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.

is the ore

pedestal, but he couldn't

the pedestal itself," the

as his

very brittle, and it can't absorb any Elemental or

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

and he used it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial. It wasn't

it. Apparently, it counts as being at the

put it in front of

a lot of

guessed that this was

all yours," the

a while, but he

it like that?" Shang asked. "I

"Don't know," Sword answered.

it with

about half of the pedestal

Sword jumped into

increase, but I managed to transform the

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

the

powerful is the

when you use it

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

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

use

you want to use it," Sword answered. "I can use it whenever. But you also need

Shang nodded.

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

if your weapon follows the same principle, it should be able to change its shape by sacrificing part of itself. It's better to

powerful the attack is," the Dean said

his teacher. "You want me

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

feel good about this, and

you might accidentally injure

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

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

a

Sword to its initial appearance, but then

idea, they both decided that they wanted to make Sword a bit

later, Shang readied his sword again.