Fang Zhen and more than ten others launched their surprise attack, leaving the over two hundred members from various major factions in the camp utterly dumbfounded.
The Dragon Crystal Vein in the Abyssal Caverns was known to everyone across Ten Thousand Dragon Star. It was a Dragon Crystal Vein occupied by the Imperial Kingdom in Ten Thousand Dragon Star's public zone. Any faction on good terms with the Imperial Kingdom that came to Ten Thousand Dragon Star and wanted a stable supply of Dragon Crystals would come to the Abyssal Caverns to mine.
According to the rules set by the Imperial Kingdom's administrators, mining in the Abyssal Caverns entitled one to one-twentieth of the proceeds. In other words, for every twenty Dragon Crystals mined, one could keep one for oneself.
Although the share was extremely low, it was stable on Ten Thousand Dragon Star. Dragon Crystals were exceedingly scarce throughout the planet and difficult to find. Worse still, one had to face the vast numbers of Magic Beasts on Ten Thousand Dragon Star. Often, one would risk one's life and toil for half a year without obtaining many Dragon Crystals. Then part of them had to be handed over to one's own overseers, leaving pitifully little behind.
As for those mineral veins capable of steadily producing large quantities of Dragon Crystals, they had all been occupied by major factions. The few places in Ten Thousand Dragon Star's public zone that contained Dragon Crystal Veins were also jointly occupied by powerful Half-step Spirit Merging experts. The Abyssal Caverns were one such place.
The Imperial Kingdom's Half-step Spirit Merging experts on Ten Thousand Dragon Star were all extraordinary. Of the Half-step Spirit Merging experts ranked among the planet's top hundred, the Imperial Kingdom alone accounted for nearly a third. Within Ten Thousand