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.

ton of wood the past couple of days. After all, when the true winter arrived, the snow would make all the trees

down the first branches, his head turned to one of

Green eyes.

Alex knew these eyes.

stolen food from him more than once, the one

entire dynamic

had first met, the lizard had been overpowering. If it hadn't exhausted

had met, they had

was clearly the more powerful

even if he couldn't evade

not nearly as dangerous as

knew that Alex was

chin in thought as he looked at

that he wanted

Splosh!

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

and only looked at

back

lizard was a bit confused for a while, but it couldn't resist its instincts. It carefully walked closer to the leg,

PACK!

bit the leg and

Alex only smirked.

create any kind of connection with them, even

enough to notice that I was weaker

some kind of cooperation with that lizard. If its power increases, I might even be able to use it as a form of oven or dryer. That would make surviving the

in such a cold climate. Most reptiles are cold-blooded by nature, and they would freeze to death in these temperatures. I guess

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

placed the fire over ten meters away from his hut for a specific

big

cut some parts off the Stalker and grilled them around the fire. However, he didn't dry the

Why not?

a reason for

continued to build his hut for the

Boom!

of something heavy hitting the ground

Alex smirked.

I

sound grew louder over the next two minutes until something

absolutely enormous, and it had gigantic, green

It was the hedgehog!

the fire so far away from

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

but sat several meters away from the fire,

Alex for a second and then focused

last time, the hedgehog warmed itself over the fire

minutes, the hedgehog walked away from the fire, not destroying it this