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.

was more like

Alex looked back.

bit, Alex could see the owner of

the green lizard that had

the lizard bit down on one of the pieces

lizard retreating, he

put it around himself before he continued

Why?

do the same. However, the coat of the creature should offer some protection. Even if it caught fire, Alex

masochistic training continued, and after a couple of jumps,

of his training since this was

wasn't as painful as the

Thunk! Thunk!

heard rhythmic,

looked in the direction of

came from too far

that sound?'

Thunk! Thunk!

and Alex only looked in

Spring! Spring!

of something elastic being stretched and snapping back into

Creak! Snap!

in the

Alex's eyes widened.

Something big was coming!

abandoned everything and climbed

a good spot, he stopped moving

and grew even

Snap!

Alex saw what created these weird sounds,

was an absolutely

meters high, excluding

Needles?

had

sounds were its

wood were its flexible needles getting hung up on the

sounds were its flexible needles jumping back into place after passing a

moved with the hedgehog as it bent all of the

and in a relaxed

it slowly bent down as it consumed a huge part

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

monster was far above his

creature Alex had killed by luck was nothing in comparison to this

pieces of the pig, including the ones

fire,

confused for a second, but he

warming

fire directly below its belly didn't even

was an

he watched the

Thunk!

so it

suffocated the

some seconds, the hedgehog stood up again,

fire with his hind leg in displeasure

goes

was done, it turned its

directly looked into

shivered as he realized that the hedgehog had known

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