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.

all, that would have

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

wanted to

God wouldn't have chosen

at his left arm several times with

as

it!' Alex

decision had

such

going to hurt like hell!' Alex thought with

Splash!

tree and let himself fall

he just stayed there for half

a minute, he turned

procedure continued for nearly half an

an hour later, Alex felt incredibly

as the sensations of his

Alex slowly turned over.

his left arm using all his

lower the temperature of his body

train his left arm with all his

person would do

Why?

cold. If the muscle fibers weren't flexible, they would tear

a full minute

burning sting of pain shot through Alex's left biceps as it violently cramped

to cramps, and he managed to continue pushing his

stop as he held his left

probably torn a huge part of

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

eyes

BANG! BANG! BANG!

hand into a fist and

stopped as he

long something like this would take to

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

left biceps as he walked over

he sat down and tried to

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

from the hot pain, and the pain also slowly receded into the

he no longer felt

his eyes and moved

the result, another complex mix of emotions appeared in

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

biceps had

Why exhilaration?

Alex could gain power at a

Why fear?

to go through an insane amount of

knew exactly what this

an

be no

would be full of pain,