"It's not too far from East China, but since it's in the International Public Zone, the American Empire and other national powers will also send people to compete for ownership of the secret realm."
"Eastern Capital..." Yi Tian's expression turned mocking.
The International Public Zone referred to the now-ownerless territories of countries that had been destroyed by Other Races or Evil Demons long ago.
Over Blue Star's two hundred years of supernatural history, quite a few countries had fallen.
When other countries had the strength to spare, they would try to drive out or eliminate the dangerous enemies that had destroyed those nations, with mixed results.
But with foreign enemies looming on all sides, no country would voluntarily annex ownerless territory and add to its defensive burden.
As a result, the territories of those fallen countries remained unclaimed and were designated the International Public Zone.
Eastern Capital was the former site of the island nation.
The island nation had never been particularly powerful. A type of Ghost Race had wiped it out early on, reducing its territory to ruins.
Whenever a dungeon, secret realm, ruin, or something similar appeared in the International Public Zone, every country had the right to compete for it.
Of course, every country was eligible in theory.
In practice, only a handful of powerful nations dared venture into the public zone to compete.
Great Xia was one of them.
And of those nations, Great Xia and the American Empire competed in the public zone the most frequently and fiercely.
The other countries had seen their strength rise and fall over those two hundred years of supernatural history, but ultimately none had kept pace. Some weaker nations could not even secure the secret realms within their own borders and had to seek foreign assistance, making them even