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.

hedgehog would probably hear or smell the gigantic beasts. Then, it would run there

that the hedgehog hadn't used his needles earlier since one needle probably cost

something like that big

of why there hadn't been any powerful

stretched through the basin, and logically, there should be a couple of

obviously been consumed

octopus, powerful sea creatures would probably

fight a powerful land creature, emphasis being on attempt, but

useless to Alex, and it was time to

would travel to,

wouldn't go there if I were

nearly stopped in

quickly turned around and saw something he

A human!

An actual human!

robes reminded Alex of several dramas playing in the middle-ages. These were the robes that a dignitary would wear. They radiated splendor and

black beard, making him appear a

Mana

so much

the new

with a

normal to greet others like this on

eyebrow in skepticism when

doing

didn't sound English, but they felt like English to Alex. The man obviously spoke a different language, but Alex

a

a

I

The man nodded.

man pointed at Alex while

Alex's hair stood up.

Was that a spell?!

the man attack

side and ran into

was surprised as he stopped

only looked at Alex running

man spoke a couple

even take him a second to

BOOOOM!

wind appeared behind the man, and his body shot forward with

he had been shot out of

WHOOOM!

of Alex in less than a second, and after another small explosion of wind, his

eyes widened in shock as he looked at the man in front

man had been even

+%&. You

was referring to sounded like pure gibberish. It didn't even sound like an actual word. It was more

Alex knew that he couldn't do anything against the man if he wanted to try something on

was better to

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

body subconsciously absorbed the Mana, and Alex immediately

about what the

black beard in thought. "It's just as

Physi? What's that?"

again as he heard

something wrong with

that can't

uncomfortable expression. 'That sounds like a nickname for a group of people in high school or college. Is that how physical fighters are referred to in this world,