Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex ran towards the village. He actually didn't need to run since he had plenty of time, but Alex just couldn't control himself after arriving in an area without an overwhelming number of trees.

'I can run so fast!' Alex thought with exhilaration.

As Alex ran down the hill, some birds living in cold climates flew above him. They were searching for prey, but there was not much prey during the cold.

The winter was slowly making way for spring, but spring wasn't completely there yet. If Alex had to put a month to the current weather, he would say it would be the end of February or the start of March.

Alex ran for about fifteen minutes, and he arrived at the village far too early.

In a sense, Alex had wished to run more.

'I can always run more later,' Alex thought with a smile.

As Alex came to the village, he noticed that there were no guards.

There were also no pedestrians.

In fact, there was no one.

Alex blinked a couple of times in confusion.

'That's weird. I was sure I saw some people walking around.'

Alex looked around the abandoned village and thought of something.

'Is it me?' Alex thought.

Alex looked around the village. It was currently in the middle of the day, and all the villagers should be working.

"Who are you?!" someone suddenly shouted.

Alex looked to the front and saw a burly, middle-aged man walking past a house.

He had a spear and wore some simple leather armor. His hair was brown, and a long and scruffy beard adorned his face.

Alex immediately associated that man with a smith.

He looked like the typical smith one would find in movies and shows.

"Hello, I'm… Shang," Alex said nervously. He had nearly wanted to say his original name again.

"What do you want?!" the man shouted aggressively. "We don't have any money, and we are protected by the Northern Wild!"

Alex smiled in embarrassment. "I think you misunderstood me. I'm not here to do anything to you."

"Lies!" the man shouted. "You charged at our village! Speak the truth, or I will kill you myself!"

Alex scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "I ran because it felt good."

"It felt good?" the man asked in surprise.

"Yes," Alex answered. "I've been in a forest for the past six months, and this is the first time I'm at a place not filled with trees. Running down the mountain and feeling my new power after my trip just felt too good."

The man eyed Alex suspiciously. "Is that why you are dressed like a thief?" he asked coldly.

"Like a thief?" Alex asked in surprise.

looked

body was surrounded by the cloak made out of Stalker hide. Even

felt like an idiot and quickly pulled his badly sewn

said with a bitter smile. "Honestly, I'm

relaxed a bit, but he still spoke

do you want?"

for an entrance exam in that

got surprised, but

are you?"

15," Alex said. "I didn't really

man shouted. "You look more

aback

me just take my cloak off. Maybe I look too intimidating with

and only

off and threw it to

disgusting, dirty, stinky,

like that since they could find better clothing that had been thrown to the side

and pity

and good clothing. After all,

would wear something like

man noticed that Alex's body really looked like

This was simply because they hadn't fully

but with enough life experience, one would immediately see that Alex was a

was just

cloak was removed, the man also saw

Alex's sword looked weird.

handguard, and the blade itself was way too straight and uniform.

the tip where the sword suddenly narrowed down into

could tell that

made a

lived in the wild for

in the wild

of relief when the man

Silence.

away. "That's quite some determination,"

out his sword and

on the ground, and the man looked

walked forward and lifted the

far heavier than he had thought, and he had to put more strength into

one arm, but he couldn't possibly swing it,

at the sword

throw your weapon over to me?"

that I don't have any bad

as he

had easily thrown it over with

been like the sword

if you had bad

said with

this display of yours?" the man

sighed in frustration and rubbed the back of

of my

honestly getting annoyed