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 sounded

done way worse than you

said with

put the knife away and took out his

Shang didn't see it.

the Dean put his spear on

quick but very painful,"

a deep breath and

Then, his head nodded.

Dean's spear began

CRRRRRRK!

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

was like every single nerve

sent the most painful signals

breathing as his

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this

feeling of inescapable

pain coming from his entire body, even though all his

instincts were to just

broken,

overloaded with everything and shut

gritted his teeth and ground them down until he could feel their

were strained

worse, Shang couldn't breathe

panic," the Dean said evenly. "The procedure will be

barely registered the Dean's

No one has managed to come this far before. You won't feel what I'm doing back here with your

just have to wait and

Dean's voice, but he

have to

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

one second less

I think to myself is another

are only 600 seconds! Every six seconds is already one percent of the

to

only had to

Only wait!

alive, he heard the most disgusting sound he had ever heard in his

It sounded slimy.

someone was putting their ear to a tube of toothpaste being

but with the context, Shang wanted to

he couldn't even

his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of his

felt the vibrations of the sound going through his entire

almost worse

Dean said after the sound

the thing on the table vanish from within his range

heard several squelching

seconds later,

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

his Mana was rushing towards his

grinding his teeth as he strained

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