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.

a new one,' Shang

would have already

fact, all of them

the Urbring Family to the

first family

from the second family to the edge

made a triangle of Sense Expansion Magic Circle,' Shang thought. 'No one can enter this area without

since 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

is suspecting his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side with his Treasury Master, or they might directly contact the Enforcers, which might prompt an

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

was a lot of scheming happening on

easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles and entered

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

reached a seemingly random place

Sense Expansion Magic Circles in his surroundings "light up"

Master was making sure that no one

eyes and began to cast a

WHOOOM!

all the forest and ground below him for

SHING!

And vanished.

appeared. It looked like a crater, but it

very expensive Isolation Barrier working together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle. That's a lot of money just to hide the entrance to

Shang quietly came closer.

Master entered the

Treasury Master passed by the entrance,

Master couldn't see Shang with his Spirit Sense, but for some reason, he felt nervous and

instant, the

Nothing.

entire entrance now from

he was still nervous and

with his Spirit Sense, but he also looked around

the cave seemed different, but

He was right.

was something different about

would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his Spirit Sense, he would be even

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

Master turned to the entrance and cast another long

Magic Circles activated again, hiding the entrance to

Master turned and traveled deeper into

he got, the darker

him, a wall of pure blackness seemed to follow

and

sweaty back of

like something was

several times out of nervousness, but there was nothing

turning around, he still felt like

he was this nervous because he knew

was simply the nervousness of doing

reached a brightly