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

agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse

Shang said with a

Dean put the knife away and took out

Shang didn't see it.

the Dean put his spear on

be quick but

a deep breath and gritted his

Then, his head nodded.

Dean's spear began to

CRRRRRRK!

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

every single nerve in Shang's entire body had been

the nerves in his body sent the most painful signals of pain

breathing as his

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

this

was a feeling

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

were to just directly

got their neck broken, they

overloaded with

until he

were strained

worse, Shang couldn't

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

barely registered the

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

to

had difficulties hearing the Dean's voice, but he

to wait

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

passes is one second less

I think to myself

seconds! Every six seconds is already one percent of the

every trick to keep

had to

Only wait!

keep himself alive, he heard the most disgusting sound

It sounded slimy.

ear to a

sound without context wasn't disgusting, but with the context, Shang

he couldn't even

viscous bone

sound going through his entire body, and his vision swam even

sound was almost worse than the

removed," the Dean

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

several squelching

later, the

concentrate on your left arm! Your body is healing too quickly, and it's difficult for me to keep up!"

lost his concentration, and his Mana was rushing

teeth as he strained his mind to focus on his

Keep it like that," Soran