Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex glanced at the horizon and noted that the sun was barely visible.

'It's already sundown. I'm not sure what manner of creatures travel around at night in this forest, but I don't want to be on the ground while night's out.'

Alex grabbed the wolf's corpse and lifted it. It was really heavy, but he barely managed to lift it up to his chest. However, it was very exhausting.

Then, Alex looked at the branches above him.

The lowest branch that could support the weight of the wolf was a full meter above him.

'I might be able to lift the corpse over my head, but I sure as hell can't throw it up there. Jumping is also out of the question. It's simply too heavy.'

'I need an alternative,' Alex thought as he put the corpse down again.

Alex paced around as he tried to think of a solution. The forest darkened more as time passed, and Alex became more nervous.

By now, the birds had become silent, making the forest appear deathly silent.

Even the constant buzzing of the insects became quieter until it eventually stopped.

Right now, the only noise in the forest was Alex's footsteps.

Then, Alex looked up at the bag in his tree.

'I have to try it! I can't waste this corpse!'

Alex quickly climbed up the tree and got his bag.

After opening it, Alex took out all his spare clothes and tied them together. Luckily, he had enough clothes to make quite a long line.

'If old-timey prisoners can use something like this to escape from prisons, I can use it to pull up a corpse!'

Alex tied his makeshift rope to the chest of the wolf.

Then, Alex climbed up to the first branch of the tree and let himself fall down at the other side, holding the rope.

CRRRR!

The rope became taught, and Alex feared that it might snap.

CRRR!

The wolf corpse slightly moved upward but stopped.

'I'm not heavy enough.'

Alex climbed up the rope, happy that his body was fit enough to do something like that.

Then, Alex tugged the rope under his arm and put his feet on the branch.

After that, Alex pushed himself off the branch.

CRRRR! THUNK!

The corpse moved upwards, but one of the knots loosened.

The wolf hit the ground, and Alex also fell down.

Luckily, he managed to protect his head with his arms. He only received a couple of bruises.

The falling corpse echoed throughout the forest, making Alex even more nervous.

With the current silence of the forest, that sound should have traveled for over a hundred meters!

up on the corpse. Food was a

tried again, and this time, no knots loosened.

corpse was lifted to a good height, Alex climbed up the branch and pulled up the remaining part. His arms hurt and burned, but he

had to drop the corpse, he managed to grab

and the corpse, and Alex decided to quickly switch branches. If that branch broke, all his work would have been for

at a different branch and breathed heavily as he

nearly shorn off, making them bleed a little

hope this was worth

felt his body starting

cold,' he thought. 'It might even reach below freezing

eyes as he looked at the corpse

branch, being careful to not

and put parts of his clothes on a

other half of the clothes to the side for now. He would make them into

everything was done, Alex simply sat on

of food has been solved for now. The issue of warmth should be

at the corpse of the wolf that was bleeding

think about drinking blood when I'm about to

Alex released

should start my expedition tomorrow. Right now, I only

the remainder of his now-dirty clothes and wrapped them around himself

It certainly wasn't comfortable.

he thought,

day shot through his head. In just a single day, he had died, met a God, went to a new

the reality that he would never see

already heard of my death, mom, dad?' Alex thought with pain. 'Do you think I'm

as Alex's

hour later, no light of the

it wasn't as

Why?

close to becoming a full moon. The moon cycle wasn't completely there yet,

dark forest, creating foreboding

ominous dance in accordance with the

Drip. Drip. Drip.

the whistle of the wind were the drops of blood from the corpse hitting

sound joined

up on the branch with

my mind just can't calm down. I need to do something

sat on his makeshift mattress while his body was wrapped in clothing, looking at the ground.

Alex just sat there.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

with the God rang through

he narrowed

heal my injuries. I can't train my body right now, but I should be able to do that,

closed his eyes as he sat on the

in the air, and there also has to

sat on the branch with closed eyes, he concentrated on the

something

was, Alex should be able to feel it in

Drip. Drip. Drip.

wind, and rustling leaves were the only things

that, there was

some kind of

he was

started tickling as Alex felt some of

was something

there was something new in

anything like this, which

he felt it slowly