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

spire's form changed, and it started to

made of paper that was

SSSHH!

ethereal form of the spire wrapped itself around

he was touched by

Alex's body wasn't being frozen

his body. However, the

the cold sensation

enter his head of its

a blockage that stopped it from

trying to get into Alex's

felt like his arm became even colder than

to jerk his

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came

wind hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and

shocking happened at

arm instantly warmed

actuality, Alex's arm

all the cold in his body and

stuck in his shoulder,

worked with the same principles as an air conditioning

cold, an air conditioner needed to transport the

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

temperature was

arm had seemingly done something with

surroundings, resulting in his left arm becoming

problems right now and didn't have

happened

seconds after Alex absorbed the

BOOOOOOOM!

broke through the middle of

tall and nearly three

went through the

his heart beat fiercely in his

a

ten meters long, how huge was the entire

punched through the middle of the lake, and it

octopus had probably assumed that

had grabbed the ethereal spire while

with

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

that it had caught nothing, and its entire body broke

go of its

Mana

nearly 50-meters-long stretched across the lake as a gigantic head

eyes of the octopus quickly looked around, and they immediately spotted the running

BOOOOOM!

all punched down at the frozen

the ice didn't

was because the octopus had used its ice

tentacles down, its body left the water and flew

over 50 meters into the air,

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

catch him in

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched towards

catch him

looked forward

what he saw made him

hedgehog had turned

wasn't even looking at him

eyes opened widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!