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 his

done way worse than you up to now. The next two steps will be the most important and

Shang said with

the knife away and

Shang didn't see it.

the Dean put his spear on the highest part of

will be quick but very

took a deep breath

Then, his head nodded.

spear began to rotate like

CRRRRRRK!

just a single second, the spear had drilled a hole into Shang's neck,

that exact moment, it was like every single

the nerves in his body sent the most

stopped breathing as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

was like this wasn't even pain

was a feeling of

pain coming from his entire body, even though all his nerves had

were to just

neck broken, they very often

brain just became overloaded with everything and

and ground them down until he could feel

were strained wide

Shang couldn't breathe

Don't panic," the Dean said evenly. "The procedure

barely registered

awake. That's good. No one has managed to come this far before. You

to wait

the Dean's voice, but he

to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

that passes is one second

think to myself is another second

six seconds is

tried every trick to keep himself

only had to

Only wait!

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

It sounded slimy.

sounded like someone was putting their ear to a tube of toothpaste being

wasn't disgusting, but with

couldn't even hurl right

the sound of his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of

through

sound was almost worse than

the Dean

the table vanish from within his range of vision as the Dean took

heard several squelching and cracking

seconds later, the

your left arm! Your body is healing too quickly, and it's difficult for me to keep up!" Soran said with a strict

his concentration, and his Mana was

his teeth as he strained his mind to focus on his left

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