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

spire became

and it started to

band made of paper that

SSSHH!

sound of sizzling could be heard as the ethereal form of the spire wrapped itself

was touched

Alex's body wasn't being

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

sensation was moving through

sensation enter his head

seemingly was a blockage that

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

he felt like his

jerk

WHOOOM!

terrifyingly cold wind came out of Alex's

ice cover beneath Alex, and an additional layer of ice formed on

shocking happened at

instantly warmed

Alex's arm

all the cold in his body and had expelled

was stuck in

like Alex's left arm had worked with the

air conditioner needed to transport the heat somewhere

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

was gathered and

arm had seemingly done something with

cooled the surroundings, resulting in his left arm becoming

problems right now and didn't have

of this had happened in just

three seconds after Alex absorbed the

BOOOOOOOM!

boulder-like thing broke through the middle

ten meters tall and nearly three meters

through the

and his

of a gigantic octopus!' he

the octopus was ten meters long, how

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

octopus had probably assumed that Alex was

grabbed the

with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

caught nothing, and its entire body broke out of

couldn't let go

Mana to condense

across the lake as a gigantic

quickly looked around, and

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down at the frozen

ice didn't

used its ice

smashed its tentacles down, its

thrown itself over 50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

him in an

'I'm dead!'

flying octopus

catch him

looked forward with desperate

saw made

hedgehog had turned

wasn't even looking

eyes opened widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!