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

pedestal,

pedestal itself," the

his

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

ore is worthless. The only interesting aspect

used it as a pedestal

it. Apparently, it counts as being at the Initial Commander Stage

Dean put it in front of

a

guessed that this

is all yours,"

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

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

"Don't know," Sword answered.

it with a raised

next seconds, Sword rapidly absorbed about half of

jumped into

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

ore, and it had absorbed 50 units of ore from

quickly made the

the attack?"

as powerful as when you use it yourself, but still quite powerful," Sword

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

but I'm pretty sure it isn't,"

use

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

Shang nodded.

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

told me of 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

want to test how powerful the attack is," the

"You want

of the room. "If I

good about this, and

you actually afraid that you might accidentally injure the most powerful warrior in the world while

and his nervous expression transformed into an embarrassed

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

needed a

wanted to return Sword to its initial appearance, but

they both decided that they wanted to make Sword a bit bigger, but

later, Shang readied his