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.

that, his nose wrinkled in

these different paths to power. Over time, humanity slowly began to discover all these different paths, and the peak powers

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

the young man

when he showed up," the

"Who?" Alex asked.

SHING! Thump!

in front of

over, and he took a deep

naked corpse

repeated with hatred. "The

as he looked at

was the path of magic," the young man explained. "This was also the first example I gave you when

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

neutrally. "Just like everyone else, the Mages sought supremacy over everyone, but they weren't

the most powerful person in the world, but instead of furthering his own power even more, he concentrated

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

guy ruined thousands of years of progress!" the young man shouted

up as he paced

to himself, not saying or thinking

this

has been ever since then?!"

shook

is the only known path to true power," the young

you already know of a way to get what you want?" the young man parroted with

give up and join the Mages after realizing that their progress isn't fast enough. No shit your

to! Everyone joins them eventually! Well, no shit! You have thousands of years of refined Spells, Techniques, and Crafts while everyone else has

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

man's pacing

watching my own fucking world when it's supposed to bring me

all this asshole's

BANG! BOOOM!

man kicked the corpse in rage, and the corpse flew with insane speeds at the wall, which promptly

took a deep

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

into my palace like he owned

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

to act like he owned the place and told me to make space

SHING!

appeared in front of the

BANG!

another explosion

said with a genuinely malicious grin. "It took hours, but he still eventually succumbed to

Alex remained completely silent.

This guy was dangerous!

deep breath

said, "someone that has the

with a body that is unable to practice Magic. However, you are a person that