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 I need!" Sword

the pedestal, but

talking about the pedestal itself," the

asked as his eyes widened.

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

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

pedestal for the actual prizes in

it counts as

in front of Shang,

a lot

this

is all yours,"

at it for a while, but he was interrupted by Sword jumping onto

you absorb all of it like that?" Shang

"Don't know," Sword answered.

at it with

rapidly absorbed about half of the

Sword jumped into Shang's

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

and it had absorbed 50 units of ore from the pedestal just

made the connection in

the

it yourself, but still

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

sure it isn't," Sword

I use it?" Shang

can use it whenever. But you also need to tell me how much you want to use.

Shang nodded.

"You want me to use the attack

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 than to

I want to test how powerful the attack

his teacher. "You want

the other side of the room. "If I feel any danger, I

about this,

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

nervous expression transformed into an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry. I think I forgot

Sword to look like in the future. The only reason why Sword

a new

to return Sword to its initial

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

minutes later, Shang readied his sword again.