Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex slowly stepped out of the forest, dragging a severed head behind him.

The Frozen Lake Stag's antlers had lost all their color by now.

Obviously, Alex's masochistic and power-hungry side couldn't let go of so much Mana.

Alex slowly stepped towards the village, a couple hundred meters away. Right now, Alex could finally see the villagers doing their business. They were tending to some farms while others cooked on the streets for the entire village.

Alex watched the village from a distance.

'Everyone is working together. Some people are tending to the crops. Some are cooking for everyone. Some are out gathering Ice Wood.'

'I've never seen anything like that on Earth. Sure, I've seen scenes like that in documentaries and movies, but not in real life.'

Alex silently watched the village.

'It has a kind of purity and innocence to it.'

After a bit, a boy noticed Alex. After looking at Alex with wide eyes, he walked up to a grown woman and pointed at Alex while pulling on her skirt.

The woman looked at Alex, and her eyes widened.

'Great,' Alex thought. 'Guess the villagers will all leave again.'

However, surprisingly, the villagers didn't retreat. Instead, they all called each other and pointed towards Alex, or, more accurately, towards the head of the Frozen Lake Stag.

Alex could see some shock and surprise in their eyes.

'Well, at least they're not scared anymore,' Alex thought. 'Might as well give them a display.'

Alex lifted the head and held it above himself.

The villagers continued to look at Alex while talking in hushed voices.

After a couple of seconds, Alex felt a bit awkward and lowered the head.

'Weren't they supposed to break out into a cheer or something?' Alex thought awkwardly.

Alex released a sigh.

'Well, real life doesn't work like that, I guess. They're probably all just happy and surprised. Who would expect a huge group of adults to loudly break out into a cheer?'

Alex continued walking towards the village, and the villagers didn't retreat.

When Alex came close to them, some of them walked up to him.

"Well done, young man!" one of the men said with a bright smile. "That beast has been a problem for a long time!"

"Yes, thank you for taking care of it," another man said with a respectful nod.

their thanks, and Alex nodded

Alex answered. "Where's

here," the Elder said as he pushed himself through the gathered

seen, the Frozen Lake Stag has

the Frozen Lake Stag wouldn't be a problem for you. After all, you already took down a High-Grade Ice Spear Bear. The Ice Spear Bear has an equally powerful ranged attack, but

a bit worried for you. I hadn't expected you

came up that I had to deal with," Alex explained. "However, the fight definitely wasn't easy. The Frozen

eyes widened

at the head in Alex's hand and

why is there no white glow coming from its antlers?"

care of," Alex said. "My body

eyes widened in

quickly looked at the other villagers

Elder out of instinct when he touched Alex, but Alex managed to restrain

Alex into his

he released

take advantage of someone's affinity. If an enemy knows about your affinity, they can use various gadgets to influence

the scene of the Frozen Lake Stag getting impaled by its

lot

absorb all the

be able to quickly recover from any injury, but what if

force him to

had filled Alex with

wouldn't injure Alex, which would force

opportunity to finish Alex. After all, Alex could recover from heavy injuries in such a state, but it

couldn't evade

of bandits threw some kind of bomb filled with Ice

explode or need to hurt himself

a perfect

narrowed his eyes as he realized all of

come up with all of these scenarios in an instant, but Alex had gathered enough battle experience to come up with these

experience with battle was vastly superior

Elder," Alex said with a

It was good that the young man realized the weight of his

seen too many young geniuses die to their

surplus of Mana? A Mana Overload is usually a death sentence,"

at the

killed myself several

eyes widened in

while, the Elder

Elder released a

words, the Elder's eyes had

Alex as a talented, friendly youngster. Alex was very talented in the Elder's mind, and the Elder knew that Alex would

now, the Elder realized how naïve he had

Why naïve?

a genius become

didn't only mean having a