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

spire

form changed, and it started

was like a soft band made of paper that was

SSSHH!

could be heard as the ethereal form of the

he was touched by something of terrifying

Alex's body wasn't being frozen

his body. However, the outside of his body started to warm

the cold sensation

the cold sensation enter his head of

seemingly was a blockage that

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

Alex's left arm regained feeling, and he felt like his arm

jerk

WHOOOM!

terrifyingly cold wind came out

beneath Alex, and an

something shocking happened at the same

instantly warmed

arm felt quite

Alex had gathered all the cold in his body

was stuck

arm had worked with the same

room cold, an air conditioner needed to

outside and the air conditioner was turned on, the inside would become colder, and

hot temperature was gathered and

something with the same

the surroundings, resulting in his left arm

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

happened in just three

three seconds after Alex absorbed

BOOOOOOOM!

broke through the middle of the

ten meters tall and nearly

went through

was, and his heart beat fiercely in

beak of a

was ten meters long, how huge was the entire

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

assumed that Alex was

had grabbed the ethereal spire while

with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

had caught nothing, and its entire

couldn't let go of

much Mana to condense

the lake as a gigantic head came

looked around, and they immediately spotted the

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down at the

ice didn't

the octopus had used its ice powers to

down, its body left the water and flew

itself over 50 meters into the air, right towards

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

him in

'I'm dead!'

of the flying octopus

him in a

looked forward

he saw

had

wasn't even looking at him

widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!