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,' Shang

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, but this time, they were

all of them were

Urbring Family to the

from the first family to

from the second family to the edge of

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

be noticed. On top of that, the other Treasury Masters would even back

The other Treasury Masters might actually

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

was a lot of scheming happening

Shang easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic

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

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

all the Sense Expansion Magic Circles in

Master was making sure that

and began to

WHOOOM!

forest and ground 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 to the

working together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking

Shang quietly came closer.

Master

Treasury Master passed by the entrance, Shang also

Master couldn't see Shang with his Spirit Sense,

the Treasury Master

Nothing.

Master saw the entire entrance now from

he was still nervous and

Spirit Sense, but he

different, but he

He was right.

something different

something a normal person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on

the slight illumination always came from a bit behind

the Treasury Master turned to the entrance and cast

Magic Circles activated again, hiding the entrance to

and traveled deeper

deeper he got,

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

became more and

rubbed the sweaty back

felt like something was breathing down his

around several times out

even while turning around, he still felt like something was

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

was simply the nervousness of doing something he knew was

reached a