While Lu Fan was busy doing his things, interested parties had already started making their moves to 'secure' him.
Whatever the reason they had somehow come up with to convince themselves that what they were doing was for the greater good and nothing to do with self-interest and all that.
The Empire's Dragon One had been mobilized for the first time within its borders and the seven elites of Team 1 were all gathered for the first time ever since they had to retrieve the Empire's Ancestral Artefact from a buyer from the black market.
It was quite the operation that had drawn the attention of the whole world, after all, who would pass up the chance to study the prowess of the enemy?