85 Moon-platform meeting

Several months later

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Jordan was walking down the streets of Hazleton together with Jane, currently, he was on one of his regular circuits to check the progress and to keep everyone from lazing around.

It didn't take long and Jordan together with Jane made it before the new barracks where intelligent monsters and awakened humans trains.

The barracks were composed of a remodeled school and it´s a playground, it was far from barracks that the army uses but it was enough, on the playground, there was a long circular running track on which were constructed various obstacles, and in the middle were used to be football pitch there were now training dummies and various people/monsters training with wooden swords or casting mostly first circle magic.

In those improvised barracks there were training all the awakened humans and intelligent monsters that were under Jordan´s control.

There were other training facilities but those were only for the normal people that didn't awaken, to have better control over the knowledge and the people that have it, Jordan decided to have one main training facility rather than several of them.

Thanks to that there are almost none "lost" resources or stolen techniques and all the talented individuals can get directly scouted, it's a win-win. In the future, there may problems with capacity or the hard access to the "academy" but for now, it´s fine and there are more pressing matters that need attention.

Until now the barracks, or academy if you want, produced little over 200 awakened humans with both the awakened brain or heart and nearly 150 monsters such as goblin/ratmen mages or hobgoblin/lizardmen warrior and sometimes there are even unique cases such as giant bipedal ratmen or rare goblin evolution, those immediately upon graduation receive a commanding position in the army.

And the army was currently spread across the borders of Jordan´s territory with only part of it being stationed inside of any city, lately, there was unrest from the angels as they began to ally themselves to eradicate the demons.

Jordan continued on his way and checked various building such as the hospital, the canteen, and so on, everything was going nicely, everyone was doing their best to combine what they know together with the mana.

In the kitchen, they used stoves powered by mana and fridges were rooms filled with enhancements that kept the temperature low, while the outside tables were kept in a circle that did the opposite and kept the already melting snow away.

In the hospital they used the mana instead of x-ray, scalpels, even hands, by now the awakened doctors learned how to handle the raw mana, and thanks to it they gained a sort of "telekinesis" and with it came to the drastic change despite the horrible conditions that didn't follow any regulations.

But the supply of medicine was drastically shrinking after the mana came half of the medicaments became unusable because of the changes within and after sorting those out the supply could be used only for emergencies.

Because of this there was created a group of gardeners that was especially focused on the cultivation of the new herbs that appeared or mutated. Those herbs were vital not only for medication or various healing potions, but the main use of those herbs was for awakening potions.

There was a huge demand for the awakening potions, it was basically the first thing everyone would set their eyes on once they become citizens, but the demand was higher than the offer and even those that had the contribution points for the potion were forced to wait.

And like that the potion became exclusive merchandise, the waiting positions for the awakening potion became marketable, with quite the sum of money one could buy the "next in line" for the potion and skip the long waiting period.

Some clans and groups that had high standing and could get the awakening potions earlier thanks to their connections used this opportunity and baited talented individuals to their side.

Overall, it was nothing new, the politics and schemes started to show themselves.

What is new is that several armed groups formed, those groups have consisted of people which don't fully agree with Jordan´s ruling but don't fully disagree either or there are just people that do not like to be tied.

One such group was the former "adventurers guild" but Jordan was pissed about the name, so he ordered them to change it. Why have an adventure in a name when all you do is killing monsters/beasts that get near the town… that´s just plain stupid, those people are no adventures, and as such Jordan named them civil defenders.

Those people aren't much different from the town guards, the main difference is that they can keep most of their kills but the risks they go through are much higher. For example, when patrol encountered a pack of wild beasts, they can´t handle they will give info about it to the civil defenders and so on, the civil defenders will kill the beasts, receive some reward and keep the body of the killed beasts, they used those bodies to craft armors, cloth, weapons but mostly they get meat from it.

Many businesses were opening such as stalls with food, shops that handled leathers and made cloth, shops that were making tableware, construction materials, and many more.

The citizens that seized the opportunity were becoming rich while building a solid foundation, the only catch was that they had to give quite a big tax to Jordan.

Still, the city prospered, the new building being constructed every day, and roads were being repaired and secured while the forced workers were hauling materials from nearby forests or mines, and the cars were being remade to work with mana or just scraped for metal that was then processed into weapons by the undead smith and the other smiths that were learning.

After checking everything and making sure that everyone is doing their job Jordan began to return, it was about time for his meeting with the other demon on the moon-platform. Even though it was against his nature the situation was dire, all the angels in the surrounding areas got together and formed an alliance that was made of nearly twenty towns, Jordan has 4 towns under his control but that doesn't mean much as his army is mostly composed of beasts/monsters and citizens.

Thanks to that his army is quite small but with higher quality when compared to the angels but its not nearly enough to face the angels head-on, if they chose to attack him there would be little Jordan could do, and because of this Jordan send messengers to the demons nearby and planned a meeting with them at the moon platform.

Jordan together with Jane went to the church that was remade to be his temporary house and safe for his valuable items.

Jordan activated the teleporting crystal and in the meantime, before the crystal activated, he went with Jane to a room to have some alone time.

Jane spoke to Jordan while she undressed "you have to be careful about the demon in the east region, he is ruthless and is good at it, he killed most of the humans and replaced them with goblins and other monsters" Jordan "yeah I know, we already went several times over it"

Jordan bent over and slightly kissed Jane "don't worry I know what I am doing", when Jordan returned from the Centerville he confronted Jane and told her how he feels about her and Jane did the same, Jane´s confession was much much more heartfelt then Jordan´s that could be summarized as "I don't feel that much emotions I did as humans but I like you" while Jane was akin to "I will do anything for you, even die for you"

Several hours later Jordan left the exhausted Jane in bed and went to take a shower, after that he put on a clean formal cloth and went to the open gate.

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