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

of Stalker hide. Even part of his head was

immediately felt like an idiot and quickly pulled his badly sewn

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

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

what do you want?" he

entrance exam in that warrior school in Warrior's Paradise," Alex

surprised, but

old are you?" he

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

15!" the man shouted. "You

taken aback by the

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

man didn't answer and

cloak off

was absolutely disgusting,

like that since they could find better clothing that had been thrown

man looked with disgust and pity at

would normally wear quite good armor and good clothing. After all,

bandit would wear

that Alex's body really looked like

was simply because they hadn't fully gone through

but with enough life experience, one would immediately see that Alex was a teenager, not

was just

was removed, the man also saw

Alex's sword looked weird.

too straight and uniform. Swords

for the tip where the sword suddenly narrowed down into

man could tell that

a

someone that had lived

wild for so long?"

sigh of relief when the man calmed down. "To

Silence.

quite some determination," he said. "Can I

out his

and the man looked at Alex with

walked forward

far heavier than he had thought, and he had to put

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

at the

you throw your weapon over to me?" the

that I don't have any bad intentions,"

his brows as he felt the

had easily thrown it over

had been like the

you need this sword if you had

Alex said with a

is this display of

and rubbed the

of my strength. If I wanted to do anything

annoyed