While Shin was spending a full year in the lost dimension, chaos spread through the tower, thanks to his plans.
The origin of the problem was the fact that neither he nor Carolina ever completed the entrance test, having explored a bug about the tower system that only he paid attention to. The test wouldn't end unless all participants had either died or gotten approved.
As a consequence, the expansion system remained suspended. Without it, guilds couldn't wage war against one another, and neither could the clans. What had been a small rule, originally meant to provide stability during the short testing period, had instead become a nightmare.
The guilds were the true foundation of the clans' power. They were system entities capable of holding territory, with ownership over those lands that could only be overwritten through a guild war, and such conflicts were now banned while the expansion system remained blocked.
