Walker Of The Worlds

~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.

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

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

accusing the mercenaries that 'HE' himself had recruited. The mayor had of course tried to flip the directive onto the mercenary

had the support of the king of the Shuang Qian kingdom, and even the Tri cauldron peony

Royal court of the Shuang Qian kingdom. Investigators were

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

not punished he was merely asked to restrain himself till the investigation

had even expected that lieutenant Wu Teng would be infuriated and would not comply easily seeing that his marriage was being delayed. But

him, spoke of him enjoying his time at one of the pleasure pavilions of Wu Lim city, much to the displeasure of his fiancee and the tri cauldron peony sect. The other powers were able to guess certain aspects from this and realized that the relationship between the mayor and the Tri cauldron peony sects wasn't as good as he was

Mu was a bit overwhelmed by hearing the entire thing and did not know why Hei Wen was even telling him

He said,

certifies you to receive all this information and they think they have the responsibility to tell you this. This is something you will experience more in the future; when one has power, people flock to him and

another reminder to Lin Mu about how his situation had changed greatly, and he was not the same orphan he was in

Mu to his previous lowly identity of a peasant was slowly

ceremonies associated with it were not fully stopped. The ones such as the competition would still take place,

minimum time period. She told him to be ready, as there were likely