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

ethereal spire

form changed, and it

made of

SSSHH!

the ethereal form of

touched by

body wasn't being frozen or

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

like the cold sensation was

cold sensation enter his head of its own

there seemingly was a blockage that stopped

get into Alex's

left arm regained feeling, and he felt

jerk his

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came out

and an additional layer of ice formed on that

shocking happened

arm instantly warmed

arm felt quite hot

had gathered all the cold in

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

was like Alex's left arm had worked with the

make a room cold, an air conditioner needed to transport the heat

of a room was as hot as the outside and the air

hot temperature was gathered and

something with the same principle

resulting in his

and didn't have

this had happened in just three

Alex absorbed the ethereal

BOOOOOOOM!

gigantic, brown… boulder-like thing broke through the

ten meters tall and nearly

line went through

what this was, and his heart beat

the beak of a gigantic octopus!' he

octopus was ten meters long, how huge

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

had probably assumed that

grabbed the ethereal spire while

with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

octopus had realized that it had caught nothing,

couldn't let go

cost too much Mana to condense something

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

eyes of the octopus quickly looked around, and

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down at

ice

because the octopus had used its ice powers

its body left the

50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was too

catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

flying octopus stretched

would catch him in

looked forward with

saw

had turned

even looking at

widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!