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!

give up on the corpse. Food

tried again, and this

branch and pulled up the remaining part. His arms hurt and burned, but he

he managed to grab it with his arms and finished the last pull

of Alex and the corpse, and Alex decided to quickly switch branches. If that branch broke, all

different branch and breathed heavily as he moved

of the skin on his fingers had been nearly shorn off, making them bleed a little bit. However, such an

was worth it,'

relaxed, he felt

thought. 'It might even reach below freezing later in

narrowed his eyes as he looked at the corpse

he climbed to the other branch, being careful to not

put parts of his clothes

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

everything was done, Alex simply sat on his branch,

The issue of warmth should be

of the wolf that was bleeding onto the

body shivered. 'I'm not so desperate yet. I can think about drinking blood when I'm about to die of

Alex released

be enough for the day,' he thought. 'I should

wrapped them around himself

It certainly wasn't comfortable.

need to sleep,' he thought, closing his

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

reality that he would never

Alex thought with pain. 'Do you think I'm

as

light of the sun reached

wasn't as dark as one

Why?

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

dark forest, creating foreboding

a cold wind blew, these shadows moved in an ominous dance in accordance with the

Drip. Drip. Drip.

the leaves and the whistle of the wind were the drops of

another sound joined

on

tired,' he thought. 'So much stuff has happened that my mind just can't calm down. I need to do something to distract

mattress while his body was wrapped in clothing, looking at the

Alex just sat there.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

the God rang

he narrowed

Mana in the air can strengthen me and heal my injuries. I can't train my body right now, but I should be able to do that, at

eyes as

feel the Mana in the air, and there also has to

Alex sat on the branch with closed eyes, he

there something

should be able

Drip. Drip. Drip.

whistling wind, and rustling leaves were the only

there was

some kind of trance as he felt his

felt like he was

while, his skin started tickling as Alex felt some of his hairs

there was something

there was something new in the

this, which made this force that much

force, he