Sword God in a World of Magic

What had the hedgehog spat out?

Something brown hit the ground. It almost looked like a regular piece of earth.

However, the brown piece of earth quickly dissolved into mist, which gathered in the air above it.

In the end, some brown mist had formed in the shape of a spear, and several clumps of earth materialized in the air and fell to the ground.

Alex almost couldn't believe it.

It was another ethereal spire!

However, it also seemed logical to Alex.

If the octopus could create an ethereal spire, why couldn't the hedgehog?

From what he had seen, the octopus' ethereal spire had something to do with the Ice Element, and the hedgehog's ethereal spire was obviously of the Earth Element.

Could Alex have two ethereal spires in his body?

Alex walked over to the ethereal spire, which was slowly being burrowed by the earth forming around it.

'I should first try my right arm,' Alex thought. 'I don't know if the two spires will cancel each other out or something.'

'I just hope I won't explode or something.'

Alex put his sword to the side and touched the brown ethereal spire with his right hand.

The spire wrapped itself around Alex's right arm and vanished into Alex's body.

Alex felt how the ethereal spire moved throughout his body.

First, it traveled through his right arm to his head.

However, just like with the previous one, this ethereal spire seemingly couldn't reach Alex's mind. It was like something was blocking its way.

After that, the ethereal spire went to Alex's left arm, and Alex became nervous.

How would the spires interact?

Alex felt how the brown ethereal spire entered his left arm and then…

Nothing happened.

After a bit, it exited Alex's left arm and went to his legs.

Then, it inspected Alex's torso.

Lastly, the ethereal spire went back to Alex's head.

"Huuurgh!"

felt like he had barfed, and the ethereal spire left Alex's body

front of him and simply

times as

do with the strange Affinity

at

not so sure. The God told me that my Affinity would be very special, and, honestly, if I had an Ice Affinity, my left arm probably wouldn't heat up if I used that spire. I

back of his

At the same time, it probably has nothing to do with Earth. Wonder what it

looked at the hedgehog with a

can't use that!" Alex

looked

steps away

Slurp!

a second, the hedgehog slurped up the

it hadn't been comfortable with handing something like that

why it had thought over its decision for so

hedgehog walked away from the octopus and began violently

Plonk! Plonk! Plonk!

avalanche of fruit fell off the hedgehog's

completely

There were hundreds!

Alex's eyes widened.

knew how powerful these

tentacle

hedgehog seemed rather happy with that

had appeared neutral when it

gave Alex the ethereal spire, it

the fruit, it seemingly

This meant:

fruits < tentacle < ethereal

steal by absorbing that ice spire,'

these fruits?' Alex thought as he scratched his

several mountains of fruits,

Alex sighed.

them. Well, let's forget about returning home. I can

at the blizzard

keep myself warm. As my blood travels through my left arm, the temperature of my arm will be distributed along my body. As long as it's not too cold, that's enough to heat my entire body. It's essentially not any different from what my body is naturally

Crunch!

the mountains and saw

as soon as you're no longer in danger," Alex

returned and had eaten one

so

lizard mostly ignored Alex. After eating the fruit, it went over to a tree, climbed it,

also went over and ate one of the