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?

fighter. Even more, if the muscles on the torso reached a certain mass, they

at the videos of bulky men being unable

still necessary across the entire body. Every muscle would

to mainly train with his sword. He would only give his entire body a workout

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

body burn with pain. On earth, someone would have long since

there was no

done with his training, he jumped

a madman, and

one jump, he could easily jump

had already broken the physical limit of

was the effect of

later, Alex jumped down from the tree and walked to

a huge tree with a hole in the middle.

cold

several pieces of wood arranged

more wood and add to the

a difficult process to get them into the wooden boards. After all, stone was hard but brittle. If he just hammered the nails in, they

out the holes with his sword

for now. As long as nothing touched the structure, and as long as

near the structure and

been ripped to pieces, including

were made of

that such clothing looked wild and powerful, but in reality, it

was already far superior to the

the essential skills of surviving in the cold wilds

remain in the shade most of

as hard to make as actual

on his clothes, Alex grabbed his

of jumps to test if his movement would be impaired by the

he wouldn't be able to see the sun anyway, even if it

Why?

was covered

couple of days ago, and Alex noticed

winter would

was a major problem for Alex since

temperatures might even reach -20 to -40 degrees Celsius at the peak of

incredibly powerful body now, he knew that he couldn't survive

on becoming better at sewing and

there was one major problem

arrived, and Alex's eyes narrowed as he checked his