Sword God in a World of Magic

After the gate opened, Alex stepped through it.

Society!

Finally, he was back amongst humans!

"Did you get a good harvest?" the guard from earlier asked Alex with a smirk.

Alex immediately became nervous.

Would they confiscate his belongings?

When the guards saw Alex's reaction, they laughed. Obviously, after confirming the authenticity of Alex's document, they had all relaxed.

"You don't need to worry. If the Duke wanted us to inspect your belongings, he would have written it down on your document," one of the guards said. The guard walked closer and put his hand on Alex's shoulder.

At least, he tried to.

Alex stepped away from the hand out of reflex.

After living in the wilderness for such a long time, Alex became careful of any physical contact.

The guard blinked in confusion as he saw Alex step away, and he awkwardly lowered his hand.

"Man, you're a suspicious one," the guard said with a bitter smile.

Alex became a bit embarrassed. "Sorry. I've been in the wilderness for six whole months. I'm not used to talking with other humans."

The guard smiled and nodded. "That's understandable. We also have to live in the wilderness as part of our training, but we have our team with us. I can't imagine how lonely it must have been to be all alone in a forest."

The entire feeling and atmosphere the guards gave off had changed.

The guards had appeared stalwart, careful, and aggressive when Alex had come.

But now, the guards didn't feel any different than the police on Earth.

They simply talked to Alex casually.

"That's a nice sword," one of the guards said as he looked at Alex's sword. "Who made that?"

Alex subconsciously protected his sword. "I don't remember," he said.

Surprisingly, the guard nodded understandingly. Apparently, Duke Whirlwind had written about Alex's memory loss in the document he had handed Alex.

"Too bad. Hey, you really don't need to be that careful. Our equipment is good enough, and if it gets out that we are trying to steal from one of the Duke's guests, our heads will roll," the guard said.

Alex wasn't sure how he should respond to that.

He had already said sorry earlier, and saying sorry again would sound awkward.

Instead, an awkward silence came down on the camp of guards.

show you where you need to go," another guard said, pointing

thank you," Alex said, happy that

outside, kid," one of the guards said with

too," Alex

was really unused to talking to

a very extroverted person. He loved going out with his friends, and he had had

such a long

eyes subconsciously darted to the guards' weaknesses and their

break

the camp behind as

around two minutes, the guard in front

guard turned around and threw Alex a concerned look. "You really

what?" Alex

guard pointed at

following behind me in total silence. Your footsteps even copy my footsteps! Then, you constantly inspect my body all over. You don't act like a warrior, but like an

I need to turn around since I can't hear you, and I always think that you vanished or something. On top of that, whenever I turn around, I see how you're inspecting my body with narrowed eyes. It's like you're trying to find the best spot to kill

away from the guard with

exactly what he

hadn't truly planned on attacking the guard. It was simply a reflex born out of being around nothing but

the guard saw Alex's expression, he relaxed a bit and sighed. "Listen, we warriors can deal with that. We know how it feels to be among normal humans again after a long period of fighting. However,

that you are a shady creep. You give off this thief or bandit vibe. Honestly, I'm fairly sure that you will find plenty of women pushing their child away from you and plenty of men that

to human society again," the guard

hearing, but he had to

had to get used

and thank you for the advice. I'll try to work on that," Alex

right now,"

lifted an eyebrow

the side. "Walk in front of

Alex immediately became nervous.

was probably a bit more

behind,

Alex's mind, this was

guard saw Alex's hesitation and

is your name, right?" he

Alex nodded.

you this entire time. How

was surprised by

your

with it? No! Not every human wants to

you. Do you honestly think I would even dare to do anything against you? If I did, chances

"I would be executed."

"For what?"

a sword and

Silence.

felt like he was

want to turn his back to

that everything the guard had said was

didn't want to, he still passed the guard and walked