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.

answered, but his voice

students that agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than you up to now. The next two

Shang said with a

knife away and took

Shang didn't see it.

on

but

a deep breath and gritted his

Then, his head nodded.

the Dean's spear began to rotate like a

CRRRRRRK!

a hole into Shang's neck, and it completely

moment, it was like every single nerve

the

as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

like this wasn't even pain

was a feeling

pain coming from his entire

to just

their neck broken, they very

overloaded with

and ground them down until he could feel their splinters with

were strained wide

Shang

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

barely registered the

still awake. That's good. No one has managed to come this far before. You won't feel what I'm doing back here with

to

Dean's voice, but he had

to

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

second that passes is one second less I have

second I think to myself is another

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

to

only had to

Only wait!

to keep himself alive, he heard the most disgusting sound

It sounded slimy.

someone was putting their ear to a tube

but with the context, Shang wanted

even

the sound of his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out

felt the vibrations of the sound going through his

was almost

Dean said after the

table vanish from within his range of

squelching and

later, the sounds

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

and his Mana

continued grinding his teeth as he strained his mind to focus on his

like that," Soran