Realization

Jordan was eating the elemental beasts with such speed it looked like he was not even chewing. It did not matter to him if he was eating organs bones or the beast´s brain, every bit was devoured.

These beasts were hunted by one of the patrols around the area but it was getting increasingly harder to secure a steady supply of elemental beast corpses, as the humans adapted and learned how to fight the beasts in the town were steadily decreasing.

The problem with the mana rich food was that for storing just freezing it didn't work as the mana started to disperse after some time making it impossible to effectively store them, there might be some enhancements capable of slowing the dispersion of mana but the tome he had didn't have any information about it.

The only acceptable option to keep the bodies fresh is to keep the beasts alive as livestock.

Like this, the beasts can be used as patrols or hunting packs but as the beasts have some low level of intelligence if they saw that they are kept only for meat they would surely run away.

Jordan continued to devour the elemental beast bodies while Mary, William, Jane, and the group leaders were standing around.

They were here to make sure that Jordan is alright and did not suddenly go crazy, but now they did not know how to act or what to think.

Good thing was that Jordan didn't suddenly attack them but the bad was almost everything else before they thought that the humans in the camp slowly started to accept demon as their leader but with those new mutations...

The fear will start all over again, there will be rumors about ´if his body changes to this extend who guarantees that his mind won't change as well?´ and so on.

But the worst thing would be if Jordan´s mind truly changed, everyone, besides William and Mary, was scared of that possibility and they waited for Jordan to stop eating.

It took about ten minutes and two whole bodies before Jordan finally stopped, slowly he stood up, with his huge body plus the horns that make him look even taller Jordan towered over all the people here.

With a smile that with the triangular fangs gained a whole new level of being creepy, Jordan said.

"looks like I survived, and I think I am still the same as before so you can stop worrying"

Sadly for Jordan, more than about him they were worried that Jordan will suddenly become crazy, if that happened there was little chance for most of the humans in the camp to survive.

Jordan knew that they were scared for their lives but he just didn't have it in him to try and convince them otherwise, it was too much of a pain.

But one thing Jordan didn't expect and it was Jane.

"and are you ok? Are you hurt anywhere?" Jordan was stunned by such affection!

For a moment a didn't know what to say but the rules of conversation kicked in "I am fine thanks for asking" Jordan tried to gently smile but only managed to show his triangular shark-like teeth that perfectly fitted in themselves making a sparklingly white creepy smile.

Seeing that smile the group awkwardly smiled as well, seeing how forced they were Jordan couldn't help but shook his head.

"I am not going to eat you, just be useful alright? And bring me some new clothes"

The clothes Jordan currently had on himself were drenched in black blood and bits of flesh were stuck on them, so it was time to change.

With no time to waste Jordan just tore the cloth from himself and threw it away, being completely naked he stood unfazed before the group.

Something like nudity did not bother Jordan, especially since the mutations, the same could not be said about the group though.

"I will be remaking my spell and analyzing what changed about my body… bring me the cloth to the study… and also order somebody to clean this room" the room Jordan used as his room was destroyed and flesh with black blood was everywhere.

With this Jordan left the group and went away, leaving the men feeling insignificant and the women scared but that was to be expected with how tall Jordan was.

Jordan went to the study and sat down on the ground, for few minutes he did nothing, staring at a wall Jordan didn't think about anything, he let his mind clear itself, enjoying the peace of the moment Jordan closed his eyes.

Like that Jordan rested until someone he didn't know delivered him the new cloth, he changed and thought to himself

´agh... it´s time to get working again... I can laze around once a conquer the town´ conquering the town was the goal Jordan set for himself.

With the town under his control, Jordan would finally gain some leverage, the town will serve as a shield while also providing him with crystals, manpower, and so on-

Conquering this city will also accomplish one of the missions from the moon-platform as almost all the towns had a bounty and Hazleton was no different.

