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.

more like an

Alex looked back.

could see

was the green lizard that had killed two of the four

bit down on

Alex saw the lizard retreating, he amended his

his coat and put it around himself before

Why?

beasts could do the

masochistic training continued, and after a couple of jumps, Alex concentrated on

always looked forward to this part of his training since this was the part

of that, it wasn't as painful as the

Thunk! Thunk!

rhythmic, loud

direction of the sounds but

came from too far

that sound?' Alex

Thunk! Thunk!

sounds continued, and Alex only looked in

Spring! Spring!

something elastic being stretched and

Creak! Snap!

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

Alex's eyes widened.

Something big was coming!

immediately abandoned everything and climbed

a good spot, he stopped moving and grew

continued and grew

Snap!

saw what created these weird sounds, and his eyes

an absolutely humongous

probably four meters high,

Needles?

the green hedgehog Alex had

thumping sounds

creaking sounds of wood were its flexible needles getting hung up on the

were its flexible needles jumping back into place

trees seemingly moved with the hedgehog as

moving slowly and in a relaxed manner towards

slowly bent down as it

ton of insects! A hedgehog of that size obviously

was far above

luck

pieces

it reached the fire, it

second, but he realized what the hedgehog

was warming its

sizzling fire directly below its belly didn't even bother

an

he watched

Thunk!

so it

suffocated the

seconds, the hedgehog stood up

the fire with his hind leg

goes

done, it turned its

directly looked into

as he realized that the hedgehog had known where he was the

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