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.

That is the ore I

at the pedestal, but he

talking about the pedestal itself," the

his eyes widened. "That's

"This ore is virtually useless. It's very brittle,

purposes, the ore is worthless. The only interesting

a pedestal for the actual prizes in his

it counts as being at the Initial

Dean put it in front of Shang, and

a lot

this

all yours,"

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

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

"Don't know," Sword answered.

it with

seconds, Sword rapidly absorbed about half of the pedestal before it

jumped into

explained. "My abilities didn't increase, but I managed to transform the composition of myself. I can now destroy parts of myself to unleash a powerful

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

the connection in his

the attack?" Shang

use it yourself, but still quite

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

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

I use it?"

you also need to tell

Shang nodded.

"You want me to

same principle, it should be able to change its shape by

to test how powerful the attack is,"

at his teacher. "You want me to use

the other side of the room.

this, and

actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most

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

they wanted Sword to look like in the future. The only reason

a

they wanted to return Sword to its initial appearance, but

both decided that they wanted to make Sword a bit bigger, but not

minutes later, Shang readied his sword again. "I