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

done way worse than you up to now. The next two steps

ahead," Shang said with a strained

knife away

Shang didn't see it.

on the highest part of

be quick but very painful,"

breath and

Then, his head nodded.

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 entire body

his body sent the most painful signals of pain

stopped breathing as

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

this wasn't even pain

was a feeling

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

to just

someone got their neck broken, they very

became overloaded with

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

were strained

worse, Shang

panic," the Dean said evenly. "The procedure will be done

registered the Dean's

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

just have to

the Dean's voice,

have to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

second that passes is one

second I think to myself is another second that

Every six seconds is already one percent of the time

every trick to keep

only had to

Only wait!

alive, he heard the most disgusting sound he

It sounded slimy.

putting their ear to a tube of toothpaste being squeezed

disgusting, but with the context, Shang wanted to

even hurl right

sound of his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of his

felt the vibrations of the sound going through his

sound was almost worse than

removed," the Dean said after the sound

saw the thing on the table vanish from within

heard several squelching

seconds later, the sounds

body is healing too quickly, and it's difficult

and his Mana

teeth as he strained his mind to

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