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

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

of

line from the Urbring Family

first family to the second

second family to the edge of the

Circle,' Shang thought. 'No one can enter this area

be noticed. On

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

Urbring Family and finds out about his secret, the

of scheming

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

flew faster than before, but Shang could still keep up with him. As long as he didn't use one Mana Step

Treasury Master reached a seemingly random place in

Magic Circles in his

sure

he opened his eyes and began to cast a long

WHOOOM!

ground below him for about

SHING!

And vanished.

deep hole appeared. It looked like a crater, but it curved to the side after

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 the entrance

Shang quietly came closer.

Master

the entrance,

Spirit Sense, but for some reason,

an instant, the

Nothing.

entrance now from within the cave, and

was still

looking at everything with his Spirit Sense, but he also looked

the cave seemed different, but he

He was right.

was something different about the

that was not something a normal person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his Spirit

that the source of the slight illumination always came from a

the Treasury Master turned to the

again, hiding the entrance to the

turned and traveled

he got, the

behind him, a

Treasury Master became more and more nervous the further he

rubbed the sweaty back of

was breathing

around several times out of nervousness, but there was nothing

even while turning around, he still felt like something was

this nervous because he knew what would happen if anyone found

was simply the nervousness of doing something he

the Treasury Master reached