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

that was obviously

himself with a voice brimming

wanted to make a good impression spoke up, introducing

former bandits and masked people quickly

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

the Bootlickers were done introducing themselves,

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

bandits and masked people dubbed this

done introducing themselves, no one spoke

you to introduce yourselves," the officer shouted from

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

said that he

names and

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

was time for the three masked individuals, which were, by

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

centimeters tall and had long black hair. He wore a black

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

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 this conflict. Just like the person before me, you won't see me again as soon

tall, had short black hair, and wore a blank, black

wasn't nearly as massive as Zero's sword, but it was just as long. His weapon spoke of a battle style

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

curious glances at the last

very identity that a masked individual tried not to be

What was his plan?

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

his back was a rather short, black spear. In comparison to most spears, it didn't have a wide head, making it

the other groups of soldiers dubbed the group of

all know each other,

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

left the Wild Forest and entered the wilderness of the Ice Wyvern

on, some of the soldiers noticed some weaker General Stage beasts from

of people definitely didn't feel easy

later, the group passed

hour later, the group passed another

the past hours, many of the soldiers began to talk to each other

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

their concentration, and they didn't want to talk