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

spire's form changed, and it started to curl around Alex's

was like a soft band made of paper that

SSSHH!

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

felt like he was touched by something of

wasn't being frozen or

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

was like the cold sensation was moving

enter his

seemingly was a blockage that stopped it

a moment, the cold sensation gave up trying to get

he felt like his arm became even colder

to jerk

WHOOOM!

came

Alex, and an additional layer of ice formed on

something shocking happened at

instantly

Alex's arm felt

all the cold in his body and had

the ice spear, which was stuck in

Alex's left arm had worked with the same principles

make a room cold, an air conditioner needed to

air conditioner was turned on, the inside would become

hot temperature was gathered

done something with the

surroundings, resulting in

problems right now and

this had happened in just three

after Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

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

tall and nearly

line went through

knew what this was, and his heart beat

of a gigantic

already the beak of the octopus was ten meters long,

of the

octopus had probably assumed

Alex had grabbed the ethereal spire

looked with

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

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

couldn't let go

much Mana to condense something like

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

quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

down at

ice didn't

had used its ice

the octopus smashed its tentacles down, its

meters into the air, right towards

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

would catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

flying octopus stretched

him

looked forward

what he saw

had

wasn't even looking at him

widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!