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.

the ore

the pedestal, but he couldn't see

pedestal itself," the Dean

Shang asked as his eyes widened. "That's the

virtually useless. It's very

ore is worthless. The only interesting aspect is its

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

it. Apparently, it counts as being at

it in front of Shang,

was a lot of

that this was

yours," the

but he was interrupted by

that?" Shang

"Don't know," Sword answered.

looked at it with a raised

about half of the pedestal

jumped

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

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

the connection in his

the attack?"

you use it

than me?" Shang

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

I use

whenever. But you also need to tell me how much you

Shang nodded.

he looked back at the Dean. "You want me to use the attack to change Sword's

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

I want to test how powerful the attack

at his teacher. "You want me to use it on

of the room.

feel good about this, and he

that you might accidentally injure the most powerful

expression transformed into an embarrassed chuckle.

like in the future. The only reason why Sword had become so big was

needed a new

to its initial appearance, but then Shang got

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

minutes later, Shang readied his sword