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!

the spire

ethereal spire

form changed, and it started to curl

band made of paper that was

SSSHH!

of sizzling could be heard as the ethereal form of the spire wrapped itself around Alex's body in

touched by something of

body wasn't being

creep into his body. However, the

like the cold sensation

felt the cold sensation enter his head of its

blockage that

moment, the cold sensation gave up trying to get

and he felt like his arm became

jerk his

WHOOOM!

cold wind came out of Alex's left

beneath Alex, and an additional layer of ice

happened at the same

arm instantly

Alex's arm

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

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

left arm had worked with

make a room cold, an air conditioner

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

was

had seemingly done something with the same

had cooled the surroundings, resulting in his left

problems right now and didn't have

of this had happened

after Alex absorbed the ethereal

BOOOOOOOM!

broke through

was over ten meters tall and nearly three meters

through the boulder-like

what this was, and his heart beat

beak of a gigantic octopus!'

already the beak of the octopus was ten meters

of the lake,

probably assumed that Alex was still

grabbed the

looked with

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

octopus had realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire body broke out

go of

Mana to

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

the octopus quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

punched down at the frozen

ice didn't

octopus had used its ice powers to increase the hardness

smashed its tentacles down, its body left the water

thrown itself over 50 meters into the

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was too

him in an

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched towards

him in

forward with

he saw

hedgehog had

wasn't even looking

eyes opened widely with

And then, everything changed!

BANG!