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."

reached all the soldiers, even though they were loudly

was obviously here to

soldier introduced himself with a voice brimming with

him, the other guards that wanted to make a good

and masked people quickly gave this group of soldiers a

soldiers that wanted to impress their superiors was dubbed the

Bootlickers were done introducing themselves, the students

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

and masked

the last student was done introducing themselves,

yourselves," the officer shouted

the initiative, but he

an obviously fake name and said that he

suit, giving out fake names and seemingly random reasons for why

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

it was time for the three masked individuals, which were, by far, the smallest

here to earn money, 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

and had long black hair. He wore a black mask with elaborate

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

don't want people to find out my identity. I

masked individual was around 175 centimeters tall, had short black hair, and wore a blank,

only one edge. It wasn't nearly as massive as Zero's sword,

name Two. I'm here for the money, and I'm wearing a

threw curious glances at the

introduced himself with the very identity that a

What was his plan?

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

comparison to most spears, it didn't have a wide head, making it resemble

of soldiers

you!" the officer shouted from the front. "Now that we all know each other, I will be

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

Wild Forest and entered the wilderness of the

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

group of people

hour later, the group passed

later, the group

talk

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

draining their