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

Alex was supposed to grow powerful in a

wanted

the God wouldn't

at his left arm several

rate increased as he became more

it!' Alex thought with

decision had been

the muscles in his left arm to such a degree that it would be

to hurt like hell!' Alex thought

Splash!

his tree and let himself

he just stayed there for half

minute, he turned to

for

later, Alex

teeth were chattering as the sensations of

Alex slowly turned over.

then, he violently pushed with his left arm using all his

the temperature of his body and go all out

would train his left arm with all his

sane person would do this on

Why?

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

a full minute for

of pain shot through Alex's left biceps

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

Alex had to stop as he held his left

huge part of his

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

appeared in Alex's eyes as he wanted to go even

BANG! BANG! BANG!

hand into a fist and violently

seconds later, Alex stopped as

like this would take to heal

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

biceps as he

sat down and tried

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

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

concentrated on the Mana in the air until he no longer

opened his eyes and moved his

complex mix of

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

biceps had

Why exhilaration?

this meant that Alex could gain

Why fear?

this meant that Alex had to go

exactly

transform from an enjoyable exercise into pure

would be no more

would be full