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

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, they were still

all of them were

Urbring

first family to

to the edge of the Urbring

Sense Expansion Magic Circle,' Shang thought. 'No one can enter

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

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

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

of scheming happening

easily passed by the Sense Expansion

faster than before, but Shang could still keep up with him. As long

the Treasury Master reached a seemingly random

the Sense Expansion Magic Circles in his

making sure that no one was

and began

WHOOOM!

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

SHING!

And vanished.

the forest and ground vanished, a deep hole appeared. It looked like a crater, but it curved to the side

expensive Isolation Barrier working together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even

Shang quietly came closer.

Master

passed by the entrance, Shang

couldn't see Shang with his Spirit Sense, but for some reason,

an instant, the Treasury Master turned

Nothing.

entrance now from within the cave, and there

was

his Spirit Sense, but he also looked around

the cave seemed different, but he couldn't tell

He was right.

something different

illuminated than normal, but that was not something a normal person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied

source of the slight illumination always came

the Treasury Master turned to the entrance and cast

activated again, hiding the entrance

Treasury Master turned and traveled deeper into the

deeper he got, the

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

Master became more and more nervous the

sweaty back of his

felt like something was breathing down his

times out of nervousness, but there was nothing

he still felt like something was

that he was this nervous because he knew what would happen if anyone

simply the nervousness of doing something he knew was

the Treasury Master reached a brightly lit