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.

about ten minutes to warm up by running, jumping, falling to the ground, standing up, pulling himself up on branches, and doing lots of

in a long time, but as soon as his training actually began, he felt like no

muscle groups, but

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

went back to standing normally, went

This trained the calves.

squats with the

This trained the thighs.

know what kind of

this was an intense training session, Alex planned to make

started training, the rain had

food. If the fire went out, it went out, and the meat could still

Alex grabbed his bag and

the form of a bucket

remembered that when his healing potions broke, they had made the back wet, but most of the liquid had still remained inside.

at a relatively dry place on his

he already felt quite a bit of soreness. This was the point where he would normally

safety's sake, Alex also stopped training his

check the usage of the Mana

Alex trained his arms

felt some

feeling had come from initially, but

kind of responsibility, family, public image, work, and

the rain drenching his body and the rough wilderness

had to do

was his only

Nothing else mattered.

he had to go

money he

have to wake up and

had to grow

from

was the most primal and most fundamental truth of

Just power, nothing else.

Alex was done with

Alex focused on his

This took 60 minutes.

was

hours, and he felt as alive as never before. These new surroundings had given Alex an incredible boost in

sensations of the raindrops had

took one more deep breath as

couple minutes later, Alex realized that his

since yesterday, and he

checked on the bag and saw

all. It had a brownish tint to