Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex sat on the tree while a campfire was burning below him. Several skewers filled with meat were hanging near the fire, and Alex was eating one of those skewers right now. From time to time, Alex jumped down, retrieved another skewer, and went back to the tree. He still wasn't sure what kind of creatures lived in this area, so he tried to remain hidden.

Anything that came here would have its attention drawn to the fire and sled wagon, leaving Alex the initiative.

After eating quite a bit of meat, Alex pulled the remaining skewers from the fire, put some of his spare clothes around them, and put them on the sled wagon. He would eat them tomorrow while traveling.

A couple of hours passed, and it was now well into the night.

That's when Alex felt something approach.

Alex didn't hear or see the approaching creature, but he felt a lot of Ice Mana moving towards him.

Alex slowly stood up from the branch and silently moved to the next tree.

A feeling of nervousness appeared in Alex, but he forced himself to remain calm. 'Judging by the amount of Ice Mana being displaced, this is probably a creature of the Second Realm, and it's definitely not in the earlier stages.'

'I can't fight that.'

After moving two trees away from his makeshift camp, Alex closed his eyes to concentrate on feeling the Ice Mana in the atmosphere.

In Alex's mind, he saw a sizable, blue ball of Ice Mana moving towards his old camp. The blue ball of Mana was about two meters in diameter, which confused Alex a bit.

'It feels like the creature is about as long as it is wide. It's not as tall as it's wide or long, but it is still quite tall. I wonder what kind of creature that could be?'

Surprisingly, Alex heard absolutely nothing.

The forest was completely silent, which was a scary thought.

A creature of such a size should make some sort of noise. Sure, the Pest Cats were also silent creatures, but they had an Affinity for Darkness. Alex was pretty certain that the Darkness Affinity allowed the Pest Cats to remain silent.

Yet, the creature that had just entered Alex's camp obviously had an Ice Affinity.

'If I couldn't perceive Ice Mana, my survival would depend on luck. I would have remained on my branch, and I wouldn't even have noticed it. My survival would have completely hinged on it not seeing me on my branch.'

According to Alex's perception, the creature stopped before Alex's campfire, and then, Alex felt like it had gotten colder.

probably doesn't like

the creature going to his sled wagon. The sled wagon was made of Ice Wood, which had a lot of Ice Mana. Because

it doesn't consume

in front of it for a couple of seconds. After that, the ball symbolizing the creature went over the sled

that thing consumed all the Ice Mana in the Ice Wood,

It climbed over it, circled it, and stopped beside

but Alex had never heard any sound coming from

seconds later, the creature left the sled wagon without absorbing the

Alex felt it coming towards him. It wasn't moving very

eyes as he made a split-second

Whoom!

shot an Ice Blast to his front

Ice Mana shot towards

didn't hear any

silently climbed down the tree and

has an Ice Affinity, and it can probably also feel Ice Mana.

blue ball of Ice Mana was rapidly moving around the forest. It was moving up trees, going down trees, and running around trees. It had suddenly felt a

to not sprint towards his sled wagon. He had

creature climbed up the tree and moved all around it. If

crawled beneath it. Then, he remained motionless

Alex's

Alex decided to mask the Ice Mana in his arm with the Ice Mana of

Mana of the Ice Wood would outshine the little bit of Ice Mana on his left

trees in the surroundings, but it eventually went back to the

it simply stopped at the spot where Alex's campfire

his eyes from below the sled wagon, and he

wonder it

long, blue icicles were fusing with the snow on the ground. It was

tiny part of the icicles behind. If one didn't look for these parts, one wouldn't

him, and he saw the same azure

head a bit

enough, it's a blue