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."

voice reached all the soldiers, even though they were loudly charging

next," one of the soldiers that was obviously here to make a good impression shouted.

a voice brimming with confidence

other guards that wanted to make

masked people quickly gave this group of soldiers

day forth, the group of soldiers that wanted to

introducing

and smart, but the other half seemed nervous to speak to so many foreign people while charging through

bandits and masked people dubbed this group

last student was done introducing themselves, no one spoke for

officer shouted from the front with a

bandits took the initiative, but he

said that he was here

fake names and seemingly random

and Rookies were disgusted by the clear disrespect coming from

was time for the three masked individuals,

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

had long black hair. He wore a black mask with

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

I don't want

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

nearly as massive as Zero's sword, but it was just as long. His weapon spoke of a battle style

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

curious glances at the

introduced himself with the very identity that a masked individual tried not to

What was his plan?

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

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

other groups of soldiers dubbed the group

officer shouted from the front. "Now that we all know

the battlefield and what

Wild Forest and entered the wilderness of

Stage beasts from time to time, but none

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

the

later, the

soldiers began to talk to each other while

some of the weaker-willed soldiers stopped talking as they

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