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 ground, standing up,

hadn't trained in a long time, but as soon as his training actually began, he felt like no time had passed since

some muscle groups,

as a make-shift weight. After all,

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

This trained the calves.

squats

This trained the thighs.

know what kind

an intense training session, Alex planned

Alex started training, the

the fire went out, it went out, and the meat could still

his bag

a small hole in the form of a bucket and

that when his healing potions broke, they had made the back wet, but most of the liquid

been put at a relatively

quite a bit of soreness. This was the point where he would normally stop training his legs when

sake, Alex also stopped training his

to check the usage of the

trained his arms

training, he felt some kind of primal

been sure where that feeling had come

kind of responsibility,

rain drenching his body and

do

his only

Nothing else mattered.

job he

no money he had to worry

to wake up and go to

just had to grow

the training seemingly transformed from an

primal and most fundamental truth of

Just power, nothing else.

90 minutes, Alex was done

Alex focused on his abdomen, chest,

This took 60 minutes.

Alex was

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

him cool, and the sensations of the raindrops had

breath as he slowly cooled down

minutes later, Alex realized that his mind wasn't

much since yesterday, and

checked on the bag and saw that it

pure at all.