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!

the spire

spire

spire's form changed, and it started to curl

band made of paper that was being pulled

SSSHH!

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

he was touched

Alex's body wasn't being frozen

creep into his body. However, the outside of his body started

sensation was moving through

enter his head

was a blockage that stopped

to get into

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

jerk

WHOOOM!

a terrifyingly cold wind came

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

happened

instantly

arm

all the cold in his body and

spear, which was stuck

was like Alex's left arm had worked with the same

a room cold, an air conditioner needed to

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

hot temperature was gathered

arm had seemingly done something with the same

surroundings, resulting

now and didn't have any time

this had happened in

Alex absorbed the

BOOOOOOOM!

thing broke through the

was over ten meters tall and nearly three

line went through the boulder-like

what this was, and his heart beat fiercely in his

of a gigantic

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

of the lake, and it

had probably assumed that Alex was still

the

with terror behind

BOOOOOOOM!

the entire

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

couldn't let go of

cost too much Mana to

lake as a

the octopus quickly looked around, and

BOOOOOM!

tentacles all punched down at the

the ice

its ice powers to

smashed its tentacles down, its body left

itself over 50 meters

Alex's heart nearly stopped.

octopus was

catch him in

'I'm dead!'

tentacles of the flying octopus stretched towards

him in a

looked forward

saw made

hedgehog had

looking at him

eyes opened widely with terrified

And then, everything changed!

BANG!