Little Witch

As he was thinking, the cheers rising and falling all around gradually subsided.

In their place came a solemn, reverent atmosphere.

Meng Chao looked up and saw that dozens of formations had already taken their positions in the center of Citizens' Square.

Before Citizens' Square stood a monument that had only just been erected.

It commemorated the heroic spirits who had fallen gloriously in the Battle of Annihilation outside Dragon City.

The nearly hundred-meter-tall monument was forged from Super Alloy mixed with monster bone powder. Sharp-edged and gleaming brilliantly, it resembled a blade from Earth plunged deep into the soil of the Otherworld.

Its base had been carved into the shape of countless monster corpses, symbolizing the glorious Martial Arts achievement of human civilization crushing Monster Civilization.

The monument's surface was densely engraved, in hollowed-out lettering, with the names of every person who had perished in this battle.

When the noonday sunlight poured in from the top of the monument, cleverly reflected, refracted, and diffracted through the light, it blossomed from those hollowed-out names into a breathtaking rain of rainbows.

No matter which angle one viewed it from, one would be shrouded by the rainbow rain, as though protected by the heroic spirits of the martyrs.

The sight left Meng Chao somewhat dazed.

He could not help thinking of a similar experience at the same place in his previous life.

Back then, there had also been a monument in Citizens' Square.

But it had not been a victory monument boasting of glorious achievements.

It had been a memorial to the victims, ten times more numerous.

The mottled bloodstains upon it represented one unimaginably brutal battle after another that Dragon City had endured in the Monster War.

When citizens came to Citizens' Square in those days, they had certainly not been