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."

even though they were

of the soldiers that was obviously here to make a

introduced himself with a voice brimming with confidence

guards that wanted to make a

masked people quickly gave this group of

the group of soldiers that wanted to impress their superiors was

done introducing themselves, the students

smart, but the other half seemed

masked people dubbed this

done introducing themselves,

yourselves," the officer shouted from

the bandits took the initiative,

gave an obviously fake name and said that he

giving out fake names and seemingly random

coming from these barbarians, which

masked individuals, which were, by far, the

have no interest in being scouted

had long black hair. He

back, he wore a gigantic, curved sword. It was wide and was seemingly made of rough, black

earn money, and I'm wearing a mask because I don't want people to find out my identity. I don't want to

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

back was a long, slightly curved sword with only one edge. It wasn't nearly as massive as Zero's sword, but it was just as long. His weapon spoke of

the money, and I'm wearing a

of the soldiers threw curious

the very identity that a masked individual tried not to be

What was his plan?

black hair, was around 180cm tall, and wore a

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

introduction, the other groups of soldiers dubbed the group

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

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

into the explanation, the group left the Wild

some of the soldiers noticed some weaker General Stage beasts from time

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

the group

the group passed another

to talk to

of the weaker-willed soldiers stopped talking as they concentrated on keeping

for so long at such speeds was draining their concentration, and they