The Remaining Towers

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"So this whole time… For millions of years, our world's power… It has been drained…" The Holy Spirit of Nature seemed very shaken. "I suppose it was like having our power sealed. So the reason we couldn't intervene as much as we would have wanted, it wasn't because we were weak."

"They were weakening you." I nodded. "Maybe… Perhaps even the reason you were unable to develop consciousness sooner was because of the Demonic Towers, because the power was being drained so much, your development as Gods of this world was delayed a long time."

"Those damned invaders…" The Holy Spirit of Darkness was furious, his black clouds thundering with rage. "They were not even letting us fully develop, all so they could swallow our world before we could even do anything to defend it!"