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.

Alex could see the owner of the

that had

lizard bit down on one

Alex saw the lizard retreating, he amended

put it around himself

Why?

it was possible that other beasts could do the same. However, the coat of the creature should offer some protection. Even if it caught fire, Alex could always ditch

training continued, and after a couple of jumps, Alex

looked forward to this part of his training since this was the part that increased his

that, it wasn't as painful

Thunk! Thunk!

heard rhythmic,

direction of the sounds but couldn't see

from too far

that

Thunk! Thunk!

continued, and Alex only looked

Spring! Spring!

elastic being stretched and snapping back into place could

Creak!

the cacophony of sounds, and the sounds were

Alex's eyes widened.

Something big was coming!

everything and climbed the closest

a good spot,

sounds continued and

Snap!

these weird sounds, and his eyes

an absolutely

probably four meters high, excluding

Needles?

Alex had seen when he

loud thumping sounds

were its flexible needles getting hung

jumping

with the hedgehog as it bent all of

moving slowly and in a relaxed manner towards the place Alex

down as it consumed a huge

technically omnivores. They eat a ton of insects! A hedgehog of that size obviously also

monster was far above

Alex had killed by luck was nothing in

closer, it ate all the pieces of the pig, including

fire, it

confused for a second, but he realized

warming its

sizzling fire directly below its belly

was an

kept his breath as he watched the hedgehog warm

Thunk!

warm enough, so it lowered its belly and

suffocated the

hedgehog stood up again,

with his hind leg in displeasure

there goes food,' Alex

the hedgehog was done, it turned its

looked

shivered as he realized that the

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