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."

the soldiers, even though they were loudly charging through the

go next," one of the soldiers that was obviously here to

introduced himself with a voice brimming with confidence and

the other guards that wanted to make a

quickly gave this

of soldiers that wanted to impress their

done introducing themselves,

and smart, but the other half seemed nervous to speak to so many foreign people while

and masked people dubbed

the last student was done introducing themselves,

officer shouted

took the initiative, but he didn't say

and said that he was

suit, giving out fake names and seemingly random reasons for

by the clear disrespect coming from these barbarians, which gave this group the

masked individuals, which were, by

being scouted by any faction. I don't care about your beliefs. I don't care about your

himself, Zero, was around 185 centimeters tall and had long black hair. He wore a black mask with

and was seemingly made of rough, black stone. His weapon oozed violence

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

had short black hair,

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

the other two and will take on the name Two. I'm here for the money, and I'm wearing a mask because I don't want

soldiers threw curious glances at the

introduced himself with the very identity that a masked individual tried not to be

What was his plan?

around 180cm tall, and wore a

comparison to most spears, it

soldiers dubbed the

extend one more welcome to all of you!" the officer shouted from the front. "Now that we all know each other, I

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

the Wild Forest and entered the wilderness of the

noticed some weaker General Stage beasts

this group of people definitely didn't feel easy to

later, the group passed

hour later, the group

to talk to each other while the officer briefed everyone

hours later, some of the weaker-willed soldiers

so long at such speeds was draining their concentration, and they didn't want