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."

officer's voice reached all the soldiers, even though they were loudly charging through

go next," one of the soldiers that was obviously

soldier introduced himself with a voice brimming with confidence

the other guards that wanted to make

masked people quickly gave this

that wanted to impress their superiors was dubbed the

were done introducing

students managed to appear competent and smart, but the other half seemed nervous to speak to so

former bandits and masked people dubbed this group

done introducing themselves, no one spoke for a

the officer shouted from the

of the bandits took the

obviously fake name and said that he was

names and seemingly random reasons for why they were

were disgusted by the clear disrespect coming

masked individuals,

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. I'll

and had long black hair. He

sword. It was wide and was

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 this conflict. Just like the

175 centimeters tall, had short black hair,

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 name Two. I'm here for the money, and I'm wearing a mask because I don't want

the soldiers threw curious glances at

with the very identity that a masked individual tried

What was his plan?

and wore a star-shaped, black mask that only revealed his

was a rather short, black spear. In comparison to most spears, it didn't

groups of soldiers dubbed

"Now that we all know each other, I will be telling you about your job and your new home for the foreseeable

battlefield and what had happened in it ever since

explanation, the group left the Wild Forest and entered the wilderness of the

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

this group of people definitely didn't feel

later, the

hour later, the group

talk to each other while the officer briefed everyone

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

their concentration, and they didn't want to