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!

was like the

ethereal spire became

changed, and it started to curl

like a soft band made of paper that was being pulled

SSSHH!

the ethereal form of the spire

was touched by something of terrifying

body wasn't being

creep into his body. However, the

the cold sensation was moving through his

cold sensation enter his head of its own

seemingly was a blockage that stopped it from

gave up trying to get into Alex's head, and traveled towards his frozen

regained feeling, and he felt like his arm

jerk his left arm

WHOOOM!

came

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

shocking happened at the same

arm instantly

actuality, Alex's arm felt quite hot

all the

spear, which was stuck in his shoulder, was melting

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

order to make a room cold, an air conditioner needed

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

temperature was

arm had seemingly done something with the same principle

the surroundings, resulting

had far bigger problems right now and didn't have any time

happened

after Alex absorbed the

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke

was over ten meters tall and nearly

through the

what this was, and his heart

beak of a

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

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

probably assumed that

the ethereal spire while

with

BOOOOOOOM!

entire

had realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire body

go of its

cost too much Mana to condense

across the lake as a gigantic head came out of the

looked around, and they immediately spotted the running

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down

the ice

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

tentacles down, its body left the water and

itself over 50 meters into

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

of the flying octopus

him

looked forward with

saw

had turned

looking

opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!