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

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

all of

from the Urbring Family to the

from the first family

from the second family to the edge

thought. 'No one can enter this

even be noticed. On top of that, the other Treasury Masters would even back his claim up. He did talk to

suspecting his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side with his Treasury Master, or

Urbring Family and finds out about his secret, the

lot of scheming happening on both

Shang easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles

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

Master reached a seemingly random place in the forest and closed his

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

Treasury Master was making sure that no one was

and began

WHOOOM!

ground below him for about

SHING!

And vanished.

It looked like a crater, but it curved

Barrier working together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle.

Shang quietly came closer.

Master entered

Master passed by the entrance, Shang also entered

Sense, but for some reason,

instant, the Treasury

Nothing.

from within the cave,

for some reason, he was still nervous

at everything with his Spirit Sense, but he also looked

different,

He was right.

was something different about

walls were slightly more illuminated than normal, 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

source of the slight

the Treasury Master turned to the entrance and cast

Circles activated again, hiding

and traveled deeper into the

got,

behind him, a wall of pure blackness seemed to

more and more nervous

rubbed the sweaty back

something was

turned around several times out

still felt like something was

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

was simply the nervousness of doing something

the Treasury Master reached