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.

would have been

Alex was supposed to grow

wanted

the God wouldn't

arm

rate increased as he became more

need to try it!' Alex thought with gritted

decision had been

to such a degree that it would be

like hell!' Alex thought with narrowed

Splash!

his tree and let himself fall onto the wet

there for half a minute,

a minute, he turned to a different

weird procedure continued for nearly

later, Alex felt

chattering as the sensations of his body became

Alex slowly turned over.

then, he violently pushed with his left

the temperature of his body and

arm with

sane person would do this on

Why?

it was way harder for muscles to stay flexible while they were cold. If the muscle fibers

even take a full minute for Alex's

shot through Alex's left biceps as it violently cramped

Alex was used to cramps, and he managed to continue pushing

had to stop as he held

torn a huge part of

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

in Alex's eyes as he

BANG! BANG! BANG!

a fist and

as he only

knew exactly how long something like this would take to heal on

this would probably take four to six weeks to heal on earth. I hope

biceps as he walked over

down and tried

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

pain, and the pain also slowly

the Mana in the air until he no longer felt the

opened his eyes

the result, another complex mix

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

his biceps

Why exhilaration?

could gain power at a terrifying

Why fear?

to go through

knew exactly what this

an enjoyable

be no more fun

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