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

looked at the pedestal, but he

talking about the pedestal itself," the

Shang asked as his eyes widened. "That's

ore is virtually useless. It's very brittle, and it can't absorb

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 a prize in and of

it. Apparently, it counts as being at the Initial

of Shang, and

was a lot

guessed that this was about 100

all yours," the

while, but he was interrupted by Sword

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

"Don't know," Sword answered.

it with a

absorbed about half of the pedestal

jumped

but I managed to transform the composition of myself. I can now destroy parts of myself to unleash a powerful

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

quickly made the connection in his

the

when you use it

me?" Shang asked. "Shouldn't your

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

can I use it?"

you also need to tell me how much you want to use. If I use everything, I

Shang nodded.

me to use

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

test how powerful the attack is," the Dean said as he

teacher. "You want me to use

on the other side of

didn't feel good about this, and he became a

in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most powerful warrior in the world while being at the

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

Shang and Sword talked about what they wanted Sword to look like in the future. The only reason why Sword had become so big was to

a new

they wanted to return Sword to its initial appearance,

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

his sword again.