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.

answered, but his voice

previous students that agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than

ahead," Shang said with a

Dean put the knife away and took out his

Shang didn't see it.

put his spear on the highest part of

will be quick but

breath and gritted

Then, his head nodded.

the Dean's spear began to rotate

CRRRRRRK!

spear had drilled a hole into Shang's neck, and it completely severed

it was like every single nerve

body sent the most painful signals of pain

as

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't even

a feeling of inescapable

entire body, even though all his

to just directly

got their neck broken,

just became overloaded with everything and

ground them down until he could feel their splinters

were strained

Shang

panic," the Dean

barely registered

No one has managed to come this far before. You won't

to wait and

difficulties hearing the Dean's voice, but he had understood the

just have to wait and

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

second that passes is one second

to myself is another second that

minutes are only 600 seconds! Every six seconds is already

every trick to keep himself

only had

Only wait!

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

It sounded slimy.

their ear to a tube

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

even hurl right

of his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of his

felt the vibrations of the sound going through his entire body, and his vision

sound was almost worse than the

the Dean said after the

from within his

squelching and cracking

seconds later, the

too quickly, and it's difficult for me to keep up!" Soran

concentration, and his

he strained his mind to focus

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