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The atmosphere was a stark departure from the ventilation shafts he had been navigating up until now.

Those were nothing but wide conduits of desolate black steel, designed and engineered for one purpose only: to evacuate and reabsorb potential energy surpluses when the Magnetic Resonator's Conversion Chamber was temporarily overwhelmed. Whether it was radiation or temperature, they were abnormally high in these passages.

In comparison, the well-lit, properly furnished room now laid bare before him was far more welcoming.

It was the same Voidsteel cladding each wall and ceiling, as if countless tunnels and chambers had been carved into a colossal block of metal like an anthill.

However, the ornate decorations and opulent furniture made the place pleasantly habitable. Most Civilians and low-level Evolvers lived in conditions far worse than this.