Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang took a deep breath and walked over to the table.

Then, he pulled down the upper part of his uniform and lay down on the icy table.

From the table, Shang saw the Dean walk over to the thing lying in the room. Shang wasn't entirely sure how the thing had suddenly lost consciousness again, but this had probably been Duke Whirlwind's work.

The Dean put the thing onto the table beside Shang. The table was easily big enough.

"Keep it unconscious," the Dean said.

"No worries," Duke Whirlwind answered from the side.

From now on, Shang couldn't see the Dean anymore since he was lying face-down on the table.

"I will create the cut now. Are you prepared, Shang?" the Dean asked.

"Go ahead," Shang said.

Meanwhile, Shang took a deep breath and mentally prepared himself.

Shang didn't see it, but the Dean took out a shining black knife, which seemed to be made of something like obsidian.

Then, the Dean put the tip of the blade on Shang's neck.

Shang felt the coldness of the blade, and his heart began to beat faster.

And then, the blade went into Shang's body.

The cut was slow and deliberate, careful not to injure the bone.

Shang felt the searing pain of a cut slowly opening above his spine.

Luckily, he could deal with something like that. It wasn't even as bad as his destroyed left arm.

On the side, Mattheo cringed in pain.

He had no idea how Shang could take something like that.

After some seconds, the Dean pulled the knife away.

There was now a cut going all the way from Shang's neck to his behind.

The Dean put his hands into the open wound and pulled it to the side.

Not many people had the luxury of seeing a human essentially being skinned. The skin and the muscles offered a lot of resistance, but the Dean's power was far beyond their ability to resist.

Shang took a deep breath through his gritted teeth.

This was way worse than the cut!

His flesh was being pulled from his very bones!

"Soran," the Dean said.

Shang heard a couple of steps and then felt a slight burning feeling coming from his back.

"Soran is using his Wind Mana to stop your flesh and skin from regenerating," the Dean emotionlessly said. "Anything that regrows will be cut away."

"How is the pain?" the Dean asked.

but

agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than you up

said with a strained

put the knife away and took out

Shang didn't see it.

spear on the

will be quick but very painful," the Dean

deep breath and

Then, his head nodded.

began

CRRRRRRK!

had drilled a hole into Shang's neck, and

every single nerve in

nerves in his body sent the

stopped breathing as his

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't even pain

a feeling

but pain coming from his entire body, even

instincts were to just directly

their neck broken, they very often died

just became overloaded with everything and shut

ground them down until he could feel their splinters with his

were

Shang couldn't

the Dean said

only barely registered the Dean's

That's good. No one has managed to come this far before. You won't feel what I'm doing back here with

to wait

hearing the Dean's voice, but he

just have to wait and

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

is one second less I have

second I think to myself is another

Every six seconds is already one percent of the time I

trick to keep himself

had

Only wait!

tried to keep himself alive, he heard the most disgusting sound he had ever heard

It sounded slimy.

was putting their ear

sound without context wasn't disgusting, but with the context, Shang wanted

he couldn't even hurl

his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out

sound going through his entire

sound was almost

marrow removed," the Dean said

the thing on the table vanish from within his range of

squelching and

seconds later,

on your left arm! Your body is healing too quickly, and it's

and his Mana

as he strained

like that,"