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

good," the Dean said. "The previous students that agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than you up to now. The next two steps will be the most important and

Shang said with a strained

Dean put the knife away and took out his

Shang didn't see it.

the Dean put his spear on the highest part of Shang's

but very painful," the Dean

took a deep breath

Then, his head nodded.

spear began to

CRRRRRRK!

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

exact moment, it was like every single nerve in Shang's entire body had been

in his body sent the most painful signals of

breathing as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't

feeling of

coming from his entire body, even though all his nerves

to

got their neck broken, they

just became overloaded with everything

teeth and ground them down until he could feel their

were strained wide

worse, Shang couldn't breathe

can survive over ten minutes without air. Don't panic," the Dean said evenly. "The

registered

awake. That's good. No one has managed to come this far before. You won't feel what I'm doing back here with your nerves cut," the

to wait

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

have to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

second that passes is one second less I have

I think to myself is another

Every six seconds is

tried every trick to keep himself alive

only had to

Only wait!

himself alive, he heard the most disgusting

It sounded slimy.

putting their ear to a tube of toothpaste being squeezed

wasn't disgusting, but with the context, Shang wanted

he couldn't even hurl right

his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of

through his entire body, and his vision swam even

almost

the Dean said after the sound

within his

several squelching and cracking

later, the sounds

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

lost his concentration, and his Mana was rushing

strained his mind to

Keep it like that," Soran