After Bordian's explanation.
Lina and the others finally understood the precise conflict between him and Dorian.
On the surface, the conflict between Bordian and Dorian appeared to be a struggle for control of the group.
But in truth, it was a proxy war.
Two influential figures from the Frostsound Family were using them to wage a brutal, under-the-table contest.
Dorian's backer sought to lay hands on the mining rights to Tears of Deep Blue, using them to elevate their standing within the family.
Bordian's backer, meanwhile, was determined to defend their own interests to the death and would never allow anyone to come carve up their slice of the Deep Blue Metropolis pie.
However, while the conflict between the two sides had grown fiercer and fiercer, the Frostsound Family forbade infighting.
As a result, those two members of the Frostsound Family did not dare make any grand moves. They could only openly and covertly battle over Skysea Group's mining qualifications.
Skysea Group, after all, was the discoverer of the new vein. Although its overall strength was far inferior to Blue Sound Group, which had occupied the Tears of Deep Blue vein for years and operated across several major metropolises.
According to New Federation regulations, as long as Skysea Group could provide sufficient funds to the New Federation government and prove that it possessed the capability to mine Tears of Deep Blue.
Then it could develop this newly discovered vein.
Moreover, this regulation had not only been written into the New Federation's constitution, but had also received the unanimous support of the four great families.
It was an ironclad rule that no one was allowed to violate—not even the New Federation's four great families.
Thus, if they wanted Skysea Group to give up the mining rights to the new Tears of