Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex gathered everything he owned and checked if he got everything.

After looking over his broken shed one more time, he nodded in appreciation.

Then, Alex jogged towards the south.

It had been about half a year since he had arrived in this world, and today, he would finally leave this wilderness!

He had killed the ice bear about two or three months ago, and he had already used up all of the fruits he had gotten from the hedgehog.

Near the end, Alex had realized that the fruits weren't that useful anymore.

He would need over ten fruits for one attempted suicide of training.

That wasn't so bad, and Alex could still get some use out of the fruits.

However, there was a problem.

For the past three days, the hedgehog had refused to appear in front of Alex.

No matter how much he searched or how many fires Alex lit, the hedgehog just wouldn't come out anymore.

Without the hedgehog, Alex's progress had slowed down severely. Now, he could only train with the normal meditation, which felt far too slow to him.

Additionally, Alex hadn't found another beast on the level of the ice bear in the past couple of months.

Sure, Alex had found a couple new creatures, but they were all about as strong as the Stalker.

By now, Alex could beat a Stalker without even needing to use his sword.

His body was just that powerful.

Because of that, Alex had decided that it was time for him to leave the safety of the basin.

It was time to see the wider world!

Alex jogged leisurely, but he still moved faster than the fastest human on Earth could sprint.

The trees acted as obstacles, which made Alex's journey a bit awkward, but he arrived at the edge of the basin in about an hour.

If he could run in a straight line, he could easily get there in less than half an hour.

Alex touched his new coat and kept hold of his sword.

He didn't know what would await him on the other side of the mountain.

The basin was surrounded by mountains, and Alex would be traveling through a natural pathway between two of the mountains. He would need to awkwardly climb to a height of about 500 meters to pass the mountains. That wasn't really hard for his new body, but it was still higher than all of the trees in the forest.

Even more, Alex wouldn't be surrounded by the forest anymore. Any beast would be able to see him as soon as he started climbing the mountain.

Alex still remembered the gigantic lizard he had seen near the mountains on his first day.

Alex was uncertain if he could win against such a beast.

At least, the mystery of why no truly powerful beast entered the basin had been solved.

It was obviously the hedgehog.

In the past, Alex had been unsure of why no powerful beast had been here. After all, the hedgehog couldn't be everywhere at once, right?

Well, in a certain sense, the hedgehog could be everywhere at once.

Its needles could.

gigantic beasts. Then, it would

that the hedgehog hadn't used his needles earlier since one needle probably cost it more Mana or energy than the prey was

that big lizard, it would

why there hadn't been any powerful sea creatures had also

logically, there should be a couple of powerful

obviously

of the octopus, powerful sea creatures would probably appear in

creature, emphasis being on attempt, but he wouldn't have any chance when fighting such a creature in the

become useless to Alex, and it was

travel to, took a deep breath, and

there if I were

heart nearly

something he hadn't seen in over

A human!

An actual human!

These robes reminded Alex of several dramas playing in the middle-ages. These were the robes that a dignitary would

black

Alex felt Mana

so

in the new world! Don't be

Alex said with a slightly

was normal to greet others like this on the

raised an eyebrow in skepticism

doing

that the words didn't sound English, but they felt like English to Alex. The man obviously spoke a different language, but Alex felt like he was speaking

a weird

a badly dubbed

been living here for the past six months, and I lived in

The man nodded.

at Alex while reciting some confusing

Alex's hair stood up.

Was that a spell?!

man attack

side and

man was surprised

only looked at Alex

spoke a

even take him a

BOOOOM!

explosion of wind appeared behind the man, and his body shot

had been

WHOOOM!

than a second,

as he looked at the man

now, the man had been even faster than the

said evenly. "My first word was +%&. You should know that this word is reserved for

sounded like pure gibberish. It didn't even sound like an actual word. It was more like a weird combination of noises that made

the man if he

was better to simply follow

spoke the same words again, and after a while, Alex felt Mana gather around

Mana, and Alex immediately

confused about what the man

black beard in thought.

Physi? What's that?" Alex

raised his eyebrow again as

wrong with

someone that can't practice Magic," the

Alex thought with an uncomfortable expression. 'That sounds like a nickname for a group of people in high school or college. Is that how physical fighters are referred