Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex hadn't expected a no for an answer.

"Then why did you ask about my coat?" he asked.

"To gauge your strength," the man said. "So, did you take out the Pest Cat yourself?"

Alex nodded. "I took out several. They are not my opponent."

This took the man by surprise.

He knew that Alex was strong since he was able to wield such a heavy sword in one hand, but he hadn't known how strong Alex was.

"They are not your opponents?" he asked. "What Stage are you?"

"Stage?" Alex asked, but then he remembered the Duke's words. "I should be in the Late First Realm."

"Late Soldier Stage?!" the man asked in shock. "And you're 15?!"

"Soldier Stage?" Alex asked in confusion. "I thought the First Realm was called Apprentice."

"That's for Mages only," the man said. "The First Realm for warriors is the Soldier Stage. That's because nearly all soldiers are in that Stage."

"Oh, okay," Alex said. "And yes, I'm at the Late Soldier Stage then."

The man looked far more surprised than Alex had assumed.

"Is that high?" he asked.

"Are you from a noble household?" the man asked in shock.

Alex snorted. "Do I look like I'm from a noble household?" he asked.

The man looked at Alex.

"So, is it strong?" Alex asked.

"Warriors in the Late Soldier Stage are generally considered elite warriors," the man answered. "They worked for years for their power."

"Elite soldiers?" Alex asked in surprise, "but the guards I met at that mountain were all more powerful than me."

"You can't compare normal soldiers to the soldiers working directly under the Duke," the man said. "The men under the Duke are all in the General Stage. That's the equivalent to the Adept Realm for Mages."

"Oh," Alex commented. "By the way, how do you know all these things?"

"When I was young, I worked as a smith in Warrior's Paradise," the man said.

'Knew it!' Alex thought. The guy just looked far too much like a smith.

"Back to the topic," the man said. "You said that Pest Cats are not your opponents, right?"

Alex nodded.

"Could you elaborate on your power? How would the fight go down?"

Alex said. "As long as they don't jump me from several different angles, I can take out a group of them

truly transformed in the last six

just arrived, one Pest Cat had already nearly spelled his doom. If he hadn't been lucky, the Pest Cat

had been able to fight

Alex found it easy to

and the subsequent strengthening with the fruits, the Pest

fact, Alex could break a Pest Cat's neck with a

far stronger than a Pest

the man heard of Alex's power, he

quickly

that powerful, we might have a lucrative job

Alex heard that, he immediately

job? What

man turned around and gestured towards the middle

should speak with

with a smile as

walked through the village, he could see curious eyes glancing at him through the

were still wary of

bad experiences

was as courageous as the old

two of them

from any other house in the

house, it was

I

Pest?' Alex repeated in his

the door opened, and an old man

in his fifties or sixties, but

his body

the old man, he became a

was swirling around the old

Was he a Mage?

comparison, the old man felt like an old weed while Duke Whirlwind felt

Whirlwind had pulled in an incredible amount of Mana like a whirlpool, while this old

was

Mage?"

old smith was surprised by Alex's words, but the eyes of the old

he had

see that Alex was pulling in quite a bit of Mana, even more than the

confident?" the old

"No," Alex answered.

smith was surprised

old man only

said. "Come

I be confident in defeating an enemy I

outside while

quaint. It looked like a

man gestured to a chair, and

old man got some water from a bucket and warmed it over the fire, and while the water was warming, the old man sat