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

videos of bulky men being

necessary across the entire body. Every muscle

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

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

burn with pain. On earth, someone would have long since stopped training since overtraining was just

here, there was

he jumped up a nearby tree

like a madman, and it was showing

jump, he could easily jump two meters into the air, even with the heavy sword on

the physical limit of humans on

the effect

minutes later, Alex jumped down from the tree and walked

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

already dead, and the cold wind had destroyed

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

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

the wooden boards. After

out the holes with his sword and

As long as nothing touched the structure, and as long as the

to a bench near the structure

been ripped to pieces,

clothes were made of wolf

such clothing looked wild and powerful, but

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

would have thought that one of the essential

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 only need to protect himself from

blanket wasn't nearly as hard to

grabbed his cloak and put it

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

but he wouldn't

Why?

sky was covered in oppressive, cold,

days ago, and Alex noticed that the weather was getting

would soon be

major problem for Alex since warmth would be

reach -20 to

now, he knew that

Alex concentrated on becoming better at sewing and

was one major problem standing

Alex's eyes narrowed as