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

pedestal, but he

pedestal itself," the

his

It's very brittle, and it can't absorb

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

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

it counts as

it in front of

a lot

that this

all yours," the Dean

at it for a while, but he was

that?" Shang asked. "I don't

"Don't know," Sword answered.

it with

rapidly absorbed about half of

jumped into

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

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

quickly made the connection in his

the

as when you use it yourself, but still quite powerful," Sword

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

but I'm pretty sure it

can I use it?" Shang

But you also need to

Shang nodded.

at the Dean. "You want me to use the attack to

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 forge themselves

attack is," the Dean said

at his teacher. "You want me to use

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

good about this, and he became a bit

you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most powerful warrior in the world while being

nervous expression transformed into an embarrassed

what they wanted Sword to look like in the future. The only reason

needed a new

return Sword to its initial appearance,

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

Shang readied his sword again.