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

the cloak made out of Stalker hide. Even

like an idiot and quickly pulled

wasn't thinking," Alex said with a bitter smile. "Honestly, I'm not here to do anything

but he still spoke to

what do you want?"

pay for an entrance exam in that warrior school

but his eyes

old are you?" he

be 15," Alex said. "I

15!" the man shouted. "You look more

taken aback

me just take my cloak off. Maybe I

didn't answer and only looked at Alex

cloak off and threw

clothing beneath his cloak was absolutely disgusting, dirty, stinky, full of holes, and

even beggars would wear something like that since they could find better clothing that had been thrown

disgust and pity at Alex. Surprisingly, his hostility

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

bandit would wear something like

the man noticed that Alex's body really looked like

This was simply because

enough life experience, one would immediately see that

just a

the cloak was removed, the

Alex's sword looked weird.

basically had no handguard, and the blade itself was way too straight and uniform.

was just incredibly straight, except for the

man could tell that

a lot more sense

that had lived in the wild for a long

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

sigh of relief when the man calmed down.

Silence.

away. "That's quite some determination," he said. "Can I see

took out his sword

on the ground, and the man looked at Alex with

forward

heavier than he had thought,

he couldn't possibly swing it, not even

at the sword

did you throw your weapon over

that I don't have any bad

brows as he felt the

Alex had easily thrown it over

been like the

you need this sword if you had bad intentions

said

this display of yours?" the man

and rubbed the back of

you now know of my strength. If I wanted

honestly getting annoyed at the constant