When they thought about it, many of the Deity Realm warriors present frowned deeply and were secretly annoyed.

It should be said that the “first-generation Deity Realm warriors,” who had fought their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, basically adhered to the moral concept of classicism.

Even an overbearing senior like Shen Yuanbao still had some dignity.

To obtain more shares for their mega corporations after the war, they tried to take the lead and personally end the monster mastermind.

After all, the rule in the superhuman circle was that whoever made the greatest contribution would have more say and distribution rights.

Unexpectedly, the beast horde outside the Hidden Mist Domain continued to disperse as if the monster civilization was past its weakest point.

The monster mastermind was even more powerful than they had imagined.

By the time the Deity Realm fighters realized that it was not an easy battle and that both sides were likely to suffer heavy losses, they were already in an awkward situation.

They had no choice but to bite the bullet and persevere through this tough battle, which involved killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of their own.

In the end, the monster mastermind was indeed killed by them.

They had also lost, at least temporarily, their absolute military power to control dragon city.

It was to the extent that even a small fry like the Azure Alliance dared to show off and stir up trouble.

“I just realized that this is a conspiracy, a full-on conspiracy!”

The whiner continued. “Perhaps, the monster mastermind carefully arranged all of this. It’s a strategy called ‘retreating to advance.’ It allowed its death on the surface and the ostensible end of the monster civilization for us to lower our guard and shift our focus.

“As news of our great victory in the Monster War spread throughout the city, the monster was no longer the main enemy that all superhumans and ordinary people faced together.

“The contradiction between superhumans and ordinary people, between wealthy and humble families, between Deity Realm powerhouses who number less than three digits and hundreds of thousands of low-level and middle-level superhumans surfaced. That became the main conflict in the Dragon City civilization.

“As the saying goes, ‘only through thick and thin, not through wealth and prosperity.’ It is the evil nature of human beings that has been branded deep in their genes.

“In the face of the monster civilization’s fatal threat, the ordinary people and the superhumans, the poor and the wealthy, the middle- and low-level superhumans, and the peerless experts managed to temporarily put aside their disagreements, conflicts of interest, and subtle differences in their mentality. They could work together to unite as one against the common enemy!

“However, once that huge ‘calamity’ no longer existed, and the ‘wealth’ that splashed the sky fell on everyone’s head, the comrades who experienced life and death in the past immediately became competitors for the same reward. What’s so strange about that?

“And the monster civilization that seemed to perish a long time ago actually didn’t die but only changed its form.

“Perhaps, the monster mastermind realized long ago that if it continued on the path of ‘enlargement,’ there would only be death!

“What of Demon Mountain and the Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon? Apocalyptic Beasts can blot out the sky and cover the sun, but their bodies are too huge, too clumsy, and too wasteful.

“Let’s not talk about other aspects. How much energy do they need to resist gravity, maintain the structure of their bodies, and maintain their physical strength?

“Now, we move on to heat dissipation. Let’s say the area of their skin can only be calculated in terms of squares. As their bodies continue to grow in size, the size of the cubes continues to increase. That causes the area of the skin corresponding to each cube of flesh and blood to continuously shrink. Hence, the problem of heat dissipation becomes increasingly serious, greatly affecting the enormous monsters’ combat strength.

“Even if they have absolutely sufficient spirit energy, the excess heat will be excreted through some mysterious method. These targets are too big, their movements are too slow, and there is almost no place to hide. These fatal flaws have reduced Apocalyptic Beasts such as the Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon to fools that are too big for their own good. They are just living targets for mankind’s flood of steel!

“Such Apocalyptic Beasts are just like the dinosaurs that once ruled the world on Earth. In the end, they were no match for the giant waves that evolved in that era!

“Therefore, I highly suspect that the monster mastermind realized this problem a long time ago during its continuous battles with the human civilization. It made up its mind to abandon the past development model and form of its civilization, changing from ‘enormous’ to ‘minute.’

“The most powerful monster should never be a big and useless fool like the Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon.

“Instead, it should shrink continuously to the size of parasites, bacteria, and even viruses. Besides, on this scale, it can carry a large amount of fatal genetic information and sneak into the human body without anyone noticing. It can manipulate a human’s perception, as well as affect that human’s logical thinking ability, and even knowledge of self. It can turn the proud human into a monster in human skin!

“At first glance, this new type of monster on the scale of a bacteria seems far less majestic, gorgeous, and domineering than the Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon.

“But think about it carefully. Once these new types of microscopic monsters spread across a large area in Dragon City, the damage they cause will be hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon!

“No… There might not be any ‘damage’ at all because this new microscopic monster will spread without anyone knowing. One will spread to ten, ten will spread to a hundred, a hundred will spread to a thousand, and a thousand will spread to ten thousand. By the time humans catch on, they would have already infected more than half of Dragon City’s population. Like a dove occupying a magpie’s nest, they will transform the Dragon City civilization into Monster Civilization 2.0 without any bloodshed!

“Think about it, everyone. Dragon City, which should be brightly lit, full of human voices, and full of vitality, but one day, when you wake up from your sleep, you will find that it has become lifeless and silent.

“Those people who should be sweating profusely in the factories, staying up late and working overtime in the office buildings, and running around in the streets and alleys would all be affected by the monster virus. They won’t be willing to contribute their strength to the advancement of Dragon City’s civilization.

“What a terrible picture that would be!

“And when such a nightmarish situation becomes reality, even if we have the power to destroy the world, how are we going to convince those people whose brains and central nerves have been controlled by the monster virus to go back to work and toil away for the advancement of our civilization?

“Fortunately for us, the monster civilization has still been too hasty, and they’ve exposed their scheme too early.

“Therefore, we must take today’s incident seriously. We must not treat it as an isolated case. We must treat it as a comeback from the monster civilization… No, we must treat it as the ultimate battle in which the monster civilization has finally exposed its sharpest fangs and tried to exterminate the Dragon City civilization!

“In order to protect Dragon City, we need to find the new monsters lurking among the citizens in human skin and eradicate them!”