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

the Treasury Master had dropped on his way to the first family would have already stopped working since they would have already used up all their stored Mana,

fact, all of them were

Urbring Family

from the first family

to the

Magic Circle,' Shang thought. 'No

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 his claim up. He did talk to them,

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

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

lot of scheming happening on both

easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles and

up with him. As long as he didn't use one Mana Step after

Treasury Master reached a seemingly random place in the forest

the Sense Expansion Magic Circles in his surroundings

Master was making sure that no

he opened his eyes and began to cast a long

WHOOOM!

all the forest and ground below him for about a

SHING!

And vanished.

It looked like a crater, but it curved to

even

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered

as the Treasury Master passed by the

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

an instant, the Treasury

Nothing.

now from within the

he was still

Spirit Sense, but he also looked around with his

the cave seemed different, but

He was right.

was something different about

and since the Treasury Master relied on his Spirit Sense, he would be

the slight illumination always came from a bit

to the entrance and cast another

again, hiding the entrance to

and

deeper he got, the darker

but behind him, a wall of pure blackness seemed to

and more nervous

the sweaty

something was breathing down

Treasury Master turned around several times out

he still felt like something

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

was simply the nervousness of doing

reached a