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 became

and it

was like a soft band made of

SSSHH!

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

felt like he was touched by

Alex's body wasn't being

body. However, the outside of his body

the cold sensation was moving through his

enter his head of

there seemingly was a blockage that

gave up trying to get into Alex's

feeling, and he felt

barely managed to jerk

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came out

ice cover beneath Alex, and an additional layer of

shocking happened at

arm instantly warmed

Alex's arm

was like Alex had gathered all the cold in his body and had

was stuck in his shoulder, was

Alex's left arm had worked with the same principles as an air

to make a room cold, an air conditioner needed

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

was gathered

had seemingly done something

the surroundings, resulting in his left arm

now and didn't have any time to

happened in

three seconds after Alex absorbed the ethereal

BOOOOOOOM!

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

ten meters tall and

line went through the

his heart beat fiercely

a gigantic octopus!'

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

had punched through the middle of the lake,

probably assumed

Alex had grabbed the ethereal

with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire body broke out of the

couldn't let go of its

cost too much Mana to condense something

lake as

octopus quickly looked around, and they immediately spotted

BOOOOOM!

down at the

ice didn't

was because the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the hardness of

tentacles down, its

meters into the

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

would catch him

'I'm dead!'

of the flying

would catch him in a

forward

saw made

hedgehog had turned

looking

opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!