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.

to warm up by running, jumping, falling to the ground, standing up, pulling

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

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

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

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

This trained the calves.

did squats with the

This trained the thighs.

know what kind of movement would

session, Alex planned to

Alex started training,

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

grabbed his bag

that, he dug a small hole in the form

they had made the back wet, but most of the liquid had still remained inside. This meant

put at a

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

sake, Alex also stopped training his legs

the

trained his arms

continued training, he felt some kind

feeling had come from initially, but he quickly

wilderness, away from any kind of responsibility,

rain drenching his body and the rough wilderness

do nothing

his

Nothing else mattered.

no job he

he

have to wake up and

to grow more

training seemingly transformed from an exercise

felt like this was the most primal and most fundamental truth of the

Just power, nothing else.

was done with his arms

his

This took 60 minutes.

was finally

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

kept him cool, and the sensations of the raindrops had been almost

as

minutes later, Alex realized that his mind wasn't as

hadn't eaten much since yesterday, and he

saw that it was full of

all. It had a brownish tint to