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!

like the spire had

spire became

and it started to

a soft band made of paper that

SSSHH!

could be heard as the ethereal form

was touched by

Alex's body wasn't being frozen

body. However, the outside of his

the cold sensation was moving through his

the cold sensation enter

was a blockage that

to get into Alex's head,

regained feeling, and he felt like

to jerk

WHOOOM!

cold wind came out of

and an additional layer

something shocking happened at

instantly

actuality, Alex's arm felt quite hot

had gathered all the cold in his body and had

was stuck in his shoulder,

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

make a room cold, an air conditioner needed to transport

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

was gathered

seemingly done something with the

had cooled the surroundings, resulting in his

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

had happened in just three

after Alex absorbed

BOOOOOOOM!

broke

was over ten meters tall and

through the boulder-like

what this was, and his heart beat

of a

beak of the octopus was ten meters long, how

through the middle of the lake, and it had

probably assumed

the ethereal spire while

with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

had caught nothing, and

let go of its

much Mana

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

of the octopus quickly looked around, and

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down at

the ice

because the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the

smashed its tentacles down, its body left the

thrown itself over 50 meters into the air,

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

would catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched

catch him in a

forward with

saw made

had

looking

widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!