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

out of Stalker hide.

pulled his badly sewn hood down, revealing

sorry. I wasn't thinking," Alex said with a bitter smile. "Honestly, I'm not

a bit, but he still spoke to Alex from several

what do you

for an entrance exam in that warrior

man got surprised, but his eyes

are you?"

I should be 15," Alex

15!" the man shouted. "You look more

aback by

Alex sighed. "Let me just take my cloak off. Maybe I look

and only looked at Alex

pulled his cloak off and threw it

was absolutely disgusting,

would wear something like that since they could find better clothing that had been thrown to the

pity

armor and good clothing. After

wear

Alex's body really looked like the

different bodies from adults. This was simply because they hadn't fully

couldn't explain the differences, but with enough life experience,

just a

the

Alex's sword looked weird.

basically had no handguard, and the blade itself was way too straight and uniform. Swords usually went from thick to thin, thick at the hilt,

straight, except for the

the man could tell that the sword was

made a lot

that had lived in

in the wild for so long?"

a sigh of relief when the

Silence.

put his spear away. "That's quite some determination," he

his sword and threw

the ground, and

forward and

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

one arm, but he couldn't possibly

the sword and

throw your weapon over

that I don't have any bad intentions,"

as he felt

how Alex had easily thrown it over with

like the

sword if you had bad intentions towards the village?" he asked

Alex said with

is this display of

frustration and rubbed the back of

play these stupid games. Obviously, you now know of my strength. If I wanted to do anything to your village, I wouldn't be talking with you. I would just

was honestly getting annoyed