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 speed of the fighter. Even more, if the muscles on the torso reached a certain mass, they would even restrict the movement of the

to look at the videos of bulky

amount of power was still necessary across the entire body. Every muscle would be

of all these reasons, Alex decided to mainly train with his sword. He would

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

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

there

training, he jumped up a nearby

been training like a madman, and it

no longer needed to climb a tree. With one jump, he could easily jump two meters into the air, even with the heavy sword on his

physical limit of

the

minutes later, Alex jumped down from the tree

with a hole in the middle. The tree

cold wind had destroyed the upper part of

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

hut. Every day, Alex would cut more wood and add

stone 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

that, Alex had to cut out the holes with his

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

to a bench near

old clothes had long since been

were

wild and powerful, but in reality, it

far superior to the previous ones.

of the essential skills of surviving in the cold wilds

only need to remain

as hard to make

putting on his clothes, Alex grabbed his cloak and put it around

jumps to test if his movement would be

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

Why?

sky was covered in oppressive, cold,

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

would soon

Alex since warmth would be of

might even reach -20 to -40 degrees

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

why Alex concentrated on becoming

there was one major problem standing

eyes narrowed