Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex descended the tree and mentally prepared himself for his first training session in this new world.

The God had told Alex that he should destroy his body as thoroughly as possible with training and then use meditation to enhance his body with Mana.

Nothing out of the ordinary would happen if someone told something like this to a newbie regarding sports.

Why?

Because if someone didn't have enough experience in physical exercise, their willpower and resistance to physical pain wouldn't be strong enough to really damage their muscles.

When a newbie regarding sports trained until they couldn't anymore, their muscles wouldn't receive too much damage since the body's self-preservation instinct kicked in. The person would feel like they couldn't continue, but someone that had trained themselves for longer could go further.

Alex was a bit apprehensive about the God's words.

Alex had trained his body to such a degree that he had even managed to join the biggest MMA organization in the world.

It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that Alex had once had a body that was normally only seen on TV, and, well, it made sense. After all, Alex's fights had also been broadcast on TV.

Because of that, if Alex decided to go all-out with his training, he had the willpower to actually train his body until even his tendons snapped.

Of course, he had never done something like that before since it was stupid beyond belief to do that.

'But this world is different,' Alex thought as he scratched his chin. 'If the Mana in the atmosphere has some kind of healing and strengthening effect on even tendons, training until my tendons snap might actually have an even greater effect.'

Alex looked at the forest with a conflicted expression.

'Yet, what if Mana actually doesn't help in healing such injuries? What if it helps, but it takes several days for it to heal something like that? I would be helpless during that time.'

'I mean, I could try it in a village where I'm safe, but here? Not sure.'

Alex sighed.

'I should start slowly. Let's first get an above-average workout in. Let's go until I would be wrecked with soreness for the next couple of days.'

Alex mentally prepared himself for training, something he hadn't done in a long time.

Alex felt himself become more energetic and powerful as his brain sent signals to his body to prepare itself for a stressful time.

Then, Alex did something surprising.

He took off all his clothes.

'I will be plenty warm when I train, and I don't want my clothes to reek of sweat.'

Alex made several of his joints crack as he jumped up and down a bit.

'Alright, let's go!'

And thus, Alex's first training session began.

minutes to warm up by running, jumping, falling to the ground, standing up, pulling himself up on branches, and

time, but as soon as his training actually began, he

groups, but today, I'm doing all of

it as a make-shift weight.

the tip of his toes, went back to standing normally, went back to the tip of his toes, and

This trained the calves.

he did squats with

This trained the thighs.

enough to know what kind of movement would

session, Alex planned to make it a

hour after Alex started training, the

If the fire went out, it went out, and the meat could still be eaten when it was

grabbed his bag and cleaned

form of a bucket and

had made the back wet, but most of

put at a relatively dry place on

had finished training his legs, and he already felt quite a bit of soreness.

Alex also stopped training his

check the usage of

trained his arms and

he felt some kind of

that feeling had come from initially, but he

from any kind of responsibility, family, public

his body and the

had to do

his

Nothing else mattered.

job he had to go

money he had to

to wake up

had to

training seemingly transformed from

most primal and most fundamental

Just power, nothing else.

done with his arms

focused on his abdomen,

This took 60 minutes.

Alex was finally

never before. These new surroundings had given Alex an incredible boost in energy, and training under the rain had been a bit weird at the beginning, but Alex had

the sensations of

took one more deep breath as he slowly cooled

realized that his mind wasn't as focused

hadn't eaten much since yesterday,

and saw that it was

at all. It had a