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

entire reason why Alex was supposed to

wanted

obviously, the God wouldn't have

arm several times with

as he became more

need to try it!'

that, the decision had

damage the muscles in his left arm to such a degree that

is going to hurt like hell!' Alex

Splash!

and let himself

just stayed there

half a minute, he turned to

for nearly

hour later, Alex

teeth were chattering as the sensations of

Alex slowly turned over.

violently pushed with his

his body and go all out without warming

his left arm with all his power

sane person would

Why?

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

minute for Alex's

Alex's left biceps as it

was used to cramps, and he managed to

minute later, Alex had to stop as he held

a huge part of his left

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

Alex's eyes as he wanted to go even

BANG! BANG! BANG!

a fist and violently

Alex stopped as he

like

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

left biceps as

he sat down and tried

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

pain, and the pain

until he no

opened his eyes

complex mix of emotions

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

biceps had fully

Why exhilaration?

meant that Alex could gain power at

Why fear?

this meant that Alex had to go

knew exactly what this

from an enjoyable exercise into pure

would be no more

would be full of