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 in

as before. "I have implemented all these different paths to power. Over time, humanity slowly

I had a hell of a time watching the different paths of

young man

when he showed up," the young man

"Who?" Alex asked.

SHING! Thump!

front of Alex, and he heard the sound

looked over, and he took

corpse of a

man repeated

he looked at

I created was the path of magic," the young man explained. "This was also the first

young man while a naked corpse was lying beside them. "You mean the ones that use the energy to

like everyone else, the Mages sought supremacy

corpse a side-eye. "He became the most powerful person in the world, but instead of furthering his own power even

killed all the most powerful people 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 of power without

thousands of years of progress!" the

young man stood up as he paced around in

himself, not saying

now, Alex had realized that this God was very easy

world has been ever since then?!" the

quickly shook

the young man said with frustration. "If anyone wants power, they simply join

get what you want?" the

people that try to 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

worst thing 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 have thousands of years of refined Spells, Techniques, and Crafts while everyone else has

existence!" the young man shouted. "You ever seen people just flinging

man's pacing

fucking world when it's supposed to bring me

it's all this asshole's

BANG! BOOOM!

rage, and the corpse flew with insane speeds at

took a deep

man seemed to feel better, and an evil smirk appeared on his

seen him when he came into my palace like he owned the place,"

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

owned the

SHING!

corpse appeared in front of the young

BANG!

kick, another explosion at

said with a genuinely malicious grin. "It took hours, but

Alex remained completely silent.

This guy was dangerous!

man took a deep breath and

said, "someone that has

body that is unable to practice Magic. However, you are a person that wants to become more powerful, someone that chases power. If Magic doesn't