Chapter 308: Politics (1/2)

~Shing~

~Slick~

~Thud~

A large beast's head rolled on the ground as blood splattered to the sides. Lin Mu gestured with his fingers, and his short sword returned to his scabbard.

~Sigh~

A sigh escaped Lin Mu's lips as he witnessed another failure. About four days had passed since Lin Mu set the formation array and bade farewell to Jing Wei and Duan Ke. The two of them had left the town the very night when Lin Mu had met them.

He had not seen them leave but could sense it due to the communication jade that he had. Jing Wei had told Lin Mu had as long as they were within the distance of about a thousand kilometers the communication jade would work. But last night it had finally stopped working and the connection it had was broken.

It was evident from this that they had long left the town or even the kingdom itself, depending on the direction they went.

The day of the competition was getting closer and Lin Mu was still not able to complete one of his smaller goals, which was to practice refining a bloodline to prepare it for assimilation. He had hunted nearly about seventy beasts and was still unable to find a beast with an awakened bloodline.

Still, he was not totally disappointed as another one of his smaller goals had been fulfilled yesterday as well. Yesterday was the day when the large shipment containing the beast meat had arrived for Lin Mu. Hei Wen had sent him a message and had asked him to meet somewhere outside the town.

This was done as the shipment was rather large and they did not want people to know and talk about it, especially with the current political climate. When Lin Mu met yesterday with Hei Wen, he also got to know of some new undercurrents that had arisen in the current situation.

The mercenary union had officially blamed the mayor of the Wu Lim city, Wu Xun for mishandling the incidents that occurred and also for falsely accusing the mercenaries that 'HE' himself had recruited. The mayor had of course tried to flip the directive onto the mercenary union, but the head of the mercenary union did something which was completely unexpected.

He used the royal decree which was issued to them for the services they had rendered to the kingdom. Because of that decree, they now had the support of the king of the Shuang Qian kingdom, and even the Tri cauldron peony sect could not do anything without disturbing the delicate political ecosystem even more.

Of course, this also meant that the wedding had to be forcefully delayed as the mayor was now called in for questioning at the Royal court of the Shuang Qian kingdom. Investigators were also sent to the Wu Lim city and they would be making their rounds around the four towns as well, getting the people's perspective.

Another ironic thing that happened was that the battalion that lieutenant Wu Teng had brought with him had now been ordered by the king to assist in the very investigation. Wu Teng being the son of the Mayor was not allowed to participate under any circumstances and another officer would be sent to take authority over the entire battalion for the time being.

Of course, lieutenant Wu Teng was not punished he was merely asked to restrain himself till the investigation would be completed.

The people had even expected that lieutenant Wu Teng would be infuriated and would not comply easily seeing that his marriage was being delayed. But it was not so, instead he very jovially accepted it and just took it as a vacation.