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

next," one of the soldiers that was obviously here

soldier introduced himself with a

that wanted to make

former bandits and masked people quickly gave this

this day forth, the group of soldiers that wanted to impress their superiors was

were done introducing

but the other half seemed nervous

and masked people dubbed this

done introducing themselves, no one

yourselves," the officer shouted from

one of the bandits took the initiative, but he didn't

and said that he

names

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

for the three masked individuals, which were,

and I hate politics, 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.

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

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

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 family into

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

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

the soldiers threw curious glances at the

introduced himself with the very identity that a masked

What was his plan?

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

it didn't have a wide

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

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

the Wild Forest and entered the wilderness of the

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

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

the group passed

hour later, the group passed another

many of the soldiers began to talk to each other

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

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