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 had been

spire

spire's form changed, and it started to curl around Alex's

band made of paper that

SSSHH!

ethereal form of the spire wrapped itself around

he was touched by something

wasn't being

creep into his body. However, the outside of his body started to

sensation was

felt the cold sensation enter his head of

there seemingly was a blockage that stopped

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

he felt like

barely managed to jerk his left

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

arm felt

Alex had gathered all the cold

ice spear, which was stuck in his shoulder, was melting

had worked with the same

to make a room cold, an air conditioner needed to

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

was gathered and

had seemingly done something with

had cooled the surroundings, resulting in his left

problems right now and didn't have any time to

happened in just three

Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

broke through the

ten meters tall and nearly three meters

through

knew what this was, and his heart beat fiercely in

beak of a gigantic

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

through the middle of the

had probably assumed that Alex was

Alex had grabbed the ethereal spire while

with

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

octopus had realized that it had caught nothing,

go of

much Mana to

nearly 50-meters-long stretched across the lake as

quickly looked around, and

BOOOOOM!

punched down at the frozen

ice didn't

octopus had used its ice

octopus smashed its tentacles down, its body

thrown itself over 50 meters into

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was too

him in an

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched

would catch him

looked forward with

saw

had

looking at

widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!