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?

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

the videos of bulky men being unable

still necessary across the entire body. Every muscle would be required in a

sword. He would only

less strenuous than

burn with pain. On earth,

there

was done with his training, he jumped up a nearby

training like a madman, and it was showing incredible

longer needed to climb a tree. With one jump, he could easily jump two meters into the air, even

broken the physical limit of

the effect of

from the tree and

was a huge tree with a hole in the middle. The tree was nearly three-meters-wide, but it

and the cold

several pieces of

doorframe but Alex's future hut. Every day, Alex would cut more wood and add to the

into the wooden boards. After all, stone was hard but brittle. If he just

to cut out the holes with his sword and carefully

very unstable and wonky, but it held up for now. As long as nothing touched

went to a bench near the structure

old clothes had long since been ripped to pieces,

new clothes were

clothing looked wild and powerful,

clothing was already far superior to the previous ones. After all, Alex had gotten better

of the essential skills of surviving in the cold wilds

only need to remain in the shade most of the time, and if he walked around,

as hard

on his clothes, Alex grabbed his cloak and put

of jumps to test if his movement would be

looked at the dimming sky. He couldn't see the sun, but he wouldn't be able

Why?

sky was covered in oppressive, cold,

ago, and Alex noticed that the weather was getting

winter would

major problem for Alex since warmth would be

even guessed that temperatures might even reach -20 to -40 degrees Celsius at

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

Alex concentrated on becoming better at sewing and making

was one major problem standing in

narrowed as he checked his equipment