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

ethereal spire became

changed, and it started

band made of paper that was being pulled

SSSHH!

heard as the ethereal form of the spire wrapped itself around Alex's body

felt like he was touched

wasn't being

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

was like the cold sensation

the cold sensation enter his

was a blockage

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

and he felt like his arm became even

barely managed to jerk his left arm in

WHOOOM!

wind came

cold wind hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and

something shocking happened at

arm instantly warmed

arm felt quite hot

the cold in his body and had expelled

stuck in his

was like Alex's left arm had worked with the same principles as

air conditioner needed

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

temperature was gathered and

had seemingly done something with the same principle

cooled the surroundings, resulting in his left arm becoming

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

this had happened

Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke through

tall and

went through the

and his heart

the beak of a

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

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

probably assumed that Alex

had grabbed the

looked with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

it had caught nothing, and its

go

much Mana to condense

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

octopus quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

down at the

ice didn't

used its ice powers to increase the hardness

its body left the water and flew

itself over 50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched towards

catch him in a

forward with

what he saw

had

even looking at

eyes opened widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!