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.

would

Alex was supposed to grow powerful in a non-traditional

wanted to be

the God wouldn't

glanced at his left arm several times with a complex

heart rate increased as he

it!' Alex

that, the decision had been

to such a degree that it would be considered

like hell!' Alex thought with

Splash!

left his tree and let himself fall onto the

stayed there for half a minute,

he

for nearly

hour later, Alex felt incredibly

teeth were chattering as the sensations

Alex slowly turned over.

his

his body and go all out

would train his left arm with all

person would do this on

Why?

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

didn't even take a full minute for Alex's

shot through Alex's left biceps as it violently

was used to cramps, and he managed to continue pushing his left arm far past its

as he

torn a huge part

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

eyes as he wanted to

BANG! BANG! BANG!

fist and violently beat up

as he only gasped

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

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

biceps as he walked over to

he sat down and tried to

was in severe pain, but after an hour, he managed to connect

from the hot pain, and the pain also slowly receded

air until he no longer felt the warm sensation on his

his eyes and moved his

complex mix of

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

biceps had fully

Why exhilaration?

meant that Alex could gain power

Why fear?

meant that Alex had to

exactly

from an enjoyable

be no more fun

would be full of