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.

but

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

said with a

away

Shang didn't see it.

on the highest part

will be quick but

took a deep breath and gritted

Then, his head nodded.

then, the Dean's spear began to rotate

CRRRRRRK!

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

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

in his body sent the most painful signals of

breathing as

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

this wasn't even

a feeling

but pain coming from his entire body, even though

were to

got their neck broken, they

overloaded

his teeth and ground them down until he could feel their

eyes were strained wide

Shang

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

registered the

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 Dean

to

the Dean's voice, but

to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

one

think to myself is another second

are only 600 seconds! Every six seconds is

trick to

only had to

Only wait!

heard the most disgusting sound he had ever heard in

It sounded slimy.

like someone was putting their ear to a tube of

disgusting, but with the

even

was the sound of his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of

felt the vibrations of the sound going through his entire body, and his vision swam

sound was almost worse

the Dean said after the sound

the table vanish from within his range of vision as the Dean

heard several squelching

seconds later, the

left arm! Your body is healing too quickly, and it's

his Mana was

his teeth as he strained his mind to focus on

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