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 an evaluating

Alex looked back.

a bit, Alex could see

green lizard that had killed two

the lizard bit down on one of the

Alex saw the lizard

put it

Why?

it was possible that other beasts could do

a couple of jumps, Alex concentrated on healing

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

it wasn't as

Thunk! Thunk!

rhythmic, loud

looked in the direction of the sounds but couldn't

came from too

that

Thunk! Thunk!

Alex only looked

Spring! Spring!

elastic being stretched and snapping back into place

Creak! Snap!

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

Alex's eyes widened.

Something big was coming!

everything and climbed the closest

good spot, he stopped moving and

sounds continued and grew

Snap!

saw what created these weird sounds, and his

was an absolutely

probably four meters high, excluding its

Needles?

had seen when he had arrived in

sounds

were its flexible needles getting hung up

snapping sounds were its flexible needles jumping back into

moved with the hedgehog as it

in a relaxed

it consumed a huge

eat a ton of insects! A hedgehog of that size obviously also

monster was far above his

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

pieces of the pig,

the fire, it stopped above

a second, but he realized what

was warming

sizzling fire directly below its belly didn't

was an

breath as he watched

Thunk!

the fire wasn't warm enough, so it

suffocated the

hedgehog stood up again,

scratched the fire with his hind leg in displeasure but continued

there goes

hedgehog was done, it turned

it directly looked into Alex's

he realized that the hedgehog

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