A convoy of twenty Large Cargo Magic Locomotives rolled into the Nam Co Mine in the northwestern Dero Kingdom.
The mine had previously been under the control of the local Dero people. After the Xinfei Merchant Guild entered the Dero Kingdom and invested in it, the two sides established a working partnership, greatly increasing the mine's output.
However, during the riots against outsiders that had swept through almost the entire Dero Kingdom several years earlier, the local Dero claimed that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had stolen their mine. They took bloody revenge on the guild's employees and seized the mine back.
Their triumph did not last long, though. The Xinfei Merchant Guild soon sent its Guards Corps into the Dero Kingdom and crushed the riots with overwhelming force.
Without exception, all the local Dero who had attacked the Xinfei Merchant Guild's employees during the mine riots were arrested by the guild, and a small number were summarily executed. Control of the mine thus naturally fell back into the guild's hands.
Several years had passed since then, and under the Xinfei Merchant Guild's management, the mine had made tremendous progress. Its monthly output had soared from a mere few dozen tons to nearly a thousand.
Apart from a small portion set aside for local merchant guilds in the Dero Kingdom, all the ore extracted here was now loaded onto the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Transport Fleet, carried south to a port in southern Wales, and then shipped by sea to the guild's Main Base for refining.
This was one of the dozens of mines the Xinfei Merchant Guild currently operated across the Sains Continent, and one of those the Xinfei Mining Merchant Guild had never publicly disclosed.
The numerous mineral resources at its disposal, including the Nam Co Mine, were what allowed