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!"

like he had barfed, and the ethereal

landed in front of him and

couple of times as he

can't use that. Does it have something to do with the strange Affinity the God was telling me

looked at his left

Ice Affinity?' Alex thought. 'Honestly, I'm 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 can't imagine every Ice Mage burning

scratched the back

Affinity obviously has something to do with Ice, but it probably isn't pure Ice. At the

hedgehog

I can't use that!" Alex

looked

took two steps away from the

Slurp!

a second, the hedgehog

hadn't been comfortable with handing something like that

it had thought over its decision for so

hedgehog walked away from the octopus

Plonk! Plonk! Plonk!

avalanche of fruit fell

completely empty

There were hundreds!

Alex's eyes widened.

how powerful these

to a single tentacle of the

more, the hedgehog seemed rather happy with that

neutral when

it gave Alex the ethereal spire, it

fruit,

This meant:

of fruits < tentacle

a steal by absorbing that ice

these fruits?'

mountains of fruits, all

Alex sighed.

of them. Well, let's forget about

the blizzard

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

Crunch!

looked at one of the mountains and

no longer in danger," Alex said with a sarcastic tone

returned and had eaten one of the

dealing with the bear, so you can get some of the fruits," Alex

it went

went over and ate