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.

the ore I need!"

at the pedestal,

the pedestal itself," the

his eyes widened.

is virtually useless. It's very brittle,

ore is worthless. The only interesting

kept it due to its rarity, and he used it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial.

as being at the

front of

a lot of

guessed that this was

all yours," the Dean

but he was interrupted by Sword jumping onto

Shang asked. "I

"Don't know," Sword answered.

looked at it with a raised

the next seconds, Sword rapidly absorbed about half of the pedestal

jumped into Shang's

to transform the composition of myself. I can now destroy parts of

units of ore, and it had absorbed

the connection in his

the attack?"

use it yourself,

harder than me?" Shang asked. "Shouldn't your attack be

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

I use it?" Shang

But you also need to

Shang nodded.

me to use the attack

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 better to have the weapons forge themselves than to interfere

I want to test how powerful the attack is," the Dean

his teacher. "You want me to use it on

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

good about this, and he became

you actually afraid that you might

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

Shang and Sword talked about what they wanted Sword to look like in the future. The only reason why Sword had become so big

a

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

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

later, Shang readied his sword again. "I will