Discovery

Clang clang clang!

The mine overseer struck the copper bell, and the giant miners, weary from a hard day's work, emerged from the tunnels one after another.

They ran to the wooden sheds outside for dinner.

The mine did not treat these laborers, who did the hardest and heaviest work, poorly. Besides filling rye bread, there was grilled beast meat and great barrels of ale.

Covered head to toe in mine dust, the miners sat at long tables, tearing into bread, wolfing down meat, and drinking cup after cup of ale.

The atmosphere was exceedingly lively.

At this time, the guards responsible for watching over the mine also relaxed their vigilance. Aside from a few sentries, the rest sat elsewhere to enjoy a better meal.

Night had fallen, and bonfires blazed throughout the mine, their roaring light illuminating vast stretches of ground.

Concealed in the darkness, Gao Jing silently released Nine-Wing.

The Spirit Gu spread its wings and flew lightly and swiftly toward the mine tunnels, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

To the giants, Nine-Wing in its unenhanced state was about the size of a mosquito. Even if they happened to notice it, they would not take it seriously.

After all, the mountains had mosquitoes as numerous as ox hairs, with all manner of strange and varied species.

Nine-Wing was utterly inconspicuous among them.

It flew safely into the mine tunnel and began searching under Gao Jing's direction.

This Mithril Mine had clearly been discovered only recently, so the tunnels secretly excavated by the Greywing Tribe were not very deep, and the environment inside was not complicated.

That instead left Gao Jing somewhat disappointed.

He guessed that the Greywing Tribe's mining area contained a passage connecting to the Underworld. Based on past experience, if such