That said, although the Crimson Dragon Army and the Nine Super Enterprises held major differences over the composition of Dragon City's armed forces in the future,
for a long time, those differences had remained confined to the verbal sparring of the councilors.
The Crimson Dragon Army had no desire to tear all pretense of civility apart with the Nine Super Enterprises.
There were three reasons for this:
First, when the Crimson Dragon Army was first established, it had received support from the Nine Super Enterprises, including but not limited to manpower, technology, and funding.
Naturally, on some level, the Crimson Dragon Army was also subject to the Nine Super Enterprises' restraints.
Quite a few of the Crimson Dragon Army's core members had originally come from the Nine Great Cultivation Families.
Even after years of bloody warfare had gradually nurtured their loyalty to the Crimson Dragon Army, they still could not avoid being influenced by their Lineages.
Second, the prolonged Monster War had laid a heavy burden upon the Crimson Dragon Army: the livelihoods and pensions of wounded and disabled veterans.
The ongoing military reduction and reorganization also consumed astronomical sums of money.
The budget, riddled with holes alone, was enough to give the military brass a splitting headache.
At such a difficult time, when every penny had to be split in two, it was hard for the Crimson Dragon Army to engage in a head-on contest with the deep-pocketed Nine Super Enterprises.
Third, though the two sides differed in their philosophies regarding the construction of armed forces, they had fought shoulder to shoulder for decades. Beneath the beast tides that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, they had once saved each other's lives. Even now, they remained the two pillars supporting Dragon City Civilization against the treacherous and