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 one,'

Expansion Magic Circle 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,

all of

Urbring Family to

the first

to the edge of the Urbring

Shang thought. 'No one can enter

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

Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side with his Treasury Master, or they might directly contact the Enforcers,

out about his

a lot of scheming happening on

Shang easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles and entered the

Treasury Master flew faster than before, but Shang could still keep up with him. As long as he didn't use one Mana Step after the other, Shang had no

Treasury Master reached a seemingly random

Magic Circles in his surroundings "light up" one after the

sure that

he opened his eyes and began

WHOOOM!

the forest and ground below him for about

SHING!

And vanished.

appeared. It looked like a crater, but it curved to

a very expensive Isolation Barrier working together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle. That's a lot

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered the

as the Treasury Master passed by the

Spirit Sense, but for

the Treasury

Nothing.

from within the cave, and there

reason, he was still nervous

with his Spirit Sense, but he also looked

cave seemed different, but

He was right.

was something different about

notice, and

of the slight illumination always came from

to the

Circles activated again, hiding the entrance to

Master turned and traveled deeper into

deeper he got, the darker

didn't see it, but behind him, a

became more and more nervous

sweaty back of his

was breathing

around several times out

he still felt like

a while, he convinced himself that he was this nervous because

simply the nervousness of doing

the Treasury Master reached a brightly