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

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

fact, all of them were still

from the Urbring Family

line from the first family to the

the second family to the edge of the Urbring

made a triangle of Sense Expansion Magic Circle,' Shang thought. 'No one can enter this area without

other Treasury Masters for several minutes nearly every time, a short absence wouldn't even be noticed. On top

show too openly that he is suspecting his own Treasury Master of hiding something. The other Treasury Masters might actually

the Urbring 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 Circles and entered

with him. As long as he didn't use one Mana Step after the other, Shang had no trouble

random place in the forest and closed his

Magic Circles in

Treasury Master was making sure that no one was

and

WHOOOM!

the forest and ground below him

SHING!

And vanished.

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

very expensive Isolation Barrier working together with a high-grade Illusion Magic Circle and an even better Cloaking Magic Circle. That's a lot of money just

Shang quietly came closer.

Treasury Master entered the

the

Spirit Sense, but for some reason, he felt

the Treasury Master turned

Nothing.

the entire entrance now from within the cave, and there was

he was still nervous and looked

looking at everything with his Spirit Sense,

different, but

He was right.

something different about

but that was not something a normal person would notice, and since the Treasury Master relied on his Spirit Sense, he would be even less likely to notice

of the slight illumination always came

Master turned to the entrance

Magic Circles activated again, hiding

turned and traveled

got, the darker everything

didn't see it, but behind him, a

Master became more and more nervous the

sweaty back of his

like something was

around several times out of nervousness, but there

while turning around, he still felt like

was this nervous because he knew what would happen if anyone found out about

was simply the nervousness of doing something he knew was

the Treasury Master reached a brightly