7 Back to town

When the last bit of mana got devoured by Jordan´s second heart, Jordan began to think what he should do next now, he could hide somewhere safe and try to make some spells or go to town and start to make name for himself.

With chaos everywhere and no one having decent control over the situation it should be quite easy to make connections, make a name for himself, or to get a powerful backer. ´backer is out of the question, I am not going to be someone´s dog again´ Jordan didn´t even consider working for someone else other than himself, with no police those with power will make the rules and finding someone with good intentions?

Jordan himself didn't have good intentions so there goes that, he can maybe try to exhort someone but that will depend on the situation and profit he could make, still the main problem of this is that it´s uncertain, and now isn´t time to gamble on luck that never was with Jordan.

So only secluding and hoping for enlightenment or going to town to secure resources is left for options, as of now with the tests Jordan did with mana he was sure that controlling the mana or any spell will be very difficult, without a teacher or some instruction the handling of mana is going to be long term process that could take several months, and that is just to master the basic so there goes that, in few months the situation can progress beyond anyone's control.

Instead, it's a better idea to a town and hopefully, he will meet someone very nice who is more proficient in mana and will be kind or weak enough to give Jordan few pointers.

Jordan made his decision and with this done on the morning of the eleventh day after the mana came Jordan was going to return to the town, behind his belt he had 2 axes and some knives for long-range combat, over his shoulder there was holding his two-handed hammer, the insides of Jordan´s backpack stayed the same, except that instead of bottles with water there were bottles with beast´s blood. Also, one thing to take note of, Jordan decided to no longer hide his horn, with his shaven face, cut hair, and best smile in his arsenal, Jordan was ready to make maidens all around the world fall heels over head for him.

Like that Jordan went back and with a quick 15 min jog Jordan returned to the populated part of town and he almost couldn´t believe his eyes. The streets which were crowded with people 3 days before were now empty, ´what happened here´

With the streets empty like that Jordan´s amazing deduction told him that he shouldn´t stand in the middle of the street, so he walked near walls and tried to be as quiet as possible.

Just to be safe Jordan frequently looked around and listened to the sounds ahead, he was using his enhanced senses to scout the area, and it looks like there are some people, especially in the house across the street, just to be safe Jordan first chose to observe them for a while from the nearby tower block and then he will try talking to them.

Just as Jordan was thinking about how to approach and question them, he heard something else, a pack of beasts was coming.

Jordan quickly hid a hallway of the nearby tower block and peeked through the broken door, pack of different beasts appeared on the street, the pack was composed of 12 normal dogs like beasts with different elements, different shapes, and sizes, the one beast that probably commanded them was two and a half meter tall (8 ft 2 in), 4 meters (13 ft) long dog beast with flames coming out of its mouth and huge sparks running through its fur.

Suddenly, the leading beast stopped and started to smell its surroundings with its snout high in the air, Jordan prepared to run up the stairs of the tower block when the beast started to smell ground and with confident steps made its way to the group of people that were hiding across the street, when the people hiding there saw it they didn´t wait for anything and quickly tried to escape.

With long steps, the leader beast approached the survivors and with a strong bite to the neck ended the life of the unfortunate survivor at least he was immediately dead, and just as the corpse was falling on the ground the leader beast sends a fireball with the size of a football ball toward the second survivor and hit him on the back.

That human survived with bad burns, but his life was ended quickly after as the rest of the pack finished him off, same for the third and fourth survivor, Jordan saw all of it from behind the corner and analyzed the battle.

´It looks like the streets of the city have new rulers let´s hope there aren´t many of them´ but looking at the leader beast Jordan began to imagine the beast in his ranks, with a beast like that his combat proves would explode but trying to control the beast while also facing the pack, seems like a bad idea, even though Jordan was confident in facing the leader 1v1 it would be completely different with the rest of the beasts in the mix.

Also one had to count in the leader beast´s fireball that was quite impressive and it´s safe to assume the leader beast also has some sort of electric spell, still, Jordan´s instincts were telling him that he was about as strong as the beast and his instincts have not betrayed him yet so he trusted them.

Before fighting such a beast he should first found some useful human meatshield or control other beasts to fight with him to have assurance in the fight, only fools will charge blindly in or leave the fight to chance.

While waiting for the beast to stop eating Jordan began to though where the rest of the people could be.

´with my luck, some other beam of light will come and take them away´ ´with streets full of danger like that it's only logical that everyone got together and hidden somewhere under the protection of others with awakened centers of power like myself´ and what was the best place for a big group of people to hide?

There would be several options like schools, factories, facilities meant for entertainment, and so on, but schools seem like a safe bet.

So, Jordan has chosen the nearest school and decided to check there for any survivors.

When the pack of beast finally left Jordan began to sneak away just to be sure, after a while he resumed his usual pace and went to the nearest school, he tried to be as quiet as possible and walked near walls just to be sure, better safe than sorry.

It didn't take all that long and Jordan was looking from behind a corner which by now became a tradition, the elementary school of Gorge Washington was now made into an improvised shelter, the fence that went around the school was reinforced with anything they found from poles to car doors and so on, behind the fence there were patrols made of 4 people armed with sharp sticks, these people were going around the fence and few patrols could be seen on the roof, that patrol on the roof was looking around for any possible threat while also cloth was hanged behind them on ropes and dried itself, the limited space of the school was being used as much as possible.

Jordan amused himself with how pathetic those people looked and then started to think about the best approach. ´I better make some preparation in case things goes as badly as I think they would´

It was about 10 am when Jordan found the survivor camp and it took him till 6 pm to make at least the smallest number necessary preparations, now it was about 3 hours till sundown so Jordan decided to slowly approach the improvised gate made from metal plates that were attached to a car, the car itself was the gate, by moving it out of the way they would open and close it.

With heavy steps and the best smile he could muster up Jordan approached the gate.

"well... here goes nothing"