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.

Alex looked down at

made out of Stalker hide. Even part of his head was hidden

immediately felt like an idiot and quickly pulled his

a bitter smile. "Honestly, I'm not here

relaxed a bit, but he still spoke to Alex from several

what do you want?"

earn enough money to pay for an entrance exam

surprised, but

are you?"

think I should be 15,"

man shouted. "You look more

aback by the

take my cloak off. Maybe I

answer and only looked at

off and threw it to the

disgusting, dirty, stinky, full of holes,

could find

man looked with disgust and pity at Alex. Surprisingly,

normally wear quite good armor and good clothing. After all, their job was to

wear something

body really looked like the body of a teenager, just far more

simply because they hadn't

explain the differences, but with enough life experience, one would immediately

was just

the cloak was removed, the

Alex's sword looked weird.

the blade itself was way too straight and uniform. Swords usually went from thick to

for the tip where the sword

tell that the sword was very

a lot more

like someone that had lived

have you lived in the wild for so long?" the

relief when the man

Silence.

quite some determination," he said. "Can

simply took out his

and the

forward and

sword was far heavier than he had thought, and he had to

with one arm, but he couldn't possibly

at the sword and

your weapon

don't have

brows as he

Alex had easily thrown it over with

like the sword

need this sword if you had bad

said

display

and rubbed the

know of my strength. If I wanted to do anything to your village, I wouldn't

getting annoyed