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

ethereal spire

it started to curl around

band made of paper that

SSSHH!

form of the spire wrapped itself

felt like he was touched by

Alex's body wasn't being frozen

However, the outside of his body started to warm up

like the cold sensation

felt the cold sensation enter his

seemingly was a blockage

to get into Alex's head,

left arm regained feeling, and he felt like his arm became

to jerk his

WHOOOM!

wind came out of Alex's

beneath Alex, and an

something shocking happened at the

arm instantly warmed

actuality, Alex's arm felt quite

Alex had gathered all the cold in his body

the ice spear, which was stuck in his shoulder,

worked with the same principles as an

cold, an air conditioner needed to transport the heat

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

was gathered and

arm had seemingly done something

cooled the surroundings, resulting in his left

bigger problems right now and didn't have any time

of this had happened in just three

Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

broke through

over ten meters tall and nearly three meters

line went through the boulder-like

this was, and his

a gigantic octopus!'

octopus was ten meters long, how

punched through the middle of

assumed that Alex was still

grabbed the ethereal spire while

with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

gigantic octopus had realized that it had caught nothing, and its

let go

Mana to condense something like

lake as a

octopus quickly looked around, and they immediately

BOOOOOM!

down

the ice

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

tentacles down, its body

had thrown itself over 50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

him in an

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus

would catch him

looked forward with desperate

what he saw

had turned

even looking at him

widely with

And then, everything changed!

BANG!