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?

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

of bulky men being unable to touch their

entire body. Every muscle

with his sword. He would only give his entire body a workout after every third session of sword

a sword was not any less strenuous than training one's entire

huge part of his body burn with

here, there

was done with his training, he jumped up a nearby tree and sat

had been training like a madman,

he could easily jump two meters into the air,

the physical limit of

was the effect

minutes later, Alex jumped down from the tree and walked to the edge of the

was a huge tree with a hole in the middle. The tree was nearly

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

the hole in the tree were several pieces of

wasn't a doorframe but Alex's future hut. Every day, Alex would cut more wood and add to the wood. In a couple of days, he would have his very

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

of that, Alex had to cut out the holes

unstable and wonky, but it held up for now. As long as nothing touched

near the structure and grabbed his

clothes had long since been ripped to pieces, including his spare

were made of wolf

would think that such clothing looked wild and powerful, but

to the previous ones. After all, Alex had

that one of the essential skills

he wouldn't have to bother that much with sewing. He would only need to remain in the shade most

hard to make as

on his clothes, Alex grabbed his cloak and put

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

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

Why?

was covered in oppressive, cold,

already snowed a couple of days ago, and Alex

would

Alex since warmth would be

temperatures might even reach -20

now, he knew that he

why Alex concentrated on becoming better at

major problem standing in

narrowed as