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

that agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than you up to now. The next two steps will be the most important

Shang said

away and took

Shang didn't see it.

put his spear on the

be quick but very painful,"

deep breath and gritted

Then, his head nodded.

then, the Dean's spear began

CRRRRRRK!

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

single nerve in Shang's entire body had been

body sent the most painful signals of pain they could

stopped breathing as his

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't even

a feeling

pain coming from his entire body,

to just directly

their neck broken, they very often died

overloaded with

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

eyes were

worse, Shang couldn't breathe

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

only barely registered the Dean's

managed to come this far before. You won't feel what I'm doing back here with your nerves cut," the

have to

voice, but he had understood

to wait and

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

second that passes is one second less I have to

I think to myself is another second that

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

tried every trick to keep himself

had to

Only wait!

heard the most disgusting sound he had ever

It sounded slimy.

ear to a tube of

context wasn't disgusting, but with the context, Shang wanted to

even

of his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of

of the sound going through his entire body, and his

almost worse than

removed," the Dean said after

thing on the table vanish from within his range of vision as

squelching

seconds later, the

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

and his Mana was

continued grinding his teeth as he strained his

it like that,"