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 been

ethereal spire became

and it started to

band made of paper that was being pulled

SSSHH!

could be heard as the ethereal form

was touched by something of terrifying

body wasn't being frozen or

cold sensation creep into his body. However, the outside of his body started

like the cold sensation was moving

enter his head

was a blockage that stopped it from

a moment, the cold sensation gave up trying to get into Alex's head,

feeling, and he felt like his arm became

barely managed to jerk

WHOOOM!

wind came out of

cold wind hit the ice cover beneath Alex, and an additional layer of ice

happened at the

arm instantly warmed

Alex's arm felt

all the cold in

was stuck in his shoulder, was melting

had worked with the

order to make a room cold, an air conditioner needed

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

hot temperature was

done something with the same

cooled the surroundings, resulting in his

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

had happened

seconds after Alex absorbed

BOOOOOOOM!

brown… boulder-like thing broke through the

was over ten meters tall and nearly three meters

through

knew what this was, and his heart beat fiercely

beak of a gigantic

was ten meters long, how huge was the

beak had punched through the middle of the lake,

had probably assumed that Alex

the ethereal spire while

with

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire lake

that it had caught nothing, and its entire

let go of its

too much Mana to condense something

nearly 50-meters-long stretched across the lake as a

around, and they

BOOOOOM!

all punched down at the

the ice didn't

because the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the

tentacles down, its body left the water and flew

had thrown itself over 50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

him

'I'm dead!'

flying octopus

catch him in a

forward with

saw made

had

wasn't even looking

eyes opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!