Sword God in a World of Magic

Chapter 16

Crackle.

A fire was burning as several pieces of meat hung around it.

In the middle above the fire hung a bucket.

Alex had felled an entire tree with his sword and had hollowed out a big part of its trunk, creating his bucket.

Then, Alex had felled an even bigger tree, creating two round bowls.

The sharpness of Alex's sword was what allowed him to achieve this feat.

Alex had filled the bucket with pig blood and hung it above the fire.

Alex put one of the bowls over the bucket and put a long branch on it, which led to the side.

The bowl would catch the evaporating water, and when enough water gathered, it would trickle down to the lowest edge of the bowl, where the branch was.

The branch led the trickling water to the side, to a different bowl.

This was how Alex would solve the issue of water.

Sadly, this would be distilled water, and he also couldn't wash his tools since he didn't have any water to begin with.

The water in the other bucket didn't look refreshing or delicious, but it was water.

Strewn around the clearing were the remaining parts of the hog.

Alex couldn't finish the entire thing on his own, even if he ate for several days, and the meat would go bad anyway.

So, Alex decided to cut the pig apart and scattered the pieces around the clearing.

Why?

To ward off predators.

Sure, the smell of blood would gather many of them, but predators were also just animals.

If they could get food for free, they wouldn't want to fight.

If a predator came to the clearing, they would see a black creature of unknown size, thanks to the coat, sitting beside a hot fire.

Every normal predator would grab one of the pieces of the hog and would run away, leaving Alex alone.

While Alex's food and water were being prepared, Alex decided to get some more training in.

Alex put his coat away and climbed the tree.

BOOM!

As Alex hit the ground, a loud slam echoed throughout the forest.

This sound would also deter any animal from coming to this spot.

After all, only something big and powerful could make such loud sounds.

After three jumps, Alex heard some rustling.

His entire body hurt, but all of the pain was forgotten as he realized something else was close.

In the light of the fire, Alex could see two eyes in the dark.

They weren't very high up, and the animal was looking at Alex warily.

However, it didn't look at Alex with fear.

like an evaluating

Alex looked back.

see the

had killed two of the four

a bit, the lizard bit down on one of the pieces of meat

saw the lizard

grabbed his coat and put it around himself before he

Why?

one beast could shoot fireballs, it was possible that other beasts could do the same. However, the coat of the creature should offer

couple of jumps, Alex concentrated on healing himself

part of his training

top of that, it wasn't as

Thunk! Thunk!

heard rhythmic, loud

looked in the direction of the sounds

came from too far

making that

Thunk! Thunk!

sounds continued, and Alex only looked

Spring! Spring!

being stretched and snapping back into place could also

Creak!

wood joined in the cacophony of sounds, and the sounds were

Alex's eyes widened.

Something big was coming!

abandoned everything and climbed

found a good spot, he stopped

and

Snap!

created these weird sounds, and his

was an absolutely

was probably four meters

Needles?

the green hedgehog Alex had seen when he

loud thumping sounds

its flexible needles

snapping sounds were its flexible needles jumping back

seemingly moved with the hedgehog as it bent all of the trees

moving slowly and in a relaxed manner towards the place Alex had

slowly bent down as it consumed a huge

a ton of insects! A hedgehog of that size obviously also eats meat!' Alex thought

was far above

luck was nothing

closer, it ate all the pieces of

it reached the fire,

for a second, but he realized what the hedgehog was

was warming

sizzling fire directly below its belly didn't even

was an absolute

breath as he watched the hedgehog warm

Thunk!

the fire wasn't warm enough, so it lowered its belly

this suffocated the

the hedgehog stood up

hind leg in displeasure but continued

goes food,'

done, it

directly looked into

realized that the hedgehog had known where he

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