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.

passed Alex, he heard 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

of that had stopped about an

hour ago, no more merchants passed Alex, which gave him some insight into the remaining distance to the southern

about an hour ago. That means that their carriages

be about 50 to 60 kilometers left. I'm moving at 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.

think it's time to pause for the night. I don't know what kind of creatures are living here since all the merchants are avoiding traveling through

sled wagon to the side of the road, into the forest. It wasn't easy to find a gap big enough for the

left the sled

Alex took out his sword and began training. He never

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

and he tried his best to get rid

about an hour of swinging his sword, Alex

its thick branches. The trees around Alex were still mostly conifers,

wanted to be careful. He had 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 stayed the night on the carriage, basically everything in the surroundings would

the curious eyes would be drawn to the carriage first, allowing Alex

his eyes and started meditating. Meditation worked somewhat as a replacement for sleeping, but he still needed to sleep for about six hours every two days. Of course, Alex wasn't stupid enough to sleep

to his meditation. All his muscles had already fully recovered in just a couple of

useless. Alex was pretty good at controlling Mana by now,

train his body, but Alex had noticed that he also

used up during his training. That's when Alex had realized that the stored Mana worked similarly to the

energy, which mainly came from the stored glucose in one's liver. At least, that's how it had been on Earth. When the glucose was used up, the body burned fat, but the burning of fat was

reach the same explosive power as by burning glucose. As a former

did

Mana. Of course, Alex's body also had a passive regeneration of