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 became

it started to curl around Alex's

band made

SSSHH!

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

like he was touched by something of terrifying

body wasn't being frozen or

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

like the cold sensation

felt the cold sensation enter his

there seemingly was a blockage that

up trying to get into Alex's head, and traveled towards his

regained feeling, and he felt like his arm

to jerk

WHOOOM!

came out of Alex's

Alex, and an additional

shocking happened at

arm instantly

actuality, Alex's arm felt quite hot

all the cold in

the ice spear, which was stuck in his

arm had worked with the same principles as an

room cold, an air conditioner

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

hot temperature was gathered and

done something with the same

cooled the surroundings, resulting

Alex had far bigger problems right now and didn't have any time to

of this had happened in just

seconds after Alex absorbed the

BOOOOOOOM!

thing broke through the middle

meters tall and nearly three

through the boulder-like

and his heart beat fiercely in his

a gigantic octopus!'

was ten meters long,

the middle of the lake, and it

octopus had probably assumed that Alex

Alex had grabbed the

looked with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

it had caught nothing, and its entire body broke out of the

couldn't let go of

Mana to condense something

across the lake as a gigantic head came out of

the octopus quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

punched down at

the ice didn't

ice

octopus smashed its tentacles down, its body left

meters into the air, right towards

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was

catch him in

'I'm dead!'

the flying octopus stretched

would catch him

looked forward

what he saw made him

hedgehog had turned

wasn't even looking

widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!