Why was this world abandoned? Why would she ask that?0

The queen’s words stirred a quiet sense of unease in me. 0

Isn’t this place just a replica of Earth?0

I felt fairly confident about that assumption. Signs written in English were scattered throughout the city, so the abandoned city had to be modeled after Earth.0

And yet, a nagging doubt lingered in the recesses of my mind.0

The queen said that she and Kasaan are the only trolls left in this world.0

She claimed the others had been turned into humans because of their overwhelming fear. Based on that assumption, every inhabitant we had encountered so far was originally a troll.0

At that moment, a theory began to take shape in my mind. Even if the abandoned city had been copied from Earth, there would still need to be a space to house the city.0

If that is the case, then is this world originally the trolls’?0

Perhaps, the trolls’ god had died or been stripped of their powers, leaving their world to become a colony open to the tower’s trials. The abandoned city could merely be an artificially constructed space designed for these trials.0

If so, everything started to make sense.0

That way, the tower can have as many “abandoned...0