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.

Shang answered, but his voice

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

Shang said with a strained

Dean put the knife away and took

Shang didn't see it.

the Dean put his spear on the

but very painful," the

took a deep breath and gritted

Then, his head nodded.

began to rotate like

CRRRRRRK!

the spear had drilled a hole into Shang's neck, and it completely severed all the nerves going from Shang's

moment, it was like every single nerve in

body sent the most painful signals of

stopped breathing as

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't

was a feeling of inescapable

pain coming from his entire body, even though all

to just directly

got their neck broken, they very often

overloaded with everything and shut

gritted his teeth and ground them down until

eyes were

worse, Shang couldn't

the Dean

registered the Dean's

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

have to wait

Dean's voice, but he had

just have to wait and

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

that passes is one second less I have

second I think to myself is another second that

seconds is already one percent of the time I have

tried every trick to

only had to

Only wait!

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

It sounded slimy.

their ear to a tube of toothpaste

without context wasn't disgusting, but with

couldn't even hurl

was the sound of his viscous bone

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

almost worse than the

Dean said

table vanish from within

squelching

seconds later,

left arm! Your body is healing too quickly, and

lost his concentration, and his Mana

he strained his mind to focus on his left

like that," Soran