Sword God in a World of Magic

The officer looked at the student. "Does this answer your question?"

The student nodded and stepped back.

The student hadn't thought that these three masked men were most likely traitors from Duke Mithril's side.

Their status also explained their need for a mask.

Everyone hated traitors, no matter to which faction they belonged. Someone that backstabbed their home was very easy to hate.

One of the masked men slightly lifted his hand in a nonchalant fashion.

The officer gestured for him to speak.

The man looked at the student. "Not everyone wearing a mask is wearing one because of the reason you might think."

"Some of us are just not interested in getting embroiled in politics."

"We are here to do our job. Nothing more, nothing less."

The man stepped back and went silent again.

"Of course," the officer said with a smile.

Then, the officer took out his spear and turned around. "We need to get going. We have to reach our goal by nightfall. Since we don't have much time to spare, I will be dealing with all the different beasts we find."

The group of soldiers gathered their things and prepared themselves.

Then, the officer charged forward at an impressive pace, and the soldiers followed behind him.

All of the soldiers were running at around 80kph, which wasn't their top speed, but still very tiresome.

This was probably a test from the officer to see which of his soldiers were worth anything.

The group ran towards the northwest, completely ignoring the road, and after just a bit, they had already entered the Wild Forest.

Some of the students became nervous. The group was charging through the wilderness without any care for safety. This was far too reckless!

However, the other warriors didn't care.

They were 30 warriors at the General Stage. The only thing that could endanger them was a Late General Stage beast or stronger, and those didn't exist this far to the north of the Wild Forest.

"Why don't we introduce ourselves while we run?" the officer shouted from the front. "Let me start. I'm Lance, and I'm a sergeant in Duke Whirlwind's personal army."

reached all the soldiers, even though

of the soldiers that was obviously here to

introduced himself with a voice

that wanted to make a good impression spoke up,

bandits and masked people quickly gave this group

group of soldiers that wanted to impress

Bootlickers were done introducing themselves, the students

the other half seemed nervous to

bandits and masked people dubbed

last student was done introducing themselves, no one spoke

you to introduce yourselves," the officer shouted

of the bandits took the initiative, but

gave an obviously fake name and said that he was here

fake names and seemingly random

Bootlickers and Rookies were disgusted by the clear disrespect coming from these barbarians, which gave this

for the three masked

no interest in being scouted by any faction. I don't care about your beliefs. I don't care about your promises. I'll do my job, and you won't

that had just introduced himself, Zero, was around 185 centimeters tall and had long

wide and was seemingly made of rough, black stone. His

because I don't want people to find out my identity. I

175 centimeters tall, had short black hair, and wore a blank, black mask, which covered his

with only one edge. It wasn't nearly as massive as Zero's sword, but it was just as long. His

will take on the name Two. I'm here for the money, and

threw curious glances at

the very identity that a masked individual tried

What was his plan?

was around 180cm tall, and wore

his back was a rather short, black spear. In comparison to most spears, it didn't have a wide head, making it resemble

the other groups of soldiers dubbed the group of masked

all know each other, I

everyone to the history of the battlefield and what had happened in it ever since the Ice Wyvern had taken over the

the explanation, the group left the Wild Forest and entered

on, some of the soldiers noticed some weaker General Stage beasts from time to time, but none of the beasts

weren't stupid, and this group of people definitely didn't feel

the

the group

the soldiers began to talk to each other while the officer briefed everyone from the

later, some of the weaker-willed soldiers stopped talking as they concentrated on

was draining their concentration, and they