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

would have already stopped working since they would have already used up all their stored Mana, but this time, they were

of

the Urbring Family to the

line from the first family to the

family to the edge of the Urbring

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

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

the Patriarch probably can't show too openly that he is suspecting his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side with his Treasury Master, or they

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

lot of scheming happening on

Shang easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic

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

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

Expansion Magic Circles in his surroundings "light

sure that

he opened his eyes and

WHOOOM!

him for

SHING!

And vanished.

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

high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle. That's a lot of money just to hide the

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered

passed by the entrance,

his Spirit Sense, but for some reason, he

the

Nothing.

entire entrance now from within the cave, and there

reason, he was still nervous

Spirit Sense, but he also looked

different, but

He was right.

different about

person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his

the slight illumination always came

to the entrance and cast another

activated again, hiding the entrance to

and traveled deeper

he got,

but behind him, a wall of pure blackness seemed to follow

Master became more and more nervous the further he

rubbed the sweaty back of his

like something was

times out of nervousness, but there was

even while turning around, he still felt

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

simply the nervousness of doing something he knew was

Treasury Master reached