Sword God in a World of Magic

Time seemingly froze as Alex's fist hit the young man's nose.

"Argh, fuck!" Alex suddenly shouted as he shook his fist. He looked at it and saw that his index and middle finger were broken.

Alex had just punched the nose of the young man, but it felt like he had punched a nail made of steel!

The young man only smirked viciously. "And that's exactly why I chose you!" he said. By now, his voice sounded calm but arrogant.

Alex looked with shock at the young man.

What the hell was going on?!

"Any normal person," the young man said as he gestured grandly to his hall, "who saw what you have seen would cower before me in fear. Everything I have shown up to now, my power over space, my ability to cut off your leg in an instant, even this very hall would have sent awe, fear, terror, and respect into anyone's heart."

"However!" the man shouted, his voice sounding pleased. "You are not like a normal person. No, you are different."

The man took a step forward as Alex began sweating. His fight or flight instincts kicked in. Usually, he always chose fight, but in this instant, he felt like flight was a better alternative.

"Everyone else would have thrown themselves at my knees, begging me to not play with their lives any longer."

Another step.

"That's so boring," the man said with a neutral expression. "I want excitement, fighting, someone that doesn't take shit from anyone."

"I want chaos!" the man said with a smirk as he looked deeply into Alex's eyes.

Alex gulped.

"Chosen for what?" Alex asked, trying to hide the panic in his voice.

"Chosen to change the world!" the man said with a smirk. Then, he chuckled a bit, turned around, and walked back to his throne, which had just appeared behind him. He sat down and looked at Alex again with a smirk, just like back when Alex had first arrived here.

Alex remained silent for a couple of seconds as he calmed down, trying to analyze the situation.

'Obviously, this isn't a dream. The pain is too real, and now that I take the possibility that this is real into account, I also notice that my thoughts are too orderly. Usually, in a dream, I never notice that it's a dream since a big part of my brain is asleep.'

'I have to throw these preconceived notions of what counts as reality out of my mind and learn to accept that this is all real.'

Alex looked at the man sitting in front of him.

'And that means that he's also real. What is he? He can't be a normal human.'

"Finally, you are actually thinking about your current situation," the man said. "Took you long enough."

Now that Alex was calming down, he also noticed that this man had reacted to his thoughts several times.

this mean that he

the man said. "A mortal human life might be beyond complex for you, but for me, it's not very complicated. Your mind and soul follow rules, and when something follows rules, you can

took a

and he couldn't be sure about

to kill or torture him. Otherwise, the young man wouldn't have spent so

a smirk. "You know that this is reality, and you know that my power far eclipses your own. You know that I could kill you

you are not bowing down or licking my boots," the young man said with a chuckle. "Instead, you are

smirk of the young man widened.

his brows. "Okay, but what happened?"

and leaned back on his throne. "Death," he

Whoom!

the hall vanished as Alex appeared in a

dreamed all of this, but that thought quickly died when he noticed the gigantic throne in the alleyway with

is where you died," the man said as

a deep breath and

he saw made his

the dark

memories of

of the man he had accidentally killed, while the other corpse belonged to Alex. Currently, only these two corpses lay in the alleyway. The injured dog had either

what had killed him but judging by the appearance

case something went wrong," the young man explained. "When he saw you kill his friend, he charged over with a crowbar, and well, you

at the two

man asked. "Your opponent died from a hit to the head, while you also

want this," Alex said slowly. "I didn't want to kill him.

are so many people willing to kill someone,

no one you can truly blame. A tragedy has happened, but no one

However, you have also died, and you also were in a dangerous situation. They can't blame you. Will they blame the young man for his actions? A

young man chuckled again. "There's no easy way out of this situation. That's what makes this so

happen now?" Alex

since not many people pass through here during the night," the young man explained. "A middle-aged

little bit.

four weeks. Then, he will stand trial for first-degree murder, but he will only be convicted

get a sentence

man's speech became slower as he concentrated

sentence, he will get back to the street and will

young man relaxed again as

Alex took a

the young man didn't know the future. Otherwise, he could have said everything in an instant. If one were able to see the future,

that the young man

that was even more

Whoop!