Victory Day

Joyful celebrations filled the entire Earth.

Everywhere was decked out in lights and decorations. Crowds unable to contain their excitement marched through the streets with flags and banners, proudly cheering for the Solar Fleet's victory.

Some of the flags they held bore the image of humanity's Victory Monument, floating in the Kuiper Belt.

Though these ordinary people in the rear had not directly tasted the brutality of war, they had still experienced the terror of being threatened by the Celestials' bioweapons.

Countless people had been forced to leave their homes, while countless others had been separated from their families by life and death.

In a short span of time, the war had changed the fundamental character of human civilization, as well as the fate this timeline had originally been destined to follow.

After all, in the original timeline where Lox had never appeared, humanity's greatest problem had merely been the mutants constantly emerging from among humankind.

Mutants and humans clashed with one another, sometimes blending together and sometimes standing in opposition.

But no matter how much the mutants caused trouble, no matter how Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants and Professor X's X-Men fought and loved and hated one another, humanity still held the overall advantage.

Only when humanity faced an external enemy it could not resist was it possible for the species to truly unite and set aside its prejudices.

"Back then, I predicted that if humanity could overcome the threat of the Celestials' Blade, mutants and ordinary humans would truly merge into one."

"Only war could melt solid ice and recast steel."

"Look, my prediction came true."

Lox and Trazyn quietly appeared amid the celebrating crowd.

Under the distortion and disguise of psychic power, the surrounding people did not notice that two unusual beings had appeared beside them.

Trazyn was