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

spire became

changed, and it started to curl around Alex's

was like a soft band made of paper

SSSHH!

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

felt like he was touched by

body wasn't

his body. However, the outside of his body started

like the cold sensation was moving through

felt the cold sensation enter his head of its

there seemingly was a blockage

get into Alex's head, and traveled towards his frozen arm

arm regained feeling, and he felt like his arm became

managed to jerk his

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came out of Alex's

and an additional layer of ice formed

happened at the

arm instantly warmed

Alex's arm felt quite hot

gathered all the cold in

which was stuck in

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

make a room cold, an air conditioner needed

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

was gathered

something with the

the surroundings, resulting in his

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

of this had happened in just three

Alex absorbed the

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke through the middle

meters tall and nearly three meters

went through

this was, and his

beak of a

was ten meters

middle of the

octopus had probably assumed that Alex was still

the ethereal spire

looked with

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

octopus had realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire

couldn't let go

too much Mana to

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

quickly looked around, and they immediately spotted the

BOOOOOM!

down at the frozen

the ice

because the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the

smashed its tentacles down, its body left the water

itself over 50 meters into the air,

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

would catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

the flying

catch him in a

forward with

saw made

had

even looking at him

widely with

And then, everything changed!

BANG!