Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex looked at the hedgehog, unsure if he was judging its intentions correctly.

Alex pointed towards the spire with his sword and looked at the hedgehog.

The hedgehog didn't react.

It continued looking at Alex with expectation.

'Fuck! Does it want me to get this ethereal spire for it?!' Alex thought.

'Is it forcing me to retrieve it?!'

Alex started sliding towards a different direction of where the hedgehog was.

CREEEAK!

The hedgehog followed Alex's new trajectory, and it quickly arrived at the spot where Alex was sliding towards.

'Fuck! It won't let me go! It will probably kill me if I exit the lake!'

Alex was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

He either had to go against the hedgehog or the thing in the lake.

Both of these creatures were far beyond his capabilities to deal with!

Alex felt stifled and frustrated beyond belief.

Others were deciding his fate!

He hated that!

Alex looked with hate at the hedgehog, but its demeanor didn't change.

It still looked at Alex expectantly.

After a while, Alex clenched his fist.

'If I have to choose, I'll choose to help the hedgehog,' Alex thought. 'The hedgehog has at least rewarded me when I gave it something. Instead, that thing in the lake will probably just ignore or consume me.'

'Sadly, I'm not powerful enough to make demands. I'm completely at the mercy of the hedgehog's whims.'

In the end, Alex shooed the lizard away.

He didn't want it to get hurt.

Alex turned to the ethereal spire, and the lizard understood what Alex meant.

Without hesitation, the lizard shot towards the shore of the lake, vanishing into the forest.

The hedgehog didn't even look at it.

'Sure enough, the lizard only cares about me as long as I'm of use to it. It will abandon me at the first sign of weakness. It might even kill me when I'm showing weakness,' Alex thought.

However, he had already expected something like that.

The lizard wasn't Alex's pet.

It was a wild animal and a reptile on top of that. Reptiles weren't known for their affection towards other animals.

Eventually, Alex moved around the ethereal spire and stopped behind it.

Right now, the spire was in front of Alex, and behind the spire, on the edge of the lake, was the hedgehog.

Alex would speed towards the spire, absorb it, and continue rushing towards the hedgehog.

This was the best method he could come up with.

Alex took a deep breath and mentally prepared himself.

SHING!

Then, Alex put his sword into the ice and shot himself forward.

Alex accelerated as much as he could.

And then, Alex's frozen arm hit the ethereal spire!

WHOOOM!

like the

spire became

form changed, and it started

a soft band made of paper that was being

SSSHH!

form of the spire wrapped itself around Alex's body

he was touched by something of

body wasn't

body. However, the outside of

the cold sensation was moving

cold sensation enter his head

seemingly was a blockage that stopped

the cold sensation gave up trying to get into Alex's head, and traveled

feeling, and he felt like

to jerk his left

WHOOOM!

terrifyingly cold wind came out of

hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and an additional layer of ice

something shocking happened at the same

arm instantly warmed

Alex's arm felt

all the cold in

spear, which was stuck

had worked with the same principles as

a room cold, an air conditioner

the inside of a room was as hot as the outside and the air conditioner was turned on, the inside

hot temperature was

arm had seemingly done something with the

resulting in his

now and didn't have any time to analyze this

had happened in just

seconds after Alex absorbed the

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke through the

was over ten meters tall and nearly three

line went through the boulder-like

and his

beak of a gigantic octopus!' he

ten meters

the middle of the lake, and

had probably assumed that Alex was still

Alex had grabbed the

looked with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire lake

had realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire

go of

cost too much Mana to condense something

the lake as a gigantic

quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

down at the frozen

ice didn't

because the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the hardness of

the octopus smashed its tentacles down, its body

over 50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

him in an

'I'm dead!'

flying octopus

would catch him

forward with

he saw made him

hedgehog had

wasn't even looking at him

opened widely with

And then, everything changed!

BANG!