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?

mass and volume of the body, slowing down the speed of the fighter. Even more, if the muscles on the torso reached a

of bulky men being unable to touch

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

train with his sword. He would only give

not any less strenuous than training one's entire body. It simply trained

Alex felt a huge part of his body burn with

there was

he jumped up a nearby

had been training like a madman, and it was showing

no longer needed to climb a tree. With one jump, he could easily jump two meters into the air,

broken the physical limit of

the effect of

jumped down from the tree and walked to the edge of

front of Alex was a huge tree with a hole in the middle. The tree was nearly three-meters-wide, but it wasn't the tallest

the cold

several pieces of wood arranged in the shape of a

future hut. Every day, Alex would cut more wood and add to the wood. In a couple of days, he would have his

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

Alex had to cut out the holes with his sword and carefully insert 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 wasn't too strong,

bench near the structure

old clothes had long since been ripped to

new clothes were made of

looked wild and powerful, but in reality,

far superior to the previous ones. After

have thought that one of the essential skills of surviving in

to remain in the

as hard to make as actual

clothes, Alex grabbed his cloak

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

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

Why?

covered in oppressive, cold,

ago, and Alex

winter would

for Alex since

guessed that temperatures might even reach -20 to -40

if Alex had an incredibly powerful body now, he knew that he

Alex concentrated on becoming better at sewing

major problem

arrived, and Alex's eyes narrowed as