Sword God in a World of Magic

A month had passed since Alex arrived in this world.

For the first couple of days, Alex focused on finding a steady water source and scouted for places with fruit, berries, and nuts. He didn't know if this world followed the rules of needing different vitamins and minerals to be healthy, but he didn't want to find out while being in the wild.

After a couple of days, Alex found a river going through the valley's center, splitting the mountain range surrounding the valley in two. In the very center of the valley was a lake where the water gathered for a while before continuing down the river.

Alex had found a humongous dead tree there and planned to create a home for himself.

Alex had already used up all the fruits he had received from the hedgehog in a spree of self-destroying insanity. Luckily, he had gotten somewhat used to the torturous training, even if he still feared it.

Courage didn't mean being fearless but being able to overcome one's fears. Alex still feared the time when he would gain another set of fruits, but he knew that he could jump over his shadow when it was time.

The taste of power was irresistible for Alex. Even if the training was horrible and inhumane, the power he gained from it was worth it in his mind.

Alex used his desire for power as fuel to overcome his fear of pain.

Was something like that healthy?

That depended on one's circumstances and viewpoints.

Would such pain change a person?

Definitely.

However, different people changed differently when undergoing such torture.

How would Alex change?

That remained to be seen.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Alex stood in a clearing, constantly swinging his sword.

After a brief run-in with another set of wolves, Alex had realized that he wasn't very good at using his sword. Alex had always only fought with his body for his entire life, never with a true weapon. This made him very unaccustomed to fighting with an actual weapon.

Following that fight, Alex had decided to train with his sword more, and just shortly after training with his sword, Alex noticed something troublesome.

His triceps and back started to hurt quite quickly.

Alex had trained his entire body, but training everything equally was not always the correct choice.

A good example would be a climber. If someone had bulky legs, a bulky abdomen, and a bulky back, they would increase the strain on their hands and arms due to the added weight of muscles.

In that case, training everything equally would not only not help but even be detrimental to performance.

What about a swordfighter?

increase the mass and volume of the body, slowing down the speed of the fighter. Even more, if the muscles on the torso reached a certain mass, they would even

the videos of bulky men being

a certain amount of power was still necessary across the entire body. Every muscle would be required in a fight. They were

would only give his entire body a workout

a sword was not any less strenuous than training one's entire body. It simply trained

burn with

here, there was

his training, he jumped up a nearby tree and sat down

madman, and it was

he could easily jump two

the physical

the effect

Alex jumped down from the tree and walked to the edge of

in the middle. The tree was

the cold wind had destroyed

tree were several pieces of wood arranged in the

cut more wood and add to the wood. In a couple of days, he would have his very own, tiny

stone for nails, but it was a difficult process to get them into the wooden boards. After

had to cut out the holes with his sword and carefully insert the

and wonky, but it held up for now. As long as nothing touched the structure, and as long

bench near the structure and grabbed

long since been ripped

were

looked wild and powerful, but in reality, it looked poor

the previous ones. After

essential skills of surviving in the cold wilds was

need to remain

nearly as hard

clothes, Alex grabbed his cloak and

would be impaired by the new set of clothing and realized that

sky. He couldn't see the sun, but he wouldn't be able to see the sun

Why?

was covered in oppressive,

already snowed a couple of days ago, and Alex

winter would

for Alex since

-20

Alex had an incredibly powerful body now, he knew that he couldn't

Alex concentrated on becoming better at

one major problem standing in

arrived, and Alex's eyes narrowed as he checked