Chapter 449: The Desolate Mercenary Union (1/2)

Lin Mu was standing in front of a rather broad building that had two smaller buildings attached to it at the sides.

The name board hanging on top of it read: Mercenary Union (Shuang Qian Kingdom Branch)

Lin Wu looked around but found the building to be rather empty. There were barely any people here and even the mercenaries seemed to be missing.

”This is strange…” Lin Mu muttered to himself before stepping inside.

Currently, there was only one clerk sitting on the desk at the corner. The main desks were empty and even dust had settled on them now. Lin Mu walked to the clerk sitting on the desk and coughed lightly.

The clerk himself was busy reading something intently.

”Ahem,” Lin Mu coughed to get his attention.

”Oh? Someone's actually here.” The clerk said feeling a bit shocked.

”Why is this place so empty?” Lin Mu questioned.

Upon hearing this question, a frustrated expression appeared on the clerk's face.

”Are you here to make fun of us?” The clerk replied.

”What? No! Why would you think that?” Lin Mu asked.

”So you are telling me you've been living under a rock and don't know of the entire fiasco that happened six months ago?” The clerk said getting a bit angry.

”Nope, I've been in seclusion you see… for the past two years.” Lin Mu said before letting out a bit of his spirit Qi.

As soon as the clerk sensed his spirit Qi, he sobered up and a scared expression appeared on his face.

”Fo-forgive me senior! I didn't know of your status.” The clerk said hurriedly.

”It's alright,” Lin Mu said and waved his hand, ”now tell me what actually happened?” he asked again.

~Sigh~

”After the incident in at the Wu Lim City and the blood tide great upheaval happed. Investigations were done, and the culprit was found to be a person called Lin Mu.

Originally, the Mayor of the Wu Lim City, Wu Xun and the mercenary union were at odds due to the false accusation that he had put on us. But then the involvement of Lin Mu flipped the entire thing on us.

The sects and other powers found out that when they had sent out people to investigate the kidnappings, this person called Lin Mu had actually accompanied them. This basically caused them to reject all of the findings and they claimed that the evidence was all fabricated.

The current head of the mercenary union had used the royal decree to ask the king to question Mayor Wu Xun. But after he found out about this all, he canceled the decree and levied sanctions on the mercenary union.

Ever since then the reputation of the mercenary union plummeted and people started accusing us of being traitors, although they had no proof of it.

Little by little most of the mercenaries left the union and a majority have even left Shuang Qian kingdom itself.” The clerk said.

Lin Mu's eyes went wide as he had not expected there to be such a story behind this and even in this somehow his involvement was there. But soon anger appeared in his heart too as he could imagine why Gu Yao or Wu Xun must have done this.