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Maria's family, having encountered worlds similar to Earth multiple times before, felt far less awe than Maria did. Still, they found it peculiar, everywhere they looked, there were only humans.
For a family composed of so many different species and races, a world inhabited solely by humans seemed almost alien. Players of other races existed, of course, but their numbers were very small.
After all, few had any compelling reason to descend to this seemingly insignificant world. At first glance, it offered nothing especially valuable beyond its eight billion inhabitants.
That immense population dwarfed every other world Maria had visited.
Yes—even Yggdrasil and Murim couldn't compare.
In those realms, constant dangers kept populations in check; people struggled to prosper and reproduce at the staggering scale Earth had achieved before its absorption into the Tower.
