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

of the soldiers that was obviously here to make

soldier introduced himself with a voice

other guards that wanted to make a good

quickly gave this

of soldiers that wanted to impress their superiors was dubbed

done introducing themselves, the

half seemed nervous to

and masked people dubbed

the last student was done introducing themselves, no one

officer

took the initiative, but he didn't say

said that he was here to

fake names and seemingly random reasons for why they were

disgusted by the clear disrespect coming from

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

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

was around 185 centimeters tall and had long black hair. He wore a black mask with elaborate designs that only revealed his

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

identity. I don't want to drag my family

tall, had short black hair, and

as massive as Zero's sword, but it was just

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

the soldiers threw curious

a masked individual tried not

What was his plan?

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

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

the other groups of soldiers dubbed the group of masked

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

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

minutes into the explanation, the group left the Wild Forest

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

group of people definitely didn't feel easy to

later, the

later, the group passed another

talk to each

weaker-willed soldiers stopped

so long at such speeds was draining their