In the ruins of a Yamato Empire compound…
Ethan looked at the storage ring on his finger—at the crystal cores piled inside until they were practically overflowing—and smiled.
Turns out, raiding pays better than honest work.
After wiping out a few compounds, his storage ring was almost packed solid with cores.
Sure, most of them were low-tier, but back home they could fuse them into higher-tier cores.
Atlas City's fusion tech had already reached the point where they could synthesize Tier 11 crystal cores. As long as they had enough raw cores, they could crank out a whole batch of Tier 11 Enhanced.
Yamato probably didn't have fusion technology yet. Otherwise these compounds wouldn't be sitting on mountains of cores like this. Worked out nicely for him.
And even though Yamato's population was "only" a bit over a hundred million, the land area was tiny. The population density was way higher than the Atlas Federation's.