The bounty was based on around 1000 crystals per 10000 humans so for conquering the Hazelton Jordan can earn 5000 crystals plus the monthly payment per human, with this amount of crystals it would be finally possible to slow down a bit but that was all in the future and there was also big IF.

And this if was IF the angels don't screw it up, there were already the scouts sneaking around making Jordan believe that they are planning something, with the wild goblins Jordan gained a bit of time but he still doubted that the angels would ignore such a threat as him.

´That can wait for later, now it´s time to see what changed´ Jordan started to meditate and focused on his body, there were changes all over it, each of his mutations such as horns, claws, second heart, and so on improved by big portion, the quality of the mana that could fuel third circle spells was amazing.

It was as the information he gained said.

The mutations such as claws, horns are tightly connected to the quality of mana, the higher the quality the better will be those mutations as they are refined and fueled by the better mana. BUT if your center of power is crippled and you can´t provide high-quality mana, those mutations would slowly deteriorate until they reach the simplest form.

Jordan analyzed every corner of his body and noticed the increase in his senses, the density of muscles, and the hardness of his bones, everything increased significantly yet it would be still some time before Jordan reaches the fourth rank with his body.

To reach the fourth rank one´s body must be able to easily manipulate 5x times the weight of their body, unlike the third rank that required only 3x the amount.

Currently, Jordan can manipulate around 4x times the weight of his body.

There were two last significant things Jordan noticed, one was regeneration, Jordan tested it and made a shallow cut with his claw and saw it heal at visible speed, after cutting himself the wound completely disappeared in an hour, with such regeneration Jordan felt that even re-growing missing limbs is possible.

And one more thing... that one was more obscure, there was something that Jordan discovered but didn't know what to do with it, it was in his second heart.

In his second heart, there was a sort of a switch.

Jordan felt that instead of distributing the mana to his body he could just let his second heart consume it all, if he did so he knew by instinct that he would gain a huge increase in strength but he also knew by instinct that it was extremely dangerous.

"I guess this will have to wait´, With this done, Jordan began to test his mana perception, he wanted to know the sudden reason behind his recent mutation.

Jordan closed his eyes and focused, very slowly he moved his attention to the mana in his second heart, and instead of controlling it he felt new uses of it and by instinct, he infused himself into it and suddenly it was like he moved from his head to the cluster of mana.

After calming himself down Jordan moved the mana wisp and flew outside of his body, it was incredibly strange, he did not have legs or arms and just floated in the air.

But thing got even stranger once he got outside his body, everything was like underwater with a blue filter, moving felt like pushing through jelly, currents of mana were moving around and the mana acted in all sort of ways almost like a breeze of air that isn't restrained by walls or the laws of nature.

Jordan´s mind floated in the wisp form around and he let himself be carried by a current of mana, it was like being carried on an extremely comfortable bed.

It took a while until Jordan calmed himself, this was completely out of his expectations. But all that good mood was demolished the moment he looked at his body, only one look was enough for him to understand.

His body generated black smog around itself and in his wisp form Jordan could sort of taste the smog, he did so and when he tasted it he felt incredible pleasure, it was despair, hatred, fear all the negative emotions.

Jordan mutated thanks to his negative emotions but that was not all, now he fully transformed and became the manifestation of those negative emotions.

Small black streaks were constantly floating toward Jordan´s body, the body was like a black hole that attracted all those negative emotions and then used them to refine itself.

It all made sense now, why the succubus kept all the prisoners and why the mutations were triggered when Jordan killed the two scouts.

<mana is affected by will, with will you can move it around and control it, but mana is also affected by emotions such as fear or happiness, the mana affected by such emotions is tainted with it and will form clusters that will normally disperse after some time.

If a place is constantly exposed to one type of emotion, a special type of ground can be formed such as holy ground or cursed ground, the holy ground will be able to partially purify negative energy (emotions) and will amplify the positive ones, the cursed ground is the opposite.>