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.

is the

at the pedestal, but he couldn't

the pedestal itself," the

as his eyes

nodded. "This ore is virtually useless. It's very brittle,

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

rarity, and he used it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial. It wasn't

it. Apparently, it counts as

front of

a lot

that this was about 100

all yours,"

looked at it for a while, but he was interrupted by Sword jumping

like that?" Shang asked. "I don't want you to

"Don't know," Sword answered.

at it with a raised

absorbed about half of the pedestal before it

jumped into

to transform the

about 50 units of ore, and it had

quickly made the connection in his

is the attack?" Shang

powerful as when you use it yourself, but still quite powerful," Sword

you heavier and harder than me?" Shang asked. "Shouldn't your

I'm pretty sure it isn't,"

I use it?" Shang

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

Shang nodded.

at the Dean. "You want me to use the attack to change Sword's appearance?" he

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. It's

I want to test how powerful the attack

want me to use

as he stopped on the other side of the room. "If I

this, and he

noticed Shang's expression and lifted an eyebrow in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most powerful warrior in the world while

transformed into an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry. I think

Shang and Sword talked about what they wanted Sword to look like in the future.

needed a

they wanted to return Sword to its initial appearance, but then

his idea, they both decided that they wanted to make Sword a bit bigger, but not as big as its current

his