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.

Alex grabbed some dried wood from his wood stock. Alex had gathered a ton of wood the past couple of days. After all, when the true winter arrived, the snow would make

head turned

Green eyes.

Alex knew these eyes.

was the lizard that had stolen food from him more than once,

the entire dynamic

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

had met,

more powerful one

even if he couldn't evade them, he could still use his sword or cloak to block

lizard was dangerous but not nearly as dangerous

of them knew that Alex was the more

as he looked

that he wanted

Splosh!

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

didn't move and only looked at the lizard for a

Alex went back to creating

a bit confused for a while, but it couldn't resist its instincts.

PACK!

bit the leg and

Alex only smirked.

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

Stalker was also smart enough to notice that I was weaker without my weapon. I

work hard enough, I can build some kind of cooperation with that lizard. If its power increases, I might even be able to

by nature, and they would freeze to death in these temperatures. I guess the fire the lizard

I need to see if this will actually work,' Alex thought as he

placed the fire over ten meters away from

quite a big

them around the fire. However,

Why not?

a

build his hut for the

Boom!

sound of something heavy hitting the

Alex smirked.

Should I be happy

grew louder over the next two minutes until something appeared at the edge of

enormous, and it had

It was the hedgehog!

Alex had built the fire so far

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

sat several meters away from the fire, leaving enough

hedgehog looked at Alex for a second and then

itself over the fire for several

the hedgehog walked away from