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 spire had been

spire

and it started to curl around Alex's

like a soft band made of

SSSHH!

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

touched by something of terrifying

body wasn't being

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

was like the cold sensation

the cold sensation enter his

a blockage that stopped it from

cold sensation gave up trying to get into Alex's head, and traveled towards his frozen arm

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

to jerk his

WHOOOM!

came out of

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

shocking happened at

arm instantly

actuality, Alex's arm felt quite

the cold in his body and had

ice spear, which was stuck in his shoulder, was melting

was like Alex's left arm had worked with the same

room cold, an air conditioner needed to transport the

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

hot temperature was gathered and

seemingly done something with the same

had cooled the surroundings, resulting

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

happened in just

three seconds after Alex absorbed the ethereal

BOOOOOOOM!

brown… boulder-like thing broke through the middle of the

ten meters tall

through

this was, and his heart beat fiercely in

a gigantic

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

middle of the

probably assumed that Alex

the

looked with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

nothing, and its entire body broke out of

couldn't let go

much Mana to

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

quickly looked around,

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down at the frozen

ice didn't

had used its ice powers to

down, its body left the water and flew towards

meters into the

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was

him

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched

catch him in a

forward with desperate

what he saw made him

had turned

even looking

opened widely with

And then, everything changed!

BANG!