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 charging

soldiers that was

a voice brimming with

wanted to make

bandits and masked people quickly gave

the group of soldiers that wanted to

were done introducing themselves, the students came

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

bandits and masked

the last student was done introducing

to introduce yourselves," the officer shouted

one of the bandits took the

name and said that he

giving out fake names and seemingly random

clear disrespect coming from these barbarians, which

masked individuals,

which is why I'm wearing a mask. I have 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

tall and had long

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

I don't want people to find out my identity. I don't want to drag my family into this

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

massive as Zero's sword, but it was just as long. His weapon spoke of a battle style that preferred speed and quick but

of the other two and will take on the name Two. I'm here for the money, and I'm wearing a mask because I

threw curious glances at

the very identity that a masked individual tried not to be associated

What was his plan?

medium-long black hair, was around 180cm tall, and wore a star-shaped, black mask that only revealed his mouth and

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

other groups of soldiers dubbed the

we all know each other, I will be telling you about your

running, the officer introduced everyone to the history of the battlefield and what had happened in it ever since

minutes into the explanation, the group left the Wild Forest and entered the wilderness of the Ice Wyvern

the soldiers noticed some weaker General Stage beasts

this group of people definitely didn't feel easy

the group passed a

later, the group

soldiers began to talk to each other while the officer briefed

the weaker-willed soldiers

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