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

the Sense 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 Mana, but this time,

fact, all of them

Urbring Family to

the first family to

the second family to the edge

Shang thought. 'No one can enter this area without being noticed

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

his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side

Enforcer investigates the Urbring Family and finds out about his secret, the Patriarch and the leaders

lot of scheming

Shang easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles and entered the gigantic

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

random place in the forest

Expansion Magic Circles in his surroundings "light up" one after the

Master was making sure that no one was

he opened his eyes and began to

WHOOOM!

the forest and ground below him for about a

SHING!

And vanished.

hole appeared. It looked like a crater, but it curved to the side after a couple

a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even

Shang quietly came closer.

Master entered

Master passed by the entrance, Shang

his Spirit Sense,

the

Nothing.

entire entrance now from within the cave, and there was

reason, he was still nervous and

at everything with his Spirit Sense, but

about the cave seemed different, but

He was right.

was something different about the

but that was not something a normal person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his Spirit Sense, he would be even less

Master didn't notice that the source of the

the Treasury Master turned to the

hiding the entrance to the

turned and traveled

got, the darker

him, a wall of pure blackness

became more and more nervous the

the sweaty back of his

was breathing

around several times out

around, he still felt like

nervous because he knew what would happen if anyone

was simply the nervousness of

reached