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 voice

way worse than you up to now. The next

said with

away and took

Shang didn't see it.

the Dean put his spear on the highest

be quick but very painful,"

breath

Then, his head nodded.

the Dean's spear began to

CRRRRRRK!

neck, and

it was like every single nerve in Shang's entire

the nerves in his body sent the most painful signals of pain

breathing as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this

feeling of inescapable

from his entire body, even though all his nerves had been

were to just

got their neck broken, they very

became overloaded

and ground them down until he could feel their splinters with his

eyes were strained wide

Shang couldn't

minutes without air. Don't panic," the Dean said

barely registered the Dean's

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

just have to wait

the Dean's voice, but he had understood the

to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

passes is one second less I have

I think to myself is another second that

is already one percent

trick to keep

only had to

Only wait!

he heard the most disgusting sound he had ever heard in

It sounded slimy.

ear to

disgusting, but with

couldn't even

was the sound of his viscous bone marrow being

vibrations of the sound going through his

was almost worse

removed," the Dean

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

several squelching and cracking

seconds later, the sounds

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

his concentration, and his

teeth as he strained his mind to focus

like that," Soran