Editing Monster Girl Encyclopedia II (section)

===The Resurgent Kingdoms of the Monsters===

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|content=In this age, those who guard the ruins (as well as the apophis who attack them) have become beautiful women. The long-sleeping pharaohs and their mummified subjects have also risen as bewitching monsters.

Pharaohs wake and return to their posts when their monstrous guards carry in human men and mate with them until the surrounding ruins are replete with monster mana. The pharaoh wakes, suffused with the power of the sun god and a potent concentration of monster mana. Green trees rise and the realm begins to look as it once did-only now, its residents are monsters. A grand kingdom spills into the desert once again, where human and monster alike gather to live. It becomes a hub of the desert, a greater state than before. Residents that still lie mummified without waking as monstrous mummies now open their eyes as monsters. Though they are living witnesses of the glory of yore, they cannot recall the past in any more detail than the pharaohs.

Meanwhile, the apophis have become bewitching women ornamented in silver, a lunar symbol, marking their contrast with the pharaohs. Apophis continue to target the sleeping pharaohs' ruins, their poison no longer deadly, instead rendering monsters into a state like that of a tamed animal. Pharaohs woken by an apophis rise not as rulers but as pets. Meanwhile, the apophis rules in their stead, making it a moonlit realm of everlasting night.

All of the monstrous subjects therein adopt silver ornaments, lending them a dancer-like appearance. From lamaia to the pharaohs and their servants, all come to exude an attractive, whorish aura. In the dark night, the town glitters with the unholy magical light of the monsters' ornaments. They draw men by the hand, the neighborhood glinting with the sparkling allure of those silver adornments, lending it all the salacious atmosphere of a bordello; every corner echoes with moans. It is a monstrous paradise, a contrast of the pharaoh's kingdom, thrumming as it does with monsters and men embracing pleasure.

Monsters called [[khepri|khepris]] have appeared in large groups to rebuild uninhabited kingdoms whose pharaohs perished during the reign of the previous Mamono Lord.  Though it may seem that they arrived out of nowhere, interviews with khepris show them to be familiar with the ruins and surrounding lands- as if they had lived there all along. Khepris remember the kingdoms of the distant past, though their recall is worse than the pharaohs'. One theory holds that the pharaohs' passing scattered their mana and divine power throughout the ruins so that it fused with the souls of their long-ago subjects, fallen in the midst of remorse - thus producing khepris.

The resulting monsters have golden shells filled with an enchanting sun-like light; it is as if the khepris inherited the power of the sun god that was once ensconced in their pharaohs. It is then speculated the khepris perceive themselves not as rulers, but as subjects, soldiers: the people of a resurgent kingdom, searching for a new leader to realize their dreams of national 
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