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

on his way to the first family would have already

of them

the Urbring Family to the first

the first family

the second family to

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

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

the Patriarch probably 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

and finds out about his

of scheming happening on

Shang easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic

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

reached a seemingly random place in the forest and closed his

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

Treasury Master was making sure that

opened his eyes and began

WHOOOM!

the forest and ground below him for about a hundred meters

SHING!

And vanished.

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

together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle. That's

Shang quietly came closer.

Master entered

passed by the entrance, Shang also entered just behind

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

instant, the Treasury Master turned

Nothing.

from within the cave, and there was just

he was still nervous

Sense, but he also looked around with

different, but he couldn't tell

He was right.

was something different about the

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

the source of the slight

turned to the entrance and cast

Magic Circles activated again, hiding the

and traveled deeper into the

got, the darker everything

but behind him, a wall

Treasury Master became more and more nervous the further he

the sweaty

something was breathing

Treasury Master turned around several times out of nervousness, but there

he still felt

nervous because he knew

the nervousness of doing something he knew was

the Treasury Master reached