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 couldn't see

the pedestal itself," the

Shang asked as his eyes widened.

nodded. "This ore is virtually useless. It's very brittle, and it can't absorb any Elemental or

all intents and purposes, the ore is worthless. The only

it due to its rarity, and he used it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial. It

tested it. Apparently, it counts as being at the Initial Commander Stage

front of

was a lot

that this was about 100

yours," the

a while, but he

Shang asked. "I

"Don't know," Sword answered.

only looked at it with a

seconds, Sword rapidly absorbed about half of the pedestal before

jumped

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

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

made the connection

is the attack?" Shang

it

heavier and harder than me?" Shang

it isn't," Sword answered. "I

use

you also need to tell me how much you want to use. If I use everything, I

Shang nodded.

the Dean. "You want me to use the attack to change Sword's appearance?"

same principle, it should be able to change its shape

how powerful the attack

"You want me

Dean nodded as he stopped on the other side of the room. "If I

didn't feel good about this, and he became a

and lifted an eyebrow in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you

nervous expression transformed into

that, Shang and Sword talked about what they wanted Sword to look like in the future. The only

a

wanted to return Sword to its

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

readied his sword again. "I will