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 voice

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 most painful

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

will be quick but

a deep breath and

Then, his head nodded.

then, the Dean's spear began to rotate like a

CRRRRRRK!

the spear had drilled a hole into Shang's neck,

was like every single nerve in Shang's entire

sent the most painful signals of

stopped breathing as his

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

was like this wasn't

feeling of

but pain coming from his entire body, even though all

were to

someone got their neck broken, they very often died

brain just became overloaded with everything and

ground them down until

eyes were strained wide

Shang couldn't

air. Don't panic," the Dean said evenly. "The procedure will

registered

come this far before. You won't feel what I'm doing back here with your nerves

have to wait

Dean's voice, but he had understood

have to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

passes is one second less

I think to myself is another second

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

to keep

only had

Only wait!

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

It sounded slimy.

someone was putting their ear to

without context wasn't disgusting, but with the context, Shang wanted

couldn't even

viscous bone marrow being

sound going through his

was almost

the Dean said after the

on the table vanish from within his range

heard several squelching

seconds later,

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

his Mana was rushing towards

as he strained his mind to focus on

it like that,"