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

it started to curl around

made of paper that was being pulled

SSSHH!

sound of sizzling could be heard as the ethereal form

like he was touched

body wasn't

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

sensation was moving through

sensation enter

there seemingly was a blockage

the cold sensation gave up trying to get into Alex's head, and traveled

arm regained feeling, and he felt like

managed to jerk his left arm

WHOOOM!

cold wind came out of Alex's

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

happened at

arm instantly

Alex's arm felt quite

the cold in his body and had

stuck in his shoulder, was melting

was like Alex's left arm had worked with the

a room cold, an air conditioner needed to

a room was as hot as the outside and the air conditioner was turned

hot temperature was gathered and

had seemingly done something

surroundings, resulting in

now and didn't have any time to analyze

this had happened in just

seconds after Alex absorbed

BOOOOOOOM!

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

was over ten meters tall

went through the

was, and his heart

of a

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

the middle of the

probably assumed that

the ethereal spire while

looked with

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

had caught nothing, and its entire

go of its

Mana

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

the octopus quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

punched down at

ice

used its ice powers to increase the hardness of the

smashed its tentacles down, its body left the water and

meters into the

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

flying

would catch him

looked forward with

he saw made him

hedgehog had

looking at him

opened widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!