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?

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

had to look at the videos of bulky

was still necessary across the entire body. Every

decided to mainly train with his sword. He would

strenuous than training one's entire body.

huge part of his body burn with pain. On earth, someone would have long since stopped training since overtraining was just

there was no

done with his training, he jumped up

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 the heavy

physical limit of

was the effect of

the tree and walked to the

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

dead, and the cold wind had destroyed the upper part of

of wood arranged in the shape of a big

and add to the wood. In

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

cut out the holes with his sword and carefully insert the

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

near the

since been

clothes were made

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

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

essential skills of surviving in

have to bother that much with sewing. He would only need to remain in the shade most of the time, and if he walked around, he would

blanket wasn't nearly as hard

his cloak and put it around

a couple of jumps to test if his movement would be impaired by the new set of clothing and

see the sun, but he

Why?

sky was covered in oppressive,

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

would

Alex since warmth would

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

body now, he knew that he

on becoming better at sewing and

was one major problem standing

eyes narrowed

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