"...Makes sense."
"University Professor" said, "The reason the Blood Alliance failed back then was absolutely not because our methods were cruel and inhuman, forcing ordinary people to venture deep into the Ancient Ruins for exploration.
"It was merely because Dragon City happened to be in a rare lull, when the zombie crisis was nearing its end and the monster threat had yet to become apparent.
"Those short-sighted ordinary people had no idea a new threat was about to descend, so they treated the Blood Alliance as the sole devil.
"Little did they know that it was precisely during the years when the Blood Alliance held power that Dragon City's fragmented and chaotic order was initially consolidated. We also spared no cost in excavating, from the Depths of Ancient Ruins, the secrets of breaking through life's limits. That was what gave Dragon City Civilization the capital to contend against Monster Civilization and achieve today's victory.
"Hmph. I dare say that if the overwhelming Beast Tide had arrived at the city's gates a few years earlier, those ordinary people would never have had the courage to resist the Blood Alliance's rule. They would have clung desperately to the Blood Alliance's thigh, crying and begging to delve into the Ancient Ruins in pursuit of power.
"And the Blood Alliance members whom they had called devils the day before would have transformed, the instant the Beast Tide appeared, into 'heroes, guardian gods, the war blades of human civilization,' bathed in the gaze of the masses and revered by countless people!"
"That's right. So Monster Civilization cannot be allowed to perish."
The Repair Shop Worker said flatly, "Even if the old Monster Civilization has already perished, we must create a new Monster Civilization—only when ordinary people constantly realize that a sharp and unstoppable Sword of