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."

all the soldiers, even though they were loudly

was obviously here

a voice brimming with confidence and

that wanted to make a good impression spoke

quickly gave this

the group of soldiers that wanted

were done introducing

half seemed nervous to speak to so many

and masked people dubbed this group

last student was done introducing themselves, no one spoke

officer shouted from

one of the bandits took the initiative,

name and said that he was

names and seemingly

clear disrespect coming from these

three masked individuals, which were, by

mask. I have no interest in being scouted by any faction. I don't care about your beliefs. I don't

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

gigantic, curved sword. It was wide and was seemingly made of rough, black stone. His weapon oozed

can call me One. I'm also here to earn money, and I'm wearing a mask because I don't want people to find out my identity. I don't want to drag my

black hair, and wore a blank, black mask, which covered

as massive as Zero's sword, but it was just as long.

for the money, and I'm wearing a mask because I don't want my former

soldiers threw curious glances at

with the very identity that a masked individual tried not

What was his plan?

wore a

a rather short, black spear. In comparison to most spears, it didn't have a wide head, making it resemble a giant needle more than a

groups of soldiers

to all of you!" the officer shouted from the front. "Now that we all know each other, I will be telling you about your job

continued running, the officer introduced everyone to the history of the battlefield and

the group left the Wild Forest and entered

some of the soldiers noticed some weaker General Stage beasts

this group of people definitely didn't feel

hour later, the group passed a

later, the group

the soldiers began to talk to each other while

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

for so long at such speeds was draining their