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

procedure have done way worse than you up to now. The next

Shang said with

Dean put the knife away and took out his

Shang didn't see it.

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

be quick but very painful," the Dean

took a deep breath and

Then, his head nodded.

the Dean's spear began to

CRRRRRRK!

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

that exact moment, it was like every single nerve in Shang's

the nerves in his body sent the

breathing as his

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't

feeling of

from his entire

were to

someone got their neck broken,

became overloaded

and ground them down until he could feel their splinters with

were

worse, Shang couldn't

ten minutes without air. Don't panic," the Dean said evenly. "The procedure will be

only barely registered the

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

have to

voice, but

have to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

one second

second I think to myself is another second

seconds! Every six seconds is already one percent

to keep

had

Only wait!

to keep himself alive, he heard the most

It sounded slimy.

sounded like someone was putting their ear to a tube of toothpaste

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

he couldn't even

viscous bone marrow being

the sound going through his entire body, and his

was almost worse than the

marrow removed," the Dean

on the table vanish from within his range of

heard several squelching and

seconds later,

body is healing too quickly, and it's difficult

lost his concentration, and his Mana was rushing

his teeth as he strained his mind to focus on his left

it like that," Soran