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 I

at the pedestal,

the pedestal

pedestal?" Shang asked as his

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

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

it due to its rarity, and he used it as a pedestal for the actual

Apparently, it counts as being at the

in front of

a lot of

that this

yours," the Dean

it for a while, but he was

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

"Don't know," Sword answered.

only looked at it

Sword rapidly absorbed about half of

jumped into Shang's

take," it explained. "My abilities didn't increase, but I managed to transform the composition of myself. I can now destroy parts of myself to unleash a powerful

and it had absorbed 50 units of

the connection in his

the attack?" Shang

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

and harder than me?"

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

I use

But you also need to tell me how much you want to

Shang nodded.

the Dean. "You want me to use the attack

your weapon follows the same principle, it should be able to change

test how powerful the attack

his teacher. "You want me

stopped on the other side of the room. "If I feel

feel good about this, and he became a bit

"Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally

became surprised, and his nervous expression transformed into an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry. I think

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

needed a

return Sword to its initial appearance, but then Shang got an

wanted to make Sword a bit bigger, but not as

later, Shang readied his sword again. "I will