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 voice sounded

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

ahead," Shang said with a

the knife away and took

Shang didn't see it.

his spear on the highest part

will be quick but very

a deep breath

Then, his head nodded.

began to rotate like

CRRRRRRK!

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

was like every single nerve

the most

breathing as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this

a feeling of inescapable

could feel nothing but pain coming from his entire body, even though all his

to just

broken, they very

just became overloaded with everything

them down until he could feel their splinters with his

were strained

Shang couldn't breathe

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

only barely registered the Dean's

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

to wait

difficulties hearing the Dean's voice, but he had

to wait and

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

one second

to myself is another second that

600 seconds! Every six seconds is already one percent of the time I have to

to keep himself alive

only had

Only wait!

himself alive, he heard the most

It sounded slimy.

their ear to a tube of toothpaste being squeezed

but

even hurl right

the sound of his viscous bone

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

was almost worse

marrow removed," the Dean

from within his range of vision

several squelching

later, the

left arm! Your body is healing too quickly, and

concentration, and his Mana

as he strained his mind to

like