"Perhaps because they had grown accustomed to war, even fallen in love with it."
The Wolf King said calmly, "Just like the Turan People, ever since the people of Dragon City crossed over into the treacherous Otherworld, where danger lurked on every side, they had been fighting the brutal environment for survival every moment of every day, with utmost resolve and bloodshed.
"In the process of battling heaven and earth, survival became the highest law and ultimate goal. Everything in the entire civilization had to serve war. Most people either became warriors directly or engaged in work related to war. Our culture also came to worship martial valor more and more, to believe ever more deeply in the laws of the strong devouring the weak and winner takes all.
"The dividends brought by war allowed the Supreme Experts of Dragon City and Turanze to gradually seize the authority of the entire civilization. They enjoyed incomparably generous returns from war, saw the possibility of becoming ever stronger, and gained the awe, support, and submission of the masses.
"Under such circumstances, not everyone liked this thing called 'peace.'
"If I remembered correctly from my 'Doomsday Nightmare,' the Nine Great Families controlling Dragon City had all, more or less, set foot in the military industry. They had even formed an enormous Military-Industrial Complex, hadn't they?"
Meng Chao hesitated for a moment before nodding. "Dragon City in reality has not yet developed to the point of being completely controlled by the 'Nine Great Families.' But you are right. The Nine Super Enterprises have indeed all entered the military industry, controlling powerful Enterprise Armed Forces and possessing peak experts capable of sweeping aside all before them.
"Without sufficient strength, they could not possibly have developed to their current level in Dragon City's exceedingly harsh environment."