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

"The previous students that agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than you up to now.

ahead," Shang said with a

the knife away

Shang didn't see it.

Dean put his spear on the highest part

but very

breath and

Then, his head nodded.

the Dean's spear began

CRRRRRRK!

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

single nerve in Shang's entire body had

the nerves in his body sent the most painful signals

breathing as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't even

feeling

nothing but pain coming from his entire body, even though all his nerves had been

instincts were to just

neck broken, they very often died

overloaded with everything and

his teeth and ground them down until he could feel their splinters with

were strained wide

Shang couldn't

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

only barely registered

one has managed to come this far before. You won't feel what I'm doing

have to wait and

hearing the Dean's voice, but he had understood

just have to

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

second that passes is one second less

myself is another second

seconds is already one percent of the

tried every trick to keep

had

Only wait!

he heard the most disgusting sound he had ever heard in

It sounded slimy.

their ear

but with the

even hurl

of his viscous bone marrow being

sound going through his entire

sound was almost worse than

Dean said after the

saw the thing on the table vanish from within his

squelching and

seconds later,

and it's difficult for me

and his Mana was rushing towards

continued grinding his teeth as he strained his

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