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Through many years of interactions with the tower and its countless worlds, the people of Thebes had learned from highly advanced civilizations Maria had yet to visit—especially one entirely dominated by machines.
From those lessons, they recreated and refined such technology using their own unique resources, channeling the power of the Golden Sands to elevate it far beyond the lowly machines they had imitated.
Hundreds of years had passed since then, and Thebes had firmly established itself as a powerhouse among the Upper Floors, ruling over ten entire worlds.
Maria had even uncovered the grim truth behind their extraction of Toykin souls: they fed them to a malevolent Egyptian god that had slumbered for ages, sealed within a highly advanced Divine Tomb—a powerful Core housed deep inside the colossal Pyramid.
"I see how it is! Damn it, I hate how cool they are," Maria muttered, clicking her tongue in frustration.
