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

changed, and it started

like a soft band made

SSSHH!

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

felt like he was touched by something of terrifying

Alex's body wasn't being frozen or

body. However, the outside of his body

sensation was

sensation enter

blockage that stopped

trying to get

and he felt like

barely managed to jerk

WHOOOM!

terrifyingly cold wind came out of

wind hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and an

something shocking happened at the same

instantly warmed

arm felt quite

Alex had gathered all the cold

ice spear, which was stuck

Alex's left arm had worked with

make a room cold, an air conditioner needed to transport the

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

was

had seemingly done something with

surroundings, resulting in his left arm becoming

far bigger problems right now and didn't

this had happened in just three

seconds after Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke through the middle of

ten meters tall and

line went through

this was, and his heart beat fiercely

beak of a

beak of the octopus was ten

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

octopus had probably assumed

Alex had grabbed the ethereal

with

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire lake

had realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire

go of

cost too much Mana

the lake as a

looked around, and they immediately spotted the

BOOOOOM!

down at the frozen

the ice

ice powers to increase the hardness of

the octopus smashed its tentacles down, its body left the water and flew

thrown itself over 50 meters

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

would catch him

'I'm dead!'

of the flying

him in a

looked forward with desperate

saw made him

had turned

even looking at him

opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!