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.

jumping, falling to the ground, standing up, pulling himself up on branches, and

soon as his training

muscle groups, but

as a make-shift

of his toes, went back to standing normally, went back to

This trained the calves.

did squats

This trained the thighs.

to know what kind of movement would train what

intense training session, Alex planned to

after Alex started training, the rain had

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

his bag and cleaned

a small hole in the form of a bucket and put the bag

remembered 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

at a relatively dry place on

already felt quite a bit

safety's sake, Alex also stopped training his legs at

had to check the usage of the

trained his arms

Alex continued training, he felt some kind

sure where that feeling had come from

wilderness, away from any kind of responsibility, family, public

his body and the rough

do nothing

was his only

Nothing else mattered.

was no job he had to go

money he had to worry

didn't have to wake up and

just had to

seemingly transformed from an exercise into some form of

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

Just power, nothing else.

minutes, Alex was done with

focused on his abdomen,

This took 60 minutes.

Alex was

had given Alex an incredible boost in

kept him cool, and the sensations of the raindrops had

one more deep breath as he slowly cooled down from his

Alex realized that his mind wasn't as focused

eaten much since yesterday, and he

bag and saw

at all. It had a brownish tint