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

this time, no knots loosened. Alex made sure

pulled up the remaining part. His arms hurt and burned, but he didn't have to

corpse, he managed to grab it with his arms and finished the

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

Alex sat down at a different branch and breathed heavily as

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

was

felt his body starting to

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

eyes as he looked at the

climbed to the other branch,

and put parts of his clothes on a higher branch, making a

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

was done, Alex simply sat

food has been solved for now. The issue of warmth should be solved until the weather becomes even colder, which it surely will. What

of the wolf that was bleeding

I can think about drinking blood when I'm about

Alex released a

enough for the day,' he thought. 'I should start my expedition tomorrow. Right now, I

grabbed the remainder of his now-dirty clothes and wrapped them

It certainly wasn't comfortable.

to sleep,' he

head. In just a single day, he had died, met a God,

the first time, the reality that he would never see his

dad?' Alex thought with pain. 'Do you think

as Alex's

no light of the

it wasn't as

Why?

becoming a full moon. The moon cycle

the dark

these shadows moved in an ominous

Drip. Drip. Drip.

only sounds besides the rustling of the leaves and the whistle of the wind were the

sound joined

up on the

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

clothing, looking at the ground. The grass had a silver sheen

Alex just sat there.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

God

he narrowed

the air can strengthen me and heal my injuries. I can't train my body

closed his eyes as he

feel the Mana in the air, and there also has to be a way to absorb

branch with

something in

be able to feel it

Drip. Drip. Drip.

the whistling wind, and rustling leaves were the only things that could be heard in

that, there was

some kind of trance as he felt

he was

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

there was something else in the

there

didn't have anything like this, which made this

he felt it slowly