Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex slowly stood up, and as soon as he did, his eyes widened.

Alex looked down at his body with wonder.

'My muscles, they feel fine!' Alex thought with shock.

Alex moved his body around and did some light, basic exercises to test his body.

Sure enough, he felt completely fine!

It was like he hadn't just trained for four hours!

As Alex looked at his body with shock, the realization that this world was nothing like this previous one really set in for the first time.

Alex had done enough sports on earth to know exactly how he should be feeling right now.

Yet, not even the slightest feeling of weakness was present.

'The feeling of weakness while doing the workout comes from the built-up lactic acid, but after such a long resting period, the lactic acid has already vanished. The feeling of weakness after that comes from the small, torn muscle fibers.'

'So, since this feeling isn't present, does it mean that my muscle fibers have already healed?' Alex thought with surprise.

'Have I already gone through the recovery phase?!'

Alex tried to comprehend his current situation.

He was even more shocked by this revelation than when he had seen the giant hedgehog.

Why?

Because Alex knew exactly how insane this was.

Alex remembered a gaming term from his past life.

This was broken!

'So, I can literally give my entire body several workouts each day?'

However, Alex's feeling of shock and exhilaration quickly vanished.

Why?

Because Alex's mind was going to a dangerous place.

'Theoretically, the more damaged the muscle, the stronger it will become. The problem on earth is that the recovery period for such damage would be so long that it wouldn't be nearly as efficient as training normally.'

'But here?'

'I'm not even sure if the power increase comes from the workout or the absorbed Mana. It could be that I only need to damage my muscles to make them absorb more Mana. I might not need to do actual, traditional training.'

Alex's eyes focused on his left arm, and he felt a complex mix of feelings.

Anticipation, nervousness, fear, curiosity, greed.

Was Alex a normal human?

When living in a normal environment, sure, he could be called normal.

However, if he would remain normal while being flung into a new world, the God wouldn't have chosen him to enter his world.

that would

reason why Alex was supposed to grow powerful in a non-traditional way

wanted to

wouldn't

arm several

increased as he became

it!'

decision

left arm to such a degree that it would be considered

going to hurt like hell!' Alex thought with narrowed

Splash!

his tree and let himself fall onto

there for

he

continued for nearly

an hour later,

chattering as the sensations

Alex slowly turned over.

violently pushed with his left arm

lower the temperature of his body and go

arm with all

sane person would do this

Why?

way harder for muscles to stay flexible while they were cold. If the muscle fibers weren't flexible, they would tear

even take a full minute for

sting of pain shot through Alex's left biceps

to cramps, and he managed to continue pushing his left arm far past its

stop as he held his left

a huge part of his

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

mad glint appeared in Alex's eyes

BANG! BANG! BANG!

into a fist and violently beat up his

seconds later, Alex stopped as he only gasped

knew exactly how long something like this would take to heal

earth. I hope it doesn't take that long to heal here

as he walked over to his

sat down and tried

meditation since he was in severe pain, but after an hour, he managed to connect

the pain also slowly receded into the background. However, the

air until he no longer felt the warm sensation on his

opened his eyes

the result, another complex mix of emotions appeared

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

biceps had fully

Why exhilaration?

this meant that Alex could gain power

Why fear?

had to go through an insane

knew exactly

from an

would be no more

be full of