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.

That is the ore I need!" Sword

pedestal, but he couldn't

talking about the pedestal

as his

ore is virtually useless. It's very

worthless. The only interesting aspect is its

it as a pedestal for the

Apparently, it counts as being at the Initial

Dean put it in front of Shang,

a lot

this was

all yours," the Dean

a while, but he was interrupted by

that?" Shang

"Don't know," Sword answered.

looked at it with a

seconds, Sword rapidly absorbed about half of the pedestal before it

jumped into

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

up of about 50 units of ore, and it had absorbed 50 units of ore from the pedestal

quickly made the connection in his

powerful is the attack?" Shang

as powerful as when you use it yourself, but still

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

I'm pretty sure it isn't," Sword answered.

use it?"

when you want to use it," Sword answered. "I can use it whenever. But you

Shang nodded.

the Dean. "You want me to use the attack to change

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

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

want me to use

of the room. "If I feel any danger, I will

good about this, and he became a

you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most

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

and Sword talked about what they wanted Sword to look like in the future. The only reason why Sword

needed a

its initial appearance, but

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

his sword again.