Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex left through the southern entrance and saw the southern area behind the Central Wild.

It didn't look much different from the other parts of this Zone, except for maybe it being a bit flatter. There were still some hills here and there, but it wasn't as exaggerated as the northern part of the town.

As Alex went past the southern entrance, he put the wheels of the sled wagon away again and transformed it back into a sled.

Then, Alex took a deep breath and continued pulling.

It was currently afternoon, and Alex still had enough daylight to travel.

Not much of note happened as Alex continued traveling to the southeast. It was just incredibly boring and tiresome.

Alex saw some big birds flying over the street occasionally, and Alex always stopped to look at them. He didn't want to be caught by surprise by some powerful bird swooping down from the sky.

These birds looked rather powerful, and Alex didn't trust that they didn't eat humans.

Alex even saw some of the bigger birds flying circles above him, but they all left after circling him for two times or so. He wasn't sure if they were evaluating his power or if they were just curious.

After a couple of hours, dusk arrived. Alex had probably traveled for around 25 to 30 kilometers in these couple of hours, which was way too slow for his liking. Sadly, the sled wagon was simply too heavy.

'Being a trader sucks,' Alex thought. 'The merchants that passed me in the last couple of hours all used horses and bulls to pull their cargo. Wonder how expensive these animals are in this world. I didn't see many of them in the town.'

Several traders had passed Alex during the last couple of hours. They were all driving way faster than him, and they all passed Alex easily. Most of them were driving carriages with trailers behind them, but that wasn't all.

The merchants also had bodyguards running alongside their small caravan. These bodyguards all threw Alex some confused looks, which was understandable. After all, Alex was pulling the sled wagon himself, and he was traveling alone.

several greetings from the guards, and the merchants even told him their names and their specialties. They had seen the sled wagon Alex was pulling, and they knew that he would earn big money with all that Ice Wood. To the

all of that had

hour ago, no more merchants passed Alex, which gave him some insight into the

half an hour of daylight left, and everyone stopped passing me about an hour ago. That means that their carriages can't travel the remaining distance in one and a

around ten kph, which means that I probably have around five to six hours of travel left. Sure enough, in total, it should be about a day's worth of travel.

for the night. I don't know what kind of creatures are living here since all the merchants are avoiding traveling through the

the road, into the forest. It wasn't easy to find a gap big enough for the sled wagon to pass through, but after a bit of searching, Alex

left the sled

stretching, Alex took out his sword and began training. He never skipped a day

with incredible speed, and whenever he unleashed a strike, one could basically only see an afterimage due to the strike's speed. Alex's

style, and he tried

an hour of swinging his sword, Alex was drenched in sweat,

one of its thick branches. The trees around Alex were still mostly conifers, but he had long since gotten used to sitting on branches

no idea what kinds of creatures or beasts lived here, and if he had to fight one, he would rather have the initiative. If he

staying on a tree, all the curious eyes would be drawn to the carriage first, allowing Alex to gather information on

closed his eyes and started meditating. Meditation worked somewhat as a replacement for sleeping, but he still needed to sleep

already fully recovered in just a couple of minutes,

increase Alex's power, but it wasn't useless. Alex was pretty good at controlling Mana

also had some Mana stored

higher control over Mana, he had noticed that the stored Mana was being used up during his training. That's when Alex had realized that the stored Mana worked similarly to the sugar stored

that's how it had been on Earth. When the glucose was used up, the body burned fat, but the burning of fat was way more complicated, and the

reach the same explosive power as by burning

how did Mana

Mana worked like an upgraded version of sugar. By moving around, Alex's body was using up Mana. Of course, Alex's body also had a passive regeneration of Mana, which was strong enough to get him through