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

at the pedestal, but he couldn't

about the pedestal itself," the Dean

Shang asked as his eyes widened. "That's

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

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

its rarity, and he used it as a pedestal for

Apparently, it counts as being at the

of Shang,

a lot of

this was

is all yours," the

a while, but he was interrupted by Sword jumping

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

"Don't know," Sword answered.

at it with a

seconds, Sword rapidly absorbed about half of the pedestal before

Sword jumped

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

and it had absorbed 50

quickly made the

the attack?"

you use it yourself, but still quite

you heavier and harder than me?" Shang asked.

it isn't," Sword answered. "I don't

I use

to use it," Sword answered. "I can use it whenever. But you also need to tell me how much you want to use. If I use

Shang nodded.

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

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.

powerful the attack

looked at his teacher. "You want me

nodded as he stopped on the other side of the room.

didn't feel good about this,

and lifted an eyebrow in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most

nervous expression transformed into an embarrassed chuckle.

talked about what they wanted Sword to look like in the

needed a

its initial appearance,

that they wanted to make Sword a bit

his