Stuck on Classical intro to Modern Number Theory page 157?

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Could anyone who also owns the book explain why points of degree d, raised to powers of q are in the algebraic set V and why they are distinct? (Lines 7 to 11 on page 157). I've looked at chapter 7 on finite fields for the reasoning like the authors advised but can't see why it's true. Any help would be hugely appreciated.