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 had been

spire became

form changed, and it started

soft band made of paper that was being

SSSHH!

sizzling could be heard as the ethereal form of

touched by something of

Alex's body wasn't being

However, the outside of his body started to warm up

like the cold sensation was moving through his

the cold sensation enter his

there seemingly was a blockage that stopped it

cold sensation gave up trying to get into

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

to jerk

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came out of

Alex, and an additional layer

shocking happened at the

instantly

actuality, Alex's arm

had gathered all the cold

the ice spear, which was stuck in his shoulder, was melting

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

order to make a room cold, an air

and the air conditioner was turned on,

hot temperature was

had seemingly done something with the same principle

surroundings, resulting in his left arm becoming

and didn't have any

this had happened in just

seconds after Alex

BOOOOOOOM!

gigantic, brown… boulder-like thing broke

tall and nearly

through the boulder-like

knew what this was, and his heart beat fiercely

the beak of a gigantic octopus!'

ten

of the lake, and it

octopus had probably assumed that Alex was

grabbed the ethereal

with

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire lake

had realized that it had caught nothing, and its entire body broke out of

couldn't let go

cost too much Mana to condense something like

as a

octopus quickly looked around, and they

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down

ice

the octopus had used its ice

the octopus smashed its tentacles down, its body left

had thrown itself over 50 meters into the air, right

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

was too

catch him in an

'I'm dead!'

the flying octopus stretched towards

catch him in a

looked forward with desperate

what he saw

hedgehog had

wasn't even looking at him

eyes opened widely

And then, everything changed!

BANG!