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.

Shang answered, but his

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

Shang said with a

knife away and took out his

Shang didn't see it.

his spear on the highest part of Shang's

be quick but

breath and gritted

Then, his head nodded.

spear began to rotate

CRRRRRRK!

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

was like every single

his body sent the most painful signals of pain they could

breathing as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't even

a feeling of inescapable

his entire body, even though all his

instincts were to

got their neck broken, they

brain just became overloaded with

gritted his teeth and ground them down until he could

eyes were strained wide

Shang couldn't

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

barely registered

one has managed to come this far before. You won't feel

just have to wait and

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

have to

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

that passes is one second

think to myself is

are only 600 seconds! Every six seconds is already

tried every trick to keep himself

had to

Only wait!

alive, he heard the most disgusting sound he had

It sounded slimy.

sounded like someone was putting their ear to a tube

wasn't disgusting, but with the

he couldn't even

viscous bone

through his entire body, and his vision

sound was almost

Dean said

the table vanish from within his range of

heard several squelching and

seconds later, the

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

and his Mana was rushing towards

his teeth as he strained his mind to

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