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.

gave their thanks, and Alex nodded back with a

answered. "Where's

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

nodded at the Elder. "As you've seen, the Frozen Lake Stag has

head and nodded. "Good job. I knew that 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

for you. I hadn't expected you to be on the hunt for

deal with," Alex explained. "However, the fight definitely wasn't easy. The Frozen Lake Stag

Elder's eyes widened

the head

glow coming from

of,"

Elder's eyes widened

he quickly looked at the other villagers and pulled

when he touched

into his house and

released a

in a hushed tone. "There are ways to take advantage of someone's affinity. If an enemy knows about

blinked in surprise, but the scene of the Frozen Lake Stag getting impaled by its

lot of pure Ice

would absorb all the Ice Mana and fill his

be able to quickly recover from any injury, but

the additional Mana force him to injure himself

Lake Stag had filled Alex with Ice Mana while

Lake Stag wouldn't injure Alex,

the Frozen Lake Stag would have gotten a perfect opportunity to finish Alex. After

Alex couldn't evade something like those Ice

bandits threw some kind of

either explode or need to

give them a perfect opportunity to finish

as he realized

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

didn't know it yet, but his experience with battle was vastly superior to nearly every other warrior

telling me, Elder," Alex said with a

solemnly. It was good that the

Elder had seen too many young geniuses die to

how you dealt with the surplus of Mana? A Mana Overload is usually a death

looked at

nearly killed myself

Elder's eyes widened

a while, the

the Elder released a

Alex's words, the Elder's

very talented in the Elder's mind, and the Elder knew that Alex would

Elder realized how naïve

Why naïve?

a genius become a

only mean having a strong body,