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,'

the Sense Expansion Magic Circle the Treasury Master had dropped on his way to the first family would have already stopped

of them were still

the Urbring Family to the first

from the first

the second family to

made a triangle of Sense Expansion Magic Circle,' Shang thought. 'No one can enter

nearly every time, a short absence wouldn't even be noticed. On top of that, the other Treasury Masters would even back

Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side with

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

lot of scheming happening on both

the Sense Expansion Magic Circles and

keep up with him. As long as

seemingly random place in the forest and

Magic Circles in his surroundings

making sure that no one was

opened his eyes and began to cast a

WHOOOM!

him for about

SHING!

And vanished.

a crater, but it curved to the side after a

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

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered the

passed by the entrance, Shang also entered

Spirit Sense, but for some reason,

the

Nothing.

from within the cave, and

he was still nervous and

his Spirit Sense, but he also

seemed different, but he

He was right.

different

were slightly more illuminated than normal, but that was not something a normal person would notice, and since

that the source of the slight illumination always came

the entrance and

activated again, hiding the entrance

turned and traveled deeper into the

deeper he got,

didn't see it, but behind him, a wall of pure blackness seemed to

and more

rubbed the sweaty back of

was breathing

several times out of nervousness, but

turning around, he still felt like something

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

nervousness of doing something he

reached a brightly