For the native tribes on Purgatory Planet, the shock brought by the world's sudden, earth-shaking transformation had still not completely faded even now.
The clouds covering the grasslands had dispersed, and the canopy of Firstborn Toka's tree, which had once become the planet's upper crust, had also been stripped away. The sun had returned to the world, while all kinds of giant plants and animals that had gone extinct had returned as well. "Goddess" Vivian had brought about the rise of the Sun People, and had also brought this world an incredible city of steel. Soul Suppressing City, towering at the heart of the grasslands, and the "Cities of Steel and Storm" scattered across the world—actually drone hangars and autonomous production plants—had become new holy sites in the eyes of the native people. Even the ancient spirits of the Solar Dynasty had returned to the world from Helheim, teaching the people lost ancient technologies. Although many nomads did not really understand what these things were for, the younger generation among them had already become deeply fascinated by the knowledge of their ancestors and was gradually adapting to settled life in the cities. Bania was one of them.
Bania, the little Saintess of the Fire Tribe, had now settled with her people in the "New Holy City" near Soul Suppressing City. This New Holy City had been built under the guidance of the spirits of their ancestors, modeled after the urban layout of the ancient Solar Dynasty. Although it was nowhere near comparable to that incredible era, the New Holy City's orderly streets and sturdy houses still seemed miraculous to Bania, filling her with an even greater yearning for ancient knowledge.
In the eyes of the ancestral spirit Gragon, however, the New Holy City was, at best, merely a collection of