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?

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 mass, they would even restrict the movement

at the videos of

of power was still necessary across the entire body. Every muscle would be required in a fight. They were just used

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

not any less strenuous than training

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

here, there was no

was done with his training, he jumped up a

been training like a madman, and it was

With one jump, he could easily jump two meters into the air, even with the

broken the physical

was the effect

the tree and walked

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

it was already dead, and the cold wind had destroyed the upper part of

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

add to the wood. In a couple of days, he

into the wooden boards.

cut out the holes with his

as nothing touched the structure, and as long

bench near the

clothes had long since been ripped

were made of

wild and powerful, but in reality,

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

one of the essential skills of surviving

much with sewing. He would only need to remain

as hard to

grabbed his cloak and put

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

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

Why?

the sky was covered

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

would soon be

problem for Alex

might even reach -20 to -40 degrees

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

on becoming better at

there was one major problem standing in

soon arrived, and Alex's eyes narrowed