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!

was like the

spire became

and it

a soft band made

SSSHH!

could be heard as the ethereal form

touched by

Alex's body wasn't being

However, the outside of his

like the cold sensation

the cold sensation enter his head of its own

there seemingly was a blockage that

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

felt like his arm became even

jerk his left arm in

WHOOOM!

came out of Alex's

and an additional layer of ice formed on

something shocking happened at

arm instantly warmed

Alex's arm

gathered all the cold in

ice spear, which was stuck in his

Alex's left arm had worked with the same principles

to make a room cold, an air conditioner needed to

air conditioner was turned on,

hot temperature was

arm had seemingly done something with the same principle

had cooled the surroundings, resulting in

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

happened in just

Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

broke through the middle

was over ten meters tall and nearly three

through the

was, and his heart

beak of a

octopus was ten

had punched through the middle of the

octopus had probably assumed

Alex had grabbed the ethereal

looked with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire body

let go of its

much Mana to condense something

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

eyes of the octopus quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

down at the frozen

the ice didn't

the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the

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

had thrown itself over 50 meters into the air, right towards

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

would catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

flying octopus stretched

would catch him in

looked forward

saw

hedgehog had turned

even looking

eyes opened widely with

And then, everything changed!

BANG!