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

supposed to grow powerful in a non-traditional way was

God wanted to

obviously, the God wouldn't have chosen

at his left arm several times with a complex

heart rate increased as he became more

need to try it!' Alex thought

the decision had

to such a degree that it would

going to hurt like hell!'

Splash!

left his tree and let

he just stayed there

a minute, he turned to a different

weird procedure continued for

hour later, Alex

the sensations of his

Alex slowly turned over.

his left arm

of his

his left arm with all his

would

Why?

cold. If the muscle

full minute for Alex's "technique" to

Alex's left biceps as

and he managed to continue pushing

to stop as he

torn a huge part of his

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

Alex's eyes

BANG! BANG! BANG!

fist and violently beat up

later, Alex stopped as he only

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

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

left biceps as he walked over

down

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

felt his left biceps cool down from the hot pain, and the

air until he no longer felt

his eyes and moved his

result, another complex mix of emotions appeared in

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

his biceps had fully

Why exhilaration?

Alex could gain power at a terrifying

Why fear?

meant that Alex had to go through an insane

knew exactly

transform from an enjoyable exercise

be no more fun in

full of pain,