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.

when the true winter arrived, the snow would make all the trees wet. Alex needed dry wood

down the first branches, his head turned

Green eyes.

Alex knew these eyes.

was the lizard that had stolen food from him more than once, the one that had shot the fireballs at

the entire dynamic had

had first met, the lizard had been overpowering. If it hadn't exhausted itself against the wolves, it could have killed

met, they had

clearly the more powerful one

ability to evade the fireballs, and even if he couldn't evade them,

but not nearly

knew that Alex was

he looked at the lizard

he wanted to

Splosh!

the Stalker and threw it over to the lizard. The lizard jumped to the side and looked at Alex

and only looked at the lizard

went back to creating his

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

PACK!

leg and

Alex only smirked.

earth are solitary creatures. It's nearly impossible to create any kind of connection with them, even when one has them as pets for

this world is different from earth. The Stalker was also smart enough to notice that I was weaker without my weapon. I think creatures are

knows? Maybe if I work hard enough, I can build some kind of cooperation with that lizard. If its power increases, I might even be able to use it as a form of

they would freeze to death in these temperatures. I guess the fire

if this will actually

the fire over ten meters away from his hut for

quite a big fire

some parts off the Stalker and grilled them around the

Why not?

had a reason for

to build his

Boom!

something heavy hitting the

Alex smirked.

Should I be happy or

two minutes until something

enormous, and

It was the hedgehog!

had built the fire so far away from his

assumed that the hedgehog had found him the last time due to the fire and smell

sat several meters away from the fire, leaving enough space for

hedgehog looked at Alex for a second

like last time, the hedgehog warmed itself over the fire for

minutes, the hedgehog walked away from the fire,