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

ethereal spire

and it started

soft band made of paper that was

SSSHH!

of sizzling could be heard as the ethereal form of the spire wrapped itself around Alex's body in an

he was touched by something of

wasn't being frozen or

into his body. However, the outside of

cold sensation was

enter his head of its own

there seemingly was a blockage that stopped it

up trying to get into

he felt like his arm

barely managed to jerk his

WHOOOM!

cold wind came out of Alex's left

cold wind hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and

something shocking happened at the same

instantly warmed

actuality, Alex's arm

all the

spear, which was stuck in his

arm had worked with the same principles

room cold, an air conditioner needed to transport the heat

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

hot temperature was gathered and

done something with

the surroundings, resulting in his left arm

right now and didn't have any

of this had happened in

three seconds after Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

broke through

tall

line went through

what this was, and his heart beat fiercely

beak of a

of the octopus was ten meters long, how huge

had punched through the middle of the lake, and it had closed

assumed that Alex was still

grabbed the ethereal spire

with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire

go of its

cost too much Mana

as a gigantic head came out of the

the octopus quickly looked around, and they immediately spotted

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down

the ice didn't

its ice

smashed its tentacles down, its

meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was too

would catch him

'I'm dead!'

the flying octopus

him in

forward with desperate

he saw

hedgehog had turned

looking at

opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!