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 ore I

looked at the pedestal, but he couldn't see

the pedestal itself," the Dean

pedestal?" Shang asked as his

very brittle, and it can't absorb any

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

Old 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 in and of

counts as being at

of

a

guessed that this was

is all yours," the

but he was interrupted by Sword

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

"Don't know," Sword answered.

at it

seconds, Sword rapidly absorbed about half of the

Sword jumped

as much as I can take," it explained. "My abilities didn't increase, but I managed to transform

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

the connection

powerful is the

as powerful as when you use it

me?" Shang

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

I use

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

Shang nodded.

want me

Affinity, and if your weapon follows the same principle, it should be

to test how powerful the attack is,"

want me

the other side of the room. "If I feel any danger, I

about this,

in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most powerful warrior in the world while being

his nervous expression transformed into an

to look like in

needed a new

Sword to its initial appearance, but then Shang got an

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

minutes later, Shang readied his