my abilities, Master,” said Sana in response, its voice echoing within Valyr’s mind. “After gaining the ability to talk with you, I’ve lost the ability to go through a great portion of the memories within your mind for some reason, so I apologize if the details I give to you aren’t the most specific.”

n“That’s not a problem.” In response to his spear’s words, Valyr assured Sana that he didn’t need any specific information regarding the memories it had seen, just some broad details that would allow him to narrow down through his treasure trove of memories and confirm his suspicions.

nNevertheless, the fact that Sana mentioned to him that it had lost the ability to go through most of his memories made him raise his eyebrow in curiosity for a brief moment, wondering if weapon bonds had such an ability like that for NPCs in the first place.

nThinking that he could obtain the answer to this question alongside other questions he had racked up so far after making a quick visit to the city’s library in the near future, Valyr placed the matter at the back of his head for now, moving once more in the direction of the inn as he attentively listened to what Sana had to say.

n“If what I can remember from looking through your memories is correct, the images I saw from your memories was that of a sight of a landscape where monsters of all various shapes and sizes covered a great portion of it. On the other hand, people like you, Master, covered a small portion of that landscape.” After a bit of silence, Sana proceeded to tell Valyr what it could recall from looking through the latter’s memories.

n“However, unlike the monsters, which all seemed to be filled to the brim with energy, all of you had multiple injuries, some light, some severe. Nevertheless, the overall feeling that I was getting from the side that was filled with people was that of hopelessness. It was as if it was only then did they realize that the number of monsters before them truly seemed to be never ending… or something along those lines.”

n“Hmm…” Pondering over his spear’s description of one of the memories it had seen, Valyr went silent as he rummaged through his memories while continuing to make his way back to the inn, eventually coming across multiple memories that more or less matched up what Sana had described to him.

nWith the context behind these memories varying from one another, with some being memories regarding the highest level of monster tides, while others tackled monster tides far worse than even the highest level, he eventually came to the conclusion that he needed a bit more information regarding the memories Sana saw to confirm his suspicions, asking the latter if it was possible for it to recall yet another memory.

nHearing Valyr’s request, Sana responded back that it would try its best to recall another one, going silent once more as Valyr waited with bated breath, gradually becoming more and more nervous as time passed. Fortunately, by the time he was only a couple streets away from the inn he and Wells were staying at, Sana had recalled yet another memory that had triggered its awakening, causing the young man to stop in his tracks as he listened once more to what his spear had to say.

n“Unlike the memory I described earlier where there were a lot of monsters, there’s only one monster in this one.” Sana began its description of the new memory with a stark contrast between the current one it was describing and the previous one it had already described. “However, in terms of size, this monster more or less spanned the same area those monsters from the previous memory covered, if not more.”

nContinuing to listen in silence, Valyr rummaged through his treasure trove of memories once again, narrowing down the list of possibilities as Sana continued to give him more and more information regarding the specific memory it had seen.

n“This monster had 20 legs, with each leg giving off the feeling that it seemed to have come from the skies above whenever it touched the ground,” Sana told him. “In comparison, there were over hundreds of openings on its underside, all of them giving me the feeling that the memory from earlier would occur if any one of those opened up.”

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n“Do you still perhaps recall the name of the specific monster, Sana?” By this point, Valyr had already narrowed it down to a single memory, a grim expression now adorning his face as this second memory had more or less confirmed his suspicions. To be honest, he didn’t really need to ask Sana this question as he already knew the answer.

nThen again, it was still better to find out to be sure.

n“Er… I’m not too sure about this one, Master.” As Sana responded to his question, it radiated off a feeling of uncertainty. “But from what I can recall, the first word was Arachnaris…”

n“Arachnaris…” Valyr muttered in response. “Arachnaris, the Ancestral Tidemother of Origin?”

n“Yes! That’s the one, Master!” Sana swiftly affirmed Valyr’s guess. “That’s the name of the monster in the memory.”

n“I see.” Nodding in response to Sana’s words, Valyr thanked his spear for cooperating with him as he contemplated over everything he had found out from Sana thus far, a pensive expression adorning his face as he eventually returned to the inn.𝑶𝔳𝗅xt.𝑪𝓞𝓂

npαndα`noνɐ1~сoМ Heading straight to the room they were occupying, Wells quickly found Wells already sound asleep, prompting him to head to the portion of the room he occupied as he inwardly let out a long sigh. ‘Out of all the memories it had to go through, it really stumbled upon those ones, huh.’

nThough Sana stumbling upon those memories of his did not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, to Valyr, it signaled the start of something he had already expected to happen at some point, which was the fact that everything would begin to deviate from what he knew as a player thanks to his actions.

nOf course, he had a feeling that it had already begun to deviate after he had obtained the World Quest concerning the storyline of Greater Beyond’s first version. However, Sana stumbling upon those memories only made him realize that it had deviated even more.

nThat was because the Age of the Grand Tide Sana mentioned…

n…was the storyline of Greater Beyond’s third version.

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