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

have implemented all these different paths to power.

well, and I had a hell of a time watching the different paths

the young man gritted

that's when he showed up,"

"Who?" Alex asked.

SHING! Thump!

in front of Alex, and he heard

and he took a

naked corpse

guy," the young man repeated

he

young man explained. "This was also the first example I gave you when I described

mean the ones that use the energy to increase the power of their

like everyone else, the Mages sought supremacy over everyone,

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

after he killed the most powerful people, he ordered the other mages to kill everyone

ruined thousands of years of progress!" the young man shouted as he glared at the corpse of burning

stood up as he

himself, not saying or

realized that this God was very easy to

you know how fucking boring the world has been ever since then?!" the young man shouted as

quickly shook

true power," the young man said with frustration. "If anyone wants power, they simply join the mages. Path of least resistance, you

what you want?" the young man parroted with anger

realizing that their progress isn't fast enough. No shit your

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 fuck-all due to your purge in the past. Of course

ones in existence!" the young man shouted. "You

man's pacing

own fucking world when it's supposed to bring me

all this asshole's

BANG! BOOOM!

corpse

took a deep

the corpse, the young man seemed to feel better, and an

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

since he managed to become quite powerful. I assumed that the other paths to power would recover with

idiot just had to act like he owned the place and

SHING!

corpse appeared in front of the young man again,

BANG!

another explosion at

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

Alex remained completely silent.

This guy was dangerous!

took a deep

come into play," he said, "someone that has the guts

send you into my world with a 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 work for you, you will find another