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Nineteen years have passed since the meeting between worlds.
Only a couple of months remained before the Administrators descended—the very ones Maria had glimpsed through the Hourglass of Time.
So much had changed. Every member of every world had grown tremendously strong, shattering their limits again and again.
Through the powers Maria had shared, they had become entirely different from who they once were.
Over all those years, they had also exchanged countless strategies, techniques, formations, and more.
In one month, Maria and the Alliance would launch an all-out assault on the Tower's Upper Floors, aiming straight for the summit!
But today, Maria was taking it easy.
Earth.
"How was your day, you two? Was school too rough?"
Maria waited outside the grand Academy of the Awakened, a school she had personally sponsored and helped build on Earth.
She had hand-picked the teachers herself—educators who taught every awakened child how to harness their gifts.
