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!

the

ethereal spire became

changed, and it

a soft band made of paper

SSSHH!

as the ethereal form of the spire wrapped itself around Alex's body

he was touched by something of terrifying

Alex's body wasn't

into his body. However, the outside of

cold sensation was moving

enter his head of its own

a blockage that stopped it from

the cold sensation gave up trying to get

Alex's left arm regained feeling, and he felt like his arm became even

barely managed to jerk his left arm

WHOOOM!

terrifyingly cold wind came out of

cover beneath Alex, and an additional layer of ice formed on that

happened at

instantly

Alex's arm felt quite hot

had gathered all the cold in his body and had expelled

which was stuck in his shoulder,

arm had worked with the

an air conditioner

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

temperature was

seemingly done something with the same

the surroundings, resulting in his left arm becoming

right now and didn't have any time to analyze

had happened

after Alex absorbed

BOOOOOOOM!

broke

ten meters tall and nearly

through

this was, and his heart beat

the beak of a

of the octopus was ten meters long, how huge was

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

assumed that

had grabbed the ethereal spire

with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

caught nothing, and its entire

let go of

much Mana

the lake as

quickly looked around, and they immediately spotted the running

BOOOOOM!

punched down at

ice didn't

because the octopus had used its ice powers to increase

its

had thrown itself over 50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

would catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

of the flying octopus stretched towards

would catch him

forward with

he saw made

hedgehog had

even looking

opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!