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

was supposed to

wanted

wouldn't

left arm several times with

as

it!' Alex thought with

that, the decision had been

his left arm to such a degree

going to hurt like

Splash!

his tree and let himself fall

just stayed there for half a minute,

half a minute, he turned to

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 arm using all his

decided to lower the temperature of his

would train his left arm

would do this

Why?

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

minute for Alex's

through Alex's left biceps as it violently cramped

Alex was used to cramps, and he managed to continue pushing his left arm far

to stop as he

probably torn a huge part of his

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

eyes

BANG! BANG! BANG!

a fist and violently beat up

later, Alex stopped as he only gasped for

exactly how long something like

like this would probably take four to six weeks to heal on earth. I hope it doesn't take that long to heal here

biceps as he walked

sat down

to enter meditation since he was in severe pain, but after an hour, he managed to connect with the Mana

the pain also slowly receded

air until he no longer felt the warm

he opened his eyes

another complex mix of emotions appeared

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

his biceps had

Why exhilaration?

meant that Alex could gain power at a terrifying

Why fear?

to go through

knew exactly what this

from an enjoyable exercise into pure

would be no

be full of pain,