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 couldn't

the pedestal itself,"

pedestal?" Shang asked as his eyes

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

worthless. The

due to its rarity, and he used it as a pedestal for the actual prizes in his trial. It wasn't a prize in and of

counts as being

Dean put it in front of

was a

this was

yours," the Dean

for a while, but he was interrupted by Sword

Shang asked. "I don't want you to become even

"Don't know," Sword answered.

it

rapidly absorbed about half

Sword jumped into Shang's

"My abilities didn't increase, but I managed to transform the composition of myself. I can

50 units of ore, and it had

quickly made the connection in

powerful is the attack?" Shang

it yourself, but still quite powerful," Sword

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

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

use it?" Shang

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

Shang nodded.

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

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

attack is," the

his teacher. "You want

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

good about this, and he became a bit

eyebrow in skepticism. "Are you actually afraid that you might accidentally

into an embarrassed chuckle. "Sorry.

like in the future. The only reason why Sword

needed a new

they wanted to return Sword to its

make Sword a bit bigger, but not

readied his sword again.