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.

up by running, jumping, falling to the

in a long time, but as soon as his training actually began,

would only do some muscle groups, but today, I'm doing

as a make-shift weight. After all, it was

his shoulders, stood on the tip of his toes, went back to standing normally, went back to the tip of

This trained the calves.

he did squats with

This trained the thighs.

to know what kind of

this was an intense training session, Alex planned

one hour after Alex started training,

and the meat could still be eaten when it was cold. It should

grabbed his bag

the form of a

that when his healing potions broke, they had made the back wet, but most of the liquid had still remained inside. This meant that the bag could hold water to some

put at a relatively dry

training his legs, and he already felt quite a bit

also stopped training his legs at this

to check the usage

trained his

he felt some kind of

hadn't been sure where that feeling had come from initially, but he

kind of responsibility, family, public image, work,

body and the

do nothing but

his only

Nothing else mattered.

was no job he had to go

money he had to worry

didn't have to wake up

had to grow more

mind, the training seemingly transformed from an exercise into some form of spiritual

like this was the most primal and most

Just power, nothing else.

done with his arms and

focused on his abdomen, chest,

This took 60 minutes.

Alex was

and he felt as alive as never before. These new surroundings had given Alex an incredible boost in energy, and training under the

and the sensations of the raindrops

took one more deep breath as

Alex realized that his

yesterday, and he

bag and saw that

all. It had a brownish