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

to the first family would have already stopped working since they would have already used up all their stored Mana, but

fact, all of them were still

the Urbring Family to

the first

from the second family to the edge

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

absence wouldn't even be noticed. On top of that, the other Treasury Masters would even back his claim up. He did talk to them,

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

investigates the Urbring Family and finds out about his

lot of scheming

the Sense Expansion Magic Circles

with him. As long as he didn't use

reached a seemingly random place in the forest

Sense Expansion Magic Circles in his surroundings "light up"

Treasury Master was making sure that no one

opened his eyes and began

WHOOOM!

forest and ground below him for

SHING!

And vanished.

but it curved to the

even better Cloaking Magic

Shang quietly came closer.

Master entered

the entrance, Shang also entered

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

instant, the Treasury

Nothing.

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

some reason, he was

Spirit Sense, but he also looked around

different, but he couldn't tell

He was right.

was something different about the

notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his

that the source of the slight illumination always came from a bit behind

the entrance and cast another

activated again, hiding the entrance to

and traveled

he got, the darker

see it, but behind him, a wall of

became more and more nervous the

sweaty back of his

felt like something was breathing down

around several times out of nervousness, but there was

he still felt like something was

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

the nervousness of doing something he knew was

Master reached a