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

spire became

form changed, and it started

band made of paper that was being

SSSHH!

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

like he was touched by something of terrifying

body wasn't being

his body. However, the outside of

sensation

the cold sensation enter his head of its

was a blockage

moment, the cold sensation gave up trying to get into

and he felt like his arm became

managed to jerk his left

WHOOOM!

came out of

the ice cover beneath Alex, and an additional layer of ice formed

shocking happened at the same

arm instantly

Alex's arm felt

had gathered all the cold in his body and

was stuck in his shoulder,

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

room cold, an air conditioner

and the air conditioner was

temperature was gathered

something with the

the surroundings, resulting

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

this had happened

three seconds after Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

brown… boulder-like thing broke through the

meters tall

line went through

knew what this was, and his

beak of a

of the octopus was ten meters long, how huge was the entire

through the middle of the lake, and it

had probably assumed that Alex was

grabbed the

looked with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire lake

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

couldn't let go

too much Mana to

50-meters-long stretched across the lake as a

octopus quickly looked around, and they immediately

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down at the frozen

ice didn't

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

its body left

thrown itself over 50 meters into the air,

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

would catch him

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched towards

catch him in a

forward with desperate

he saw made him

had turned

even looking at

opened widely with

And then, everything changed!

BANG!