Sword God in a World of Magic

The Dean and Shang talked for about two more hours, and the Dean also told Shang about his progress.

In the last two months, the Dean had managed to perform another successful procedure. This was now the third successful procedure the Dean had managed to perform.

Shang had been the first.

The second one had been performed about three months ago on someone with a warrior's body and good resistance to pain.

The newest one had been completed a couple of days ago, and it had been performed on someone with a weak resistance to pain but with a warrior's body.

"This means the procedure is now safe for everyone with a warrior's body?" Shang asked.

The Dean nodded. "Correct. Jerald managed to create a Spell that suppresses the Mana of someone with a warrior's body, which means that the patient doesn't need to be awake anymore during the procedure, making resistance to pain irrelevant."

"It isn't completely safe, but I don't have to follow the draconian restrictions regarding medicine from Earth in this world," the Dean said. "It's not a big issue if some patients die."

"The Spell can be performed by any True Mage, and the procedure can also be performed by Soran and Ranos. It's no longer necessary to have Jerald and me present during the procedure."

As Shang listened to the Dean, he realized that the day when every warrior could undergo the procedure was not far into the future.

The world was about to change.

"I will let Ranos and Soran perform one more procedure each to see if they can be trusted with it. And then…"

"We can go public."

Shang nodded. "Do you need me to do anything?"

"For now, you can return back to your school life. You don't need to hide anymore. Of course, you need to change your weapon first. Otherwise, people might connect you to your persona from the mission."

"For that, you can use this."

Then, something appeared in the Dean's hand.

It was a black pedestal, about one meter high.

And on the pedestal…

Was nothing.

Shang furrowed his brows. "There's nothing on it."

"That's it!" Sword said to Shang.

"What?" Shang asked.

ore! That is the

at the pedestal, but he couldn't see

about the pedestal itself,"

asked as his eyes widened. "That's the

"This ore is virtually useless. It's very brittle, and it can't absorb any Elemental or Neutral

intents and purposes, the ore is worthless. The only interesting

it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial. It wasn't a

it counts as being at the

front of Shang, and Shang

was a lot of

that this was about 100

is all yours," the Dean

for a while, but he

you absorb all of it like that?" Shang asked. "I don't want you to

"Don't know," Sword answered.

looked at it with

absorbed about half of the pedestal before it

jumped into Shang's

take," it explained. "My abilities didn't increase, but I managed to transform the composition of myself. I can now destroy parts of

and it had

the

is the attack?"

as when you use it

harder than me?" Shang

sure it isn't," Sword answered. "I don't know

can I use

Sword answered. "I can use it whenever. But you also need to tell me how much you want to use. If I use everything, I

Shang nodded.

"You want me to use

me of what you can do with your Affinity, and if your weapon follows the same principle, it should be able to change its shape by sacrificing part of itself.

the attack is," the

at his teacher. "You want me to

on the other side of the room. "If

this,

lifted an eyebrow in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most powerful warrior in the world while being at the

and his nervous expression transformed into an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry. I

like in

needed a new

return Sword to its initial appearance, but then Shang got an

both decided that they wanted to make Sword

minutes later, Shang readied his sword again. "I