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

only had to look at the videos of bulky men being

entire body. Every muscle would be required

He would only give his entire body a workout after every third

was not any less strenuous than training

every session of training with the sword, Alex felt a huge part of his body burn with

here, there

with his training, he jumped up

madman,

needed to climb a tree. With one jump, he could easily jump

physical

the

the tree

of Alex was a huge tree with a hole in the middle. The tree

cold wind had destroyed the upper part of its

tree were several pieces of wood arranged in the shape

cut more wood and add to the wood. In a couple of days, he would have his very

boards. After all, stone was

that, Alex had to cut out the holes with his sword and carefully insert

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, the structure

a bench near the structure and grabbed

long since been ripped to pieces, including his spare

new clothes were

think that such clothing looked wild and powerful, but in reality, it

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

would have thought that one of the essential skills of surviving in the cold wilds was

climate, he wouldn't have 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 the

as hard

clothes, Alex grabbed his cloak and put it around

to test if his movement would be

couldn't see the sun, but he wouldn't be able to

Why?

covered in

had already snowed a couple of days ago, and Alex noticed

winter would soon

problem for Alex since warmth would be

even reach -20 to -40 degrees Celsius at the peak

powerful body now, he knew that

Alex concentrated on becoming better at sewing and

there was one major problem

narrowed as he checked