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,'

first family would have already stopped working since they would have already used up all their stored Mana, but

all of them were

the Urbring Family to

first family to

line from the second family to the edge of the Urbring

Circle,' Shang thought.

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

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

and finds out about

lot of scheming happening

easily passed by the Sense Expansion Magic Circles

keep up with him. As long as he didn't use one Mana Step after the

Master reached a seemingly random place in the forest

in his surroundings "light up" one after

was making sure that no one was

opened his eyes and began to cast

WHOOOM!

forest and ground below him for about a hundred meters

SHING!

And vanished.

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

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

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered

Treasury Master passed by the entrance, Shang also entered just

Sense, but for some reason, he felt nervous and

instant, the

Nothing.

entrance now from within the cave,

some reason, he was still nervous and

his Spirit Sense, but he also looked

different, but

He was right.

something different about the

person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his Spirit Sense, he would

notice that the source of the slight illumination always came from a

the entrance

Circles activated again, hiding the entrance to

turned and traveled

got, the

a wall of pure blackness seemed to

and more nervous

the sweaty back

was breathing

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

around, he still felt like something

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

nervousness of doing something he knew

reached a