Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex looked with a complex expression at the young man.

Changing a world filled with people that could become as powerful as this God right before him?

How?

He was only a mortal.

"Now, don't be hasty," the young man said with a smirk as he read Alex's mind again. "Right now, you are like a child hearing that they have to lead their father's company in the future. Of course everything will appear like it's too much."

"In fact, you don't have to do much at all."

"You only have to become stronger."

"That's it."

Alex furrowed his brows. "That's it? But you said I'm supposed to change the world."

"Correct," the young man said as he leaned back again. "However, you becoming powerful is exactly what will change the world."

"Could you stop talking in riddles and just directly tell me what you want me to do?" Alex asked.

The young man snickered. "Sure."

"I already told you a little bit about my main world," the young man said. "To repeat, my world allows someone to reach supreme power by increasing the power of your body and mind."

"There are innumerable ways to supreme power. You can use the inherent energy in the air to increase the power of your mind. This strengthens your soul, and the more powerful your soul gets, the more powerful your mental abilities become. You can crush elephants with just your mind or move the energy of the world in such a way that it creates powerful destructive forces."

"However, you can also focus on strengthening your body. By absorbing the energy in the atmosphere and fusing it with your body, you can become so fast and so powerful that the other person that trains their mind wouldn't even be able to react to an attack of yours."

"You can also fuse with some ethereal concepts and summon them."

"You can also concentrate on weapons, which allows you to sunder reality with a move of your weapon."

"You can also comprehend the concepts of how the world works and manipulate the energy in such a way that it imitates these concepts. You would gain control over fire, gravity, time, space, water, metal, life, and so on."

"You can even just purely absorb Energy without end, becoming a walking bomb that could unleash many years of accumulated power in a single strike."

Alex listened intently.

All of this sounded too magical.

In fact, it sounded more like a game with different classes. All the classes could become about equally powerful near the end of a game via their own ways.

The young man laughed. "Yes, you could also view it as a game. However, remember, this is reality, not a game."

Alex nodded.

"So, in short, there are innumerable ways to power," the young man said.

Then, he paused.

Alex looked at the young man as his brows furrowed.

nose wrinkled

said as he looked at Alex again, not as chipper as before. "I have implemented all these different paths to power. Over time, humanity slowly began to discover all

was going well, and I had a hell of a time watching the

young man

he showed up,"

"Who?" Alex asked.

SHING! Thump!

shone for a short moment in front of Alex, and he heard the sound of something hitting

and he

the naked corpse of a

repeated with hatred.

thought as he

of magic," the young man explained. "This was also the first example I gave you when I described some paths to power in

the ones that use the energy to increase the power of their mind and soul?" Alex asked as

else, the Mages sought supremacy over

man spat in disgust while giving the corpse a side-eye. "He became the most powerful person in the

of the other paths of power," the young man said with some anger. "Even more, after he killed the most powerful people, he ordered the other mages to kill everyone else that has reached a sufficient standard

this fucking guy ruined thousands of years of progress!" the young man shouted as he

young man stood up as he

himself, not

had realized that this God was very easy

know how fucking boring the world has been ever since then?!" the

quickly shook

of Magic is the only known path to true power," the young man said

you want?" the

make the other paths to power work will eventually give up and join the Mages after realizing that their progress isn't fast enough. No shit your progress isn't

is that the Mages aren't even suppressing the other paths to power!" the young man shouted. "They don't even need to! Everyone joins them eventually! Well, no shit! You

are one of the most boring ones in existence!" the young

young man's pacing

own fucking world when

all this

BANG! BOOOM!

corpse in rage, and the corpse flew with insane speeds at

a

corpse, the young man seemed to feel better, and an evil smirk appeared

palace like he owned

looking rather favorably upon him since he managed to become quite powerful. I assumed that the other

had to act like he owned

SHING!

front of the young man

BANG!

another explosion

room until he eventually died," the young man said with a genuinely malicious

Alex remained completely silent.

This guy was dangerous!

deep breath and

play," he said, "someone that has the guts and drive to

to practice Magic. However, you are a person that