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

wanted to be

God wouldn't have chosen a boring

left arm several

heart rate increased as he became more

it!' Alex thought with gritted

that, the decision had been

would damage the muscles in his left arm to such a degree that it would be considered an injury

is going to hurt like hell!' Alex thought with

Splash!

left his tree and let himself fall onto the wet

just stayed there for half

a minute, he

procedure continued for nearly

hour later, Alex

were chattering as the sensations of his body became

Alex slowly turned over.

his left arm using

to lower the temperature of his body and go all

left arm with

would do this on

Why?

were cold. If the

take a full minute for Alex's "technique" to show

pain shot through Alex's left biceps as it violently

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

minute later, Alex had to stop as he held his left arm

had probably torn a huge part of his left

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

in Alex's eyes

BANG! BANG! BANG!

balled his right hand into a fist and violently beat

Alex stopped as he only gasped

something like this would

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

his left biceps as he

sat down and

pain, but after

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

until he no longer felt the warm sensation on his

opened his eyes and moved

Alex saw the result, another complex mix

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

biceps had fully

Why exhilaration?

that Alex could

Why fear?

that Alex had to go through

exactly what this

transform from an

would be no

would be full of pain, nothing