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

the Dean said. "The previous students that agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than you

ahead," Shang said with

knife away and took out his

Shang didn't see it.

on the highest part

be quick but very painful," the Dean

deep breath and gritted

Then, his head nodded.

spear began

CRRRRRRK!

neck, and it completely severed all the nerves

was like every single nerve in Shang's entire body had

nerves in his body sent the most

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

to just directly

their neck broken, they very

became overloaded with

them down until he could feel their splinters

were strained wide

worse, Shang

without air. Don't panic," the Dean said evenly. "The procedure will be done by

only barely registered the Dean's

awake. That's good. No one has managed to come this far before. You won't feel

to wait

the Dean's voice,

to

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

second that passes is one

think to myself is another

only 600 seconds! Every six seconds is already one percent

trick to keep himself

only had

Only wait!

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

It sounded slimy.

like someone was putting their ear to a tube of

disgusting, but with the context, Shang wanted

even hurl right

sound of his viscous bone marrow being

through his

almost worse than

marrow removed," the Dean said after

the thing on the table vanish from within his range of vision as

heard several squelching and cracking

seconds later, the

Your body is healing too quickly, and it's difficult for me to

lost his concentration, and his Mana was rushing

continued grinding his teeth as he strained his mind to

like that,"