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

it started to curl

was like a soft band made of

SSSHH!

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

was touched by something of

body wasn't being frozen

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

like the cold sensation

cold sensation enter his head of its

seemingly was a blockage that stopped it

up trying to get

arm regained feeling, and he felt like his arm became even colder

managed to jerk his left

WHOOOM!

came out of Alex's

wind hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and

shocking happened at the same

arm instantly warmed

Alex's arm felt quite

all the cold

stuck in

worked with the same principles as an air

a room cold, an air conditioner needed to

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

temperature was gathered

done something with the

resulting in his left arm

bigger problems right now and didn't

had happened in

Alex absorbed the ethereal

BOOOOOOOM!

gigantic, brown… boulder-like thing broke through the middle

was over ten meters tall and nearly three meters

through the

his heart beat fiercely in

beak of a gigantic octopus!'

octopus was ten meters long, how huge was the entire

of the lake, and it had

octopus had probably assumed that Alex

Alex had grabbed the

looked with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire lake

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

couldn't let go of

cost too much Mana to condense something

50-meters-long stretched across the lake as a gigantic head came out of the

quickly looked around, and they immediately spotted the running

BOOOOOM!

punched down at the

ice didn't

the octopus had used its ice powers

down, its body left the water and flew

thrown itself over 50 meters into the

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

him

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus

would catch him in

forward

saw made

hedgehog had turned

wasn't even looking at him

widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!