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.

his nose wrinkled

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

I had a hell of a time watching

young man gritted

showed up," the

"Who?" Alex asked.

SHING! Thump!

front of Alex, and he heard the sound of

he took

corpse of a young

guy," the young man repeated with hatred. "The so-called Mage

he

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

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

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

the young man spat in disgust while giving the corpse a side-eye. "He became the most powerful person in the world, but instead of furthering

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

years of progress!" the young man shouted as

man stood up as he paced

not

now, Alex had realized that this God was very easy

the world has been ever since then?!" the young man shouted

shook his

left, and the path of Magic is the only known path to true power," the young man said with frustration. "If anyone wants power, they simply join

what you want?" the young man parroted

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

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.

with nothing but Mages, and battles amongst Mages are one of the most boring ones in existence!" the young man shouted. "You ever seen people just flinging stuff at each other from a distance for hours on

young man's

watching my own fucking world

all

BANG! BOOOM!

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

took a

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

he came into my palace

to become quite powerful. I assumed that the other paths

like he owned the place and told me to make

SHING!

naked corpse appeared in front of

BANG!

another explosion

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

Alex remained completely silent.

This guy was dangerous!

man took a deep breath and looked at Alex

that's where you come into play," he said, "someone that has the guts

will 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