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!

was like the spire

ethereal spire

and it started to curl around

a soft band made of paper that was being pulled

SSSHH!

heard as the ethereal form of the spire

like he was touched by something of

Alex's body wasn't being

felt a cold sensation creep into his body. However, the outside of his

like the cold sensation was moving

felt the cold sensation enter his head of its

was a blockage that stopped it from

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

he felt like his arm became even

jerk his left arm

WHOOOM!

wind came out of

beneath Alex, and an

something shocking happened at the same

instantly warmed

arm felt quite

was like Alex had gathered all the cold in his body and

ice spear, which was stuck in his

had worked with the same principles as

a room cold, an air conditioner needed to

the inside of a room was as hot as the outside and the air

hot temperature was gathered

arm had seemingly done something with the same

the surroundings, resulting in his

bigger problems right now and didn't have any time to analyze this

happened in just three

seconds after Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke

was over ten meters tall and

through the boulder-like

knew what this was, and his heart beat fiercely

a

the beak of the octopus was ten meters long, how huge was the entire

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

assumed that Alex was

had grabbed the ethereal spire while

with

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

had caught nothing, and its entire body broke out of

couldn't let go of

Mana to

the lake as a gigantic

looked around, and they immediately spotted the running

BOOOOOM!

down at the frozen

ice

had used its ice

tentacles down, its body left the water

itself over 50 meters into the air,

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was

would catch him in

'I'm dead!'

of the flying octopus stretched towards

catch him in a

looked forward

he saw made

hedgehog had

looking

opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!