Sword God in a World of Magic

Time froze for Alex.

He only looked into the blank, white eyes of the… creature.

Yes, this was a creature, not an animal.

Just looking at it filled Alex with terror.

This thing differed greatly from a normal animal. Alex wasn't sure what exactly it was, but he felt a definite difference.

The green lizard had also felt different from normal animals, and this creature evoked a similar feeling as the lizard.

However, this creature felt far more powerful and far deadlier.

It was like the lizard and the creature were not on the same level.

An eternity seemed to pass as the two beings only looked at each other.

Ssshhh!

Time resumed as the creature suddenly jumped at Alex with ferocious speed. The jump made no sound. One could only hear something fast parting the air, nothing more.

Alex's body reacted instinctively, and Alex let himself fall away from the branch, putting the branch between him and the creature.

BANG!

The creature's left foreleg completely destroyed the thick branch that had been powerful enough to support Alex's full weight for hours.

CRSH!

Alex felt a burning pain assault the back of his thighs as muscles and blood were ripped out.

The creature had torn off a huge part of Alex's thigh.

If the branch hadn't been between them, his legs would have been completely destroyed!

BANG!

Alex's back hit the ground, pressuring his lungs, making it impossible to breathe.

Crsh!

The silent sound of wood being crushed could be heard as the creature used its long claws to stick to the tree.

Right now, Alex lay on the ground, not being able to breathe. His right thigh had a gigantic gash in it.

Meanwhile, the creature stopped in the tree and looked at Alex.

Then, it jumped again.

Alex's mind fell into chaos.

For a seemingly long time, his mind couldn't conjure up any rational thoughts as he tried to find a way out of this situation.

The distance between Alex and the creature reduced rapidly as the creature opened its mouth, filled with long, terrifying teeth.

When Alex saw the teeth, only two thoughts appeared in his head.

The first thought was: Protect!

Alex's hands stretched towards the creature in a futile effort to defend himself.

thought was:

but his

creature reached Alex and

SHING!

Time stopped again.

looked with terror at his front, right into

he was still

quickly noticed why he was

right hand, and

was already

sword had gone through its

its own fall before it had tried to bite Alex. Because of that, its weight hadn't pushed Alex

seconds of

"Hurgh!"

again as his lung recovered

with shock at the creature, trying to come to terms

pulled himself away and pulled the

SHING!

only looked at the

conjured a long and sharp weapon that

into a weapon

moonlight, Alex saw the weapon that would follow him for the

first thought that came to Alex was:

meter long, putting it among the longer

thought was:

was straight as a nail and

it had two symmetrical edges, separating it from eastern longswords,

a longer, straight

European longsword but with the same width all the

was nearly nonexistent, comprising

as he

Alex thought as he furrowed his brows. 'Such a thin sword would break apart after

started to

hard to just

put the sword down, and its

the shining moonlight, Alex continued to

more he looked at it,

into this new world,' Alex thought. 'The guy said that this sword can grow more powerful by absorbing ore. Additionally, I'm not sure if there even exists a material in my old world that can become this heavy with

had a glint of excitement

access to such powerful materials, they might not have made all their swords that thick to begin with. It's already hard enough to wield this sword,

'I should test it.'

Then, Alex stood up.

"Argh!"

he failed as he sat down

forgotten that the backside of his right thigh was ravaged. As soon as he had tried to stand up, burning pain shot

Alex moved his

the injury, he took a deep breath

The gash was massive!

even see

the healing potions in my

but remembered that his branch had

area for a bit, Alex

over, constantly being

minute later, he arrived beside his back and rummaged through

bag, a shiver went through his