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

spire

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

was like a soft band made of paper that

SSSHH!

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

he was touched

Alex's body wasn't being frozen

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

like the cold sensation was moving

felt the cold sensation enter his

seemingly was a blockage that stopped it

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

arm regained feeling, and he felt

managed to jerk his left arm in

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came

wind hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and an

something shocking happened at the same

arm instantly warmed

actuality, Alex's arm felt quite hot

Alex had gathered all the cold in his body and

ice spear, which was stuck in his shoulder, was

arm had worked with the

a room cold, an air conditioner needed to transport

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

was

something with the same

had cooled the surroundings, resulting in his left

had far bigger problems right now and didn't

of this had happened

three seconds after Alex absorbed the ethereal

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke

ten meters tall and nearly three

went through the

this was, and his heart

of a

was ten meters long, how huge was the entire

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

assumed that Alex was

grabbed the

with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

it had caught nothing, and its entire body

go of its

much Mana to

stretched across the lake as a gigantic head

looked around, and they immediately

BOOOOOM!

all punched down

ice didn't

octopus had used its ice powers to increase

tentacles down, its body left the water and

thrown itself over 50 meters into the air, right towards

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was too

would catch him

'I'm dead!'

of the flying octopus stretched towards

catch him in

looked forward

he saw made

hedgehog had

looking at

widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!