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 his voice

previous students that agreed to undergo this procedure have done way worse than you

ahead," Shang said with a

Dean put the knife away

Shang didn't see it.

put his spear on

quick but very painful," the

took a deep breath and gritted

Then, his head nodded.

the Dean's spear began

CRRRRRRK!

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

single nerve in

the most painful

breathing as his vision

Was this even pain?

It felt so unfamiliar.

this

a feeling

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

instincts were to

someone got their neck broken,

brain just became overloaded

until he could feel their splinters with

eyes were strained

Shang

air. Don't panic," the Dean said

barely registered the Dean's

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

to wait

hearing the Dean's voice, but he had understood

just have to wait and

'Wait and survive!'

'Wait and survive!'

that passes is one second less I

myself is

six seconds is already one percent of

every trick to keep

had

Only wait!

to keep himself alive, he heard the

It sounded slimy.

was putting their ear to a tube

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

he couldn't even hurl right

of his viscous bone marrow being squeezed out of his

vibrations of the sound going through his entire

almost worse than

Dean said

within

heard several squelching and cracking

later,

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

had lost his concentration, and his Mana was

as he strained his mind to focus on

Keep it like that,"