Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex started the next day by continuing to pull his sled wagon along the road.

As always, it was very exhausting and boring.

About two hours later, Alex saw the first merchants pass him again on their fancy carriages. The merchants introduced themselves, and the guards following the carriages also shot a short greeting to Alex.

Luckily, no major event took place for the next couple of hours, and Alex safely arrived in the Southern Wild.

As Alex saw the gates of the town, he rubbed the sweat off his forehead.

However, Alex quickly stopped as he noticed his own action.

'Sweat?' Alex thought as he looked at his left sleeve. 'It's been a while since I actually sweated from exertion. The surroundings are always cold enough that I didn't need to sweat.'

Alex pulled his right hand out of his cloak and felt the surroundings.

'It's getting warmer,' Alex thought. 'Even more, it almost feels too hot under my coat.'

'Seems like I'm close to leaving the Ice Wyvern Zone.'

Alex continued pulling the sled wagon towards the Southern Wild. The town didn't really look special. It was like a town after it had gotten warmer after a heavy snowfall.

In short, it looked muddy and dirty.

When Alex came to the northern gate, the guards stopped him and looked through his stack of Ice Wood for anything illegal. Their investigation was pretty thorough, taking nearly five minutes.

"Why do you want to enter the Southern Wild?" the guard captain asked with practiced ease.

in Warrior's Paradise for my entrance exam," Alex answered. He had noticed that several people knew about the Warrior Academy and its entrance exams, which was why

captain looked with surprise at Alex's face and squinted his

at first glance," the guard captain

a question,"

the guard

Alex asked. "I've spent the last night in the wilds

captain uttered as Alex got his attention. "What did you

Stage kind. It was azure and had eight icicles

"You saw an

the

had to be an Icy Grave Widow. We've been searching for the cause of the nightly disappearances for a while now, but no one saw anything. They either come back without having encountered anything too dangerous or don't return at

pest a couple of months ago, but apparently, we missed some of the young," the guard captain added. "Thanks for the intel. You've been a

"No problem," Alex said.

Grave Widow? You seem pretty strong, and we could need someone like you," the guard captain said. "Of

immediately shook his head. "Sorry, I'm not suicidal. If that

captain added. "We generally send several warriors in the General Realm to deal with Icy Grave Widows. It's not about if we get

very comfortable around other humans.

of silence, the guard captain only sighed. "Fine, it's your decision after all. Anyway, as a reward for telling us about the Icy Grave Widow, I'll

"Thanks," Alex said.

two days to reach the next town. The

Elemental Mana is weak in the atmosphere, and beasts don't like that. You will, at most, see some early or middle Soldier Stage beasts, and those shouldn't be

Alex nodded.

place a haven for bandits. There's a known bandit camp located somewhere between here and Blizzard's Edge, but we haven't been able to

should be a Late Soldier Stage Warrior, but he only very rarely robs people himself. He has lackeys for that. The most

while the