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 have

to grow powerful in a

wanted to be

God wouldn't

left arm

increased as

try it!' Alex thought

that, the decision had been

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

is going to hurt like hell!' Alex thought with

Splash!

left his tree and let himself fall

there for half a

minute, he turned

continued for nearly half an

later, Alex

as the sensations of his

Alex slowly turned over.

he violently pushed with his left arm using all his

decided to lower the temperature of his body

his left arm with all his power

person would do this on

Why?

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

take a full minute for Alex's

through Alex's left biceps as it

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

to stop as he

had probably torn a huge part of his left

Yet, Alex wasn't done.

mad glint appeared in Alex's eyes as

BANG! BANG! BANG!

balled his right hand into a fist and violently beat up

later, Alex stopped as he only

something like this would

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

held his left biceps as he

he sat down and tried to

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

the pain also slowly receded into the background.

the Mana in the air until he no longer felt the warm sensation on his

eyes and moved

Alex saw the result, another complex mix of emotions appeared

Disbelief, exhilaration, fear.

Why disbelief?

biceps

Why exhilaration?

meant that Alex could

Why fear?

to go

knew exactly what

transform from an

be no

be full