Sword God in a World of Magic

CRRR! CRRRR!

The sound of something heavy being pulled along the ground resonated throughout the forest. Except for this sound, everything else was silent.

This was the sound of the Stalker's corpse being pulled through the forest.

White snowflakes fell down around Alex as he walked through the deep darkness.

Suddenly, Alex saw a slight golden light coming from the sky. If his eyes hadn't been strengthened, he wouldn't have noticed this little bit of light.

Above the layer of clouds was a golden shooting star, its light barely visible to him.

'A golden shooting star that's so bright that I can even see it through a thick layer of clouds?' Alex thought with furrowed brows. 'That's strange. However, this world is already strange enough. This is just one more oddity added to the pile.'

Alex looked back down.

This golden shooting star didn't concern him.

After a while, Alex arrived at his clearing.

He hadn't seen another animal or creature all this time.

If it had been a month ago, Alex would have met at least one creature that had been drawn to him due to the sound, but Alex's position had changed.

He was no longer the vulnerable, new survivor.

Now, he was one of the hunters of the forest.

A normal animal would be frightened off by the Stalker's corpse, and a powerful creature would be able to feel Alex's power.

Stalkers weren't the most powerful creatures in the forest, but they also weren't weak.

Alex still remembered the two gigantic beasts he had seen when he had just arrived.

If Alex tried to attack them, he wouldn't even know how he had died.

He couldn't possibly fight against such behemoths with his current power.

Current was the keyword.

When Alex arrived at his clearing, he let go of the corpse and sat down beside it.

Shing! Shing!

Alex took out his sword and started to skin the corpse.

In the silent, cold night, only the sound of cutting could be heard.

It was like Alex was the only being in this world as only darkness surrounded him.

After Alex was done with skinning the Stalker, he took the hide and put it near his hut.

past couple of days. After all, when the true winter arrived, the snow would make all the trees wet. Alex needed dry wood to create a fire, and he needed enough to get through the

Alex put down the first branches, his head turned to one of the

Green eyes.

Alex knew these eyes.

that had stolen food from him more than once, the one that had shot the

entire dynamic had

overpowering. If it hadn't exhausted itself against the wolves, it could have killed

had met, they had been

clearly the more powerful one

had a lot of confidence in his ability to evade the fireballs, and even if he couldn't evade them, he could still use his sword or cloak

lizard was dangerous but not nearly as

them knew that Alex was

he looked

he wanted

Splosh!

the severed leg of the Stalker and threw it over to the lizard. The lizard jumped to

didn't move and only looked at

went back to

couldn't resist its instincts.

PACK!

the leg and ran away at full

Alex only smirked.

nearly impossible to create any kind of connection with them, even when one

also smart enough to notice that I was weaker

build some kind of cooperation with that lizard. If its power increases, I might even be able to use it as a form of oven

climate. Most reptiles are cold-blooded by nature, and they would freeze to death in these temperatures. I guess the fire the lizard can use keeps

for the future. Right now, I need to see if this will actually work,' Alex thought

had placed the fire over ten meters away from

big fire roared

and grilled them around the fire. However, he didn't dry the hide

Why not?

a

to build his

Boom!

of something heavy hitting

Alex smirked.

actually works. Should I be

next two minutes until something appeared at the edge of

and it had

It was the hedgehog!

had built the fire so

him the last time due to the fire and smell of meat, and sure enough, the hedgehog had

but sat several meters away from the fire,

at Alex for a

time, the hedgehog warmed itself over the fire for several minutes.

minutes, the hedgehog walked away from