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,'

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

fact, all of

line from the Urbring Family to

the first family

line from the second family to

Shang thought. 'No one can enter this area without

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

can't show 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

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

a lot of

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

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

Treasury Master reached a seemingly random place in the forest and closed

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

Treasury Master was making sure that no

and began to cast a

WHOOOM!

below him for about a hundred meters brightly lit

SHING!

And vanished.

ground vanished, a deep hole appeared. It looked like a crater, but it curved

Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle. That's a lot of money just to hide

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master

by the entrance, Shang

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

the Treasury Master

Nothing.

entire entrance now from

was

Spirit Sense, but he also looked around with his

about the cave seemed different, but he couldn't tell

He was right.

something different about

normal person would notice, and since

the slight illumination always

the

again, hiding

turned and traveled deeper

got, the darker everything

behind him, a wall of

more and more nervous the

the sweaty back

like something was

several times out of nervousness, but there was

around, he still

while, he convinced himself that he was this nervous because he knew what

the nervousness of doing something he knew

the Treasury Master reached a brightly lit