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

on his way to the first family would have already stopped working since they would have already used up

of them

the Urbring

line from the first family to the

line from the second family to the edge of the

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

other Treasury Masters for several minutes nearly every time, a short absence wouldn't even be noticed. On top

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

Family and finds out about his secret, the

was a lot of scheming happening

Sense Expansion Magic Circles and entered the

As long as he didn't use one Mana Step after the other, Shang had

random

the Sense Expansion Magic Circles in his surroundings "light up"

Treasury Master was making sure

his eyes and

WHOOOM!

the forest and ground below him for about a

SHING!

And vanished.

looked like a crater, but it curved to the side after a couple hundred meters,

Barrier working together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle. That's a lot of

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered the

Master passed by the entrance, Shang also entered

see Shang with his Spirit Sense, but for some reason, he felt nervous

instant, the Treasury Master

Nothing.

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

some reason, he was

everything with his Spirit Sense,

cave seemed different, but

He was right.

something different

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 likely to

that the source of the slight

the entrance and cast another long

again, hiding the entrance to

Master turned and

got,

him, a wall of pure blackness seemed to

more and more nervous

the sweaty back

something was

Treasury Master turned around several times out of nervousness, but there was nothing

even while turning around, he still felt like

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

simply the nervousness of doing

reached a brightly