Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang continued watching the Treasury Master for several months.

It was mundane work, but it paid well.

Eventually, over two years passed.

And finally, something suspicious happened.

The Treasury Master left the Urbring Family every three months to travel to a couple of different gatherer families and exchange some wares. This was the very thing that happened the first time Shang had seen the Treasury Master.

Originally, when the Treasury Master left for his regularly scheduled roundtrip, Shang hadn't thought that anything suspicious would happen.

By now, he had been convinced that the Treasury Master was innocent.

Sure, he had once met with an unknown woman to have some fun, which was against the rule of meeting outsiders without informing an Enforcer, but it was just innocent fun. Shang knew that this was not nearly suspicious enough to actually conclude the mission.

The Treasury Master stopped near the first gatherer family, and the two Treasury Masters exchanged Space Rings.

After that, the two of them talked for a bit, which wasn't anything unusual.

It was just some conversation about the two families.

Some minutes later, the Treasury Master took out a Communication Crystal and informed the Treasury Master of the next family he was supposed to visit.

He told them that he was having a conversation right now and that he would arrive a couple of minutes late.

It was all very casual.

The two of them continued talking for about two more minutes before the Treasury Master left again.

A couple of minutes later, the Treasury Master reached the next family and exchanged Space Rings.

And then, another long conversation happened.

The Treasury Master took out his Communication Crystal again and called the Patriarch, telling him that he would be late.

This wasn't anything unusual. The Treasury Master enjoyed talking to the other Treasury Masters quite a bit.

Maybe this was why the Patriarch became suspicious.

After all, his Treasury Master always called him about being late. In a way, the Treasury Master was always kind of missing for a couple of minutes.

However, the other families always backed his claim that he was just talking to them.

The Treasury Master kept talking for a couple more minutes before leaving.

As always, the Treasury Master kept throwing the Sense Expansion Magic Circles everywhere while traveling, which was understandable. After all, he was carrying a lot of wealth with him.

Nothing unusual.

'Oh?'

Suddenly, the Treasury Master stopped and threw the Magic Circles toward his front.

And then, he took a sharp right.

new one,' Shang

Expansion Magic Circle the Treasury Master had dropped on his way to the first family would have already stopped working since they would have already used up all their stored

fact, all of them were still

Urbring Family

the first family to the

second family to the edge of

Expansion Magic Circle,' Shang thought. 'No one can enter this area without being

he keeps talking with so many other Treasury Masters for several minutes nearly every time, a short absence wouldn't even be noticed. On top of that, the other Treasury Masters would even back his claim up. He

something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side with his Treasury Master, or they might directly contact the Enforcers, which

the Urbring Family and finds out about his secret, the Patriarch and the leaders would be

a lot of

passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles

could still keep up with him. As long as he didn't use one Mana Step after the other, Shang had

seemingly random place in

in his surroundings "light up" one

Treasury Master was making sure that no

opened his eyes and began

WHOOOM!

all the forest and ground below him for about a hundred meters brightly lit

SHING!

And vanished.

looked like a crater, but it curved to the

with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered the

by the entrance, Shang also entered just behind

Sense, but

instant, the Treasury Master

Nothing.

Master saw the entire entrance now from within the cave, and there was just

for some reason, he was still nervous and

at everything with his Spirit Sense, but he

different,

He was right.

different about the

a normal person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his Spirit Sense,

Treasury Master didn't notice that the source of the slight illumination always came from

to the entrance and cast another long

again, hiding the entrance to the

Master turned and traveled deeper

deeper he got, the

see it, but behind him, a wall of pure blackness

Master became more and more nervous the further he

rubbed the sweaty back of his

was breathing down his

Treasury Master turned around several times out of nervousness, but

around, he still felt like something

convinced himself that he was this nervous because he knew what would

nervousness of doing something he knew

the Treasury Master reached