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

first family would have already stopped working

fact, all of them were still

line from the Urbring Family to the

the first family to the

line from the second family to the edge of the

Shang thought. 'No one

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

show too openly that he is suspecting his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side

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

of scheming

Sense Expansion Magic

with him. As long

a seemingly random place

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

sure

he opened his eyes and began

WHOOOM!

all the forest and ground below him for about a hundred meters brightly lit

SHING!

And vanished.

but it curved to the side after a couple hundred meters, essentially making it a

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 the entrance to a

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered

the Treasury Master passed by the

Spirit Sense, but for some reason,

an instant, the Treasury

Nothing.

entrance now from within

reason, he was

everything with his Spirit Sense, but he also

different, but he couldn't

He was right.

was something different

person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied

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

the Treasury Master turned to the entrance and

Circles activated again, hiding

Master turned and

got,

but behind him, a wall of pure blackness seemed

Treasury Master became more and more nervous

sweaty back of

like something was breathing down

out of nervousness, but there

still felt like something

himself that he was this nervous because he

was simply the nervousness of

Master reached a brightly