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

Alex looked back.

a bit, Alex could see the owner of

green lizard that had killed two

down on one of the pieces of meat and

the lizard

his coat and put it

Why?

shoot fireballs. If one beast could shoot fireballs, it was possible that other beasts could do the same. However, the coat

a couple of jumps, Alex concentrated on

his training since this

of that, it wasn't as painful as the

Thunk! Thunk!

rhythmic,

in the direction of

from too far

that

Thunk! Thunk!

Alex

Spring! Spring!

sound of something elastic being stretched and snapping back into place

Creak! Creak! Snap!

wood joined in the cacophony of

Alex's eyes widened.

Something big was coming!

and

found a good spot, he stopped moving and grew

and grew

Snap!

saw what created these weird sounds, and

an

meters high, excluding

Needles?

hedgehog Alex had seen when

thumping sounds were its

its flexible needles getting

were its flexible needles jumping back

moved with the hedgehog as it bent all of

and in a relaxed manner towards

bent down as it consumed

technically omnivores. They eat a ton of insects! A hedgehog of that size obviously also eats meat!' Alex thought as

monster was far above his

by luck was nothing in comparison to this

pieces of

fire, it stopped

but he realized what the

warming

below its belly didn't even

an absolute

breath as he watched the hedgehog warm

Thunk!

wasn't warm enough, so it lowered its

suffocated the

some seconds, the hedgehog stood up again,

the fire with his hind leg in displeasure

there goes food,'

the hedgehog was done, it turned its

looked into

realized that the hedgehog had known where he was the entire

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