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,' Shang

dropped on his way to the first family would have already stopped

of them

from the Urbring Family to the first

the first family to

to the

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

a short absence wouldn't even be noticed. On top of that, the other Treasury

suspecting his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury

about his

lot of scheming happening on both

by the Sense Expansion Magic

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

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

Expansion Magic Circles in his surroundings "light up" one

Master was making sure that no one

his eyes and began to cast

WHOOOM!

below him for about a hundred

SHING!

And vanished.

It looked like a crater, but it curved to the side after a

and an even better

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered

by the entrance,

with his Spirit Sense, but

the Treasury

Nothing.

entrance now from within

some reason, he was

Sense,

about the cave seemed different, but he couldn't

He was right.

was something different about

but that was not something a normal person would notice, and since

Master didn't notice that the source of the slight illumination always came

turned to the entrance and cast another long

Magic Circles activated again, hiding the

Master turned and traveled

he got,

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

more and

the sweaty

felt like something was breathing down

Treasury Master turned around several times out of nervousness, but there was nothing

still felt like something was behind

because he knew what would happen

nervousness of doing something

the Treasury Master reached a