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

way to the first family would have already stopped working since they would have already used up

fact, all of

from the Urbring Family to the first

line from the first family to

the second family to the edge

Expansion Magic Circle,' Shang thought.

since he keeps talking with so many other Treasury Masters 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

too openly that he is suspecting his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually side with his Treasury Master, or they might directly contact the Enforcers, which might prompt an

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

lot of scheming happening on

always, Shang easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles and entered the gigantic

still keep up with him. As

Master reached a seemingly random place in the forest and

all the Sense Expansion Magic Circles in his

Master was making sure that no one was

opened his eyes and began to

WHOOOM!

all the forest and ground below him for

SHING!

And vanished.

ground vanished, a deep hole appeared. It looked like a crater, but it curved to the side after a couple hundred meters, essentially making

high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master

Treasury Master passed by the entrance, Shang also entered

couldn't see Shang with his Spirit Sense, but for some reason, he felt nervous

an instant, the Treasury Master

Nothing.

now from within the cave, and there was just

was still nervous and

his Spirit Sense,

cave seemed different,

He was right.

something different

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

of the slight illumination always came from a bit

the entrance and cast another long

again, hiding

and traveled deeper into

he got, the

didn't see it, but behind him, a wall

Master became more and more nervous

sweaty back of

felt like something was breathing down

several times out of nervousness,

around, he still felt like something was behind

that he was this nervous because he knew what would happen if

the nervousness of

Master reached a brightly lit