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?

body, slowing down the speed of the fighter. Even more, if the

had to look at the videos of

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

of all these reasons, Alex decided to mainly train with his sword. He would only give his entire body a workout after every third session of

any less strenuous than training one's entire body. It simply

burn with pain.

here, there

training, he jumped up a nearby tree

training like a madman, and it was showing incredible

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

physical

the effect of

tree and walked to the

tree with a hole in the middle. The tree was

it was already dead, and the cold

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

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

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

that, Alex had to cut out the holes with

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

near the structure and grabbed his

had long since been ripped to pieces, including his

clothes were made

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

to the previous ones. After all, Alex had gotten better

of the essential skills of surviving

sewing. He would only need to remain in the shade most of the time, and if he walked around, he would only need to protect

nearly as hard to make

grabbed his cloak and

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

the dimming sky. He couldn't see the sun, but he

Why?

was covered in oppressive,

snowed a couple of days ago, and Alex noticed that the weather was getting

winter would soon

for Alex since warmth would

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

an incredibly powerful body now, he knew

concentrated on becoming better at sewing

was one major problem standing in

narrowed as he checked his