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

it started to curl

made of paper

SSSHH!

sizzling could be heard as the ethereal form of

touched by something of terrifying

body wasn't being

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

like the cold sensation was moving through

felt the cold sensation enter his head of its

was a blockage that stopped

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

felt like his arm became even colder

jerk his left arm

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came

Alex, and

happened

instantly

actuality, Alex's arm felt quite hot

gathered all the cold in his body and had

spear, which was stuck

Alex's left arm had worked with the same principles

to make a room cold, an air conditioner needed

hot as the outside and the air conditioner

hot temperature was gathered

seemingly done something

resulting in his left arm becoming

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

happened in just

three seconds after Alex absorbed

BOOOOOOOM!

brown… boulder-like thing broke through the middle of the

over ten meters tall and

went through the

was, and his heart beat

beak of a gigantic octopus!'

the octopus was ten meters long, how huge was

middle of the

assumed that Alex

the ethereal

looked with

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

that it had caught nothing, and its entire body broke

go of

cost too much Mana

the lake as a gigantic head

looked around, and they immediately spotted

BOOOOOM!

all punched down

the ice

because the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the hardness of

tentacles down, its body left the water

thrown itself over 50 meters

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

him

'I'm dead!'

the flying octopus stretched

would catch him

forward with

what he saw made

had turned

looking

opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!