Chapter 969 - Reaching The Coal Fell Town (1/2)

Having dealt with the situation at the Iron Bull city, Lin Mu headed to the Fell Coal Village immediately. As much as he wanted to help them a bit more in calming the chaos, he knew that he didn't have the time for it.

'I'll have to let the alliance handle them later. Thankfully, Tie Niu told me about the token and its uses.' Lin Mu thought to himself.

Lin Mu had taken the command tokens from Tie Niu's ring. There were several of them with a different level of authority. The one that was the highest one gave one the same authority as that of Tie Niu and would be considered the mayor.

Other than Tie Niu, no one could hold it unless the current mayor was dead. And Since Lin Mu was holding it back then, the guards all considered him on the same level as Tie Niu.

As for the one that he had shown the shopkeeper: Old Lu, that was a rank below the highest one. It was the highest ranked token that could be given to others, and only a couple of Tie Niu's trusted people had that.

And both of those people were killed by Lin Mu's hand, giving him those as well. He had gotten a sufficient amount of fortune from the people he killed today here and it would seem that they were getting a lot of resources from Gu Yao, considering their position.

Though Lin Mu was only that much anxious about it.

'If Gu Yao can continue to provide these many resources, then there must be a source. Did them crippling their supply lines not work?' Lin Mu wondered.

He continued to fly according to the location he had gotten and reached the Coal Fell village soon.

”So this is Coal Fell Village…” Lin Mu gazed upon the village from far up, not finding anything unique about it.

His spirit sense swept the village and checked for anything suspicious.

”Nothing here… the people are all commoners, with just a couple of warriors reaching the sixth stage of the Body tempering realm.” Lin Mu confirmed.

Having checked this, Lin Mu went to look for the location that was more important, the old coal mine.

Lin Mu found the coal mine about twenty kilometers away, tucked away in a barren patch of land. This coal mine was directly on the ground, with no hill or mountain attached to it.

From what Lin Mu could see, it went down in a spiral pattern, and any coal that was dug from it was brought up on these spiral paths. Though there was also a pulley tripod in the middle of the hole which was broken for a long time.

The coal mine had been depleted for the most part, and the empire had stopped mining here. Now only the nearby villagers mined there for coal that they needed for their daily use. Which also made it the perfect place for someone to hide.

Till a few years ago, there were bandits that would make this place their hideout, but the empire would regularly wipe them out. But now, it seemed like Gu Yao had done his magic and no one checked there.

'Though it might also be the stronger cultivators… those bandits would never hold a candle to these experts.' Lin Mu thought to himself.