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?

slowing down the speed of the fighter. Even more,

had to look at the videos of bulky men being unable to touch

of power was still necessary across the entire body. Every

reasons, Alex decided to mainly train with his sword. He would only give

less strenuous than training

a huge part of his body burn with pain. On earth,

here, there

he jumped up

had been training like a madman,

With one jump, he could easily jump two

the physical limit of

the effect of

down from the tree and walked

was a huge tree with a hole in the

the cold wind had destroyed the upper part of

the tree were several pieces of wood arranged in the shape of a big

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

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

that, Alex had to cut out the holes with his sword and

as nothing touched the structure, and as long as the wind wasn't too

bench near the structure

been ripped to

were made

looked wild and

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

essential skills

bother that much with sewing. He would only need to remain in the shade most of the

as hard

Alex grabbed his cloak and put it around

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

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

Why?

the sky was covered

ago, and Alex noticed that the

winter would soon be

Alex since

-20 to -40 degrees Celsius at the

now, he knew that he couldn't survive

was why Alex concentrated on becoming better at sewing

there was one major problem standing in his

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