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

the pedestal, but he

about the pedestal itself," the Dean

Shang asked as his eyes widened.

ore is virtually useless. It's very brittle, and

is worthless. The only interesting aspect

King kept it due to its rarity, and he used it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial. It wasn't a prize

Apparently, it counts as

in front of Shang, and Shang looked

was a

guessed that this was about 100

is all yours,"

he was interrupted by

it like that?" Shang asked. "I don't

"Don't know," Sword answered.

looked at it with a

rapidly absorbed about

jumped into Shang's

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

of about 50 units of ore, and it had absorbed

quickly made the connection in his

is the attack?" Shang

it yourself, but still quite

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

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

use it?" Shang

"I can use it whenever. But you also need to tell me

Shang nodded.

"You want me to use the attack

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. It's better to have the weapons forge themselves than

powerful the attack is," the Dean said

looked at his teacher. "You want me

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

didn't feel good about this, and

Shang's expression and lifted an eyebrow in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the

transformed into an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry. I think I forgot

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

needed a new

wanted to return Sword to its initial appearance,

his idea, they both decided that they wanted to make Sword a bit bigger,

later, Shang readied his sword again. "I will