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 ore I

at the pedestal, but

about the pedestal itself," the Dean

Shang asked as his eyes

very brittle, and it can't absorb any Elemental or Neutral

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

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

tested it. Apparently, it counts as being at the

of

was a lot of

this was

is all yours," the Dean

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

that?" Shang asked. "I don't want

"Don't know," Sword answered.

only looked at it

absorbed about half of the pedestal before

Sword jumped into

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

50 units of ore, and it had absorbed 50 units

quickly made the connection in

the attack?" Shang

as when you use it yourself, but still quite

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

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

I use it?" Shang

it," Sword answered. "I can use it whenever. But you also need to

Shang nodded.

want me

the Dean answered, "you told 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. It's better to have the weapons

how powerful the attack is,"

his teacher. "You want me

the other side of the

feel good about this, and he became a bit

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.

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

a new

its initial appearance, but then Shang got

to make Sword a bit bigger, but not as big as

Shang readied his