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

looked at the pedestal, but he

pedestal itself,"

asked as his eyes widened.

virtually useless. It's very brittle, and

ore is worthless. The only interesting aspect

he used it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial.

tested it. Apparently, it counts as being

of Shang, and

a lot of

guessed that this was about

is all yours,"

it for a while, but he was interrupted

you absorb all of it like that?" Shang asked. "I don't want you to

"Don't know," Sword answered.

it with a raised

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

jumped

increase, but I managed to

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

quickly made the connection

is the attack?"

it yourself, but still quite powerful,"

heavier and harder than me?"

but I'm pretty sure it isn't,"

I use it?" Shang

it whenever. But you also need to tell me how much you want to use. If

Shang nodded.

he looked back at the Dean. "You want me to use the attack to

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

want to test how powerful the attack

teacher. "You want me to

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

feel good about this, and he became a bit

you might accidentally injure the most powerful warrior in the world while being at the

expression transformed into an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry. I

Sword to look like in the future. The only reason

a

to its initial appearance,

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

later, Shang readied his sword again. "I will