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

ethereal spire

spire's form changed, and it started

was like a soft band made of paper that was being

SSSHH!

sound of sizzling could be heard as the ethereal form of the

felt like he was touched

body wasn't

a cold sensation creep into his body. However, the outside

cold sensation was

felt the cold sensation enter his head of its own

was a blockage that

trying to get

arm regained feeling, and he felt like his arm became even colder

managed to jerk his left arm in

WHOOOM!

cold wind came out of Alex's left

Alex, and an additional layer of

happened

arm instantly

arm felt quite hot

all the cold in his body

stuck in his shoulder,

left arm had worked with the same principles as

room cold, an air conditioner needed to

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

hot temperature was gathered

done something with the

the surroundings, resulting in his

and didn't have any

had happened in just

seconds after Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

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

over ten meters tall and

line went through

his

beak of a gigantic octopus!' he

ten meters long, how huge

the middle of the lake, and it had closed

octopus had probably assumed that

Alex had grabbed the ethereal spire

with terror

BOOOOOOOM!

entire lake

had realized that it had caught nothing, and

couldn't let go of

much Mana to condense

stretched across the lake as

quickly looked around, and they immediately spotted

BOOOOOM!

all punched down

ice

the octopus had used its ice powers to increase the

octopus smashed its tentacles down, its

itself over 50 meters into

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was too

him

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched towards

catch him

looked forward with desperate

he saw made him

hedgehog had turned

even looking at him

opened widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!