Jordan was sitting on the chair and was thinking about what to do next, he already accepted changes that happened to his body. He trained for years yet he never got even close to the body he had now, so it was an easy decision to accept the changes positive changes, after all, he went through hellish pain to get them.

As for his demon-like appearance Jordan was positive that once he shaves and at least ties up or cuts his hair, people will somehow accept him.

After all, he couldn't be the only human that mutated, it was quite common for animals, and even if only people who went through extreme pain when mana came mutated to this extend, his mutation will stand out and surely be quite rare but nothing he can´t handle.

Still, he was quite sure it will be a problem at first, with his increased strength he would be for sure needed to handle mutated animals and anything else that is yet to come. There will be people that will try to study him, control him, and possibly make him their dog. Now that gunpowder stopped working and a substitute was not yet available, or the current receipt adjusted, police and army held no control over the situation and the power is sure to swift.

With the emerging mutants, there will be power shifts in unpredictable ways, and those that are capable and caught the chance while they can gain the most from it.

And Jordan no longer wanted to be sheep and work hard every day so that some douche at the top can have a mansion and live like a king, He hated this even before he mutated and many times he thought that if he is ever to end his life he will take some of those people with him, but now after Jordan mutated it feels like those emotions and thought got amplified and even the thought of being manipulated is becoming more and more repulsive.

It was time for him now, he will live only for himself. Jordan could feel his ambition, maybe it was his new body, maybe his second near-death experience, but he was determined to prove his worth and make his own place in the changing world.

The options seemed unlimited, but right now he should try to get to know the situation outside and test the limits of his new body. Jordan did not know how much time passed after the beams of light, but the situation outside looked even more chaotic than usual, from time to time he could hear "where is my baby!" "-insert name- where are you!" and so on.

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Jordan started packing, he decided to check the situation outside and then move to some abandoned area and try out his new body. He put on his loosest hoodie and tried to cover up his horn as much as he could when he was done it was somewhat acceptable, there was a big bulge where his horn was but hopefully, people won´t pry.

Jordan packed all his food, some spare clothes, a paper notebook and few pens, one pot with some tableware, and all knives found in the kitchen.

After putting it all in the backpack while putting two knives behind his belt, Jordan did one final check by looking in the mirror, seeing his appearance he could not help but exclaim "I look absolutely horrifying"

Now with his hood all the way down to cover most of his face, his beard, creepy smile, and huge built, Jordan would not want to meet himself in a dark alley.

Few deep breaths later Jordan finally headed out, it only took few steps outside the doors and he could already see how much everything changed since his last trip outside.

There was no light from lamps only a few barrels with lit wood and also few lit cars together with blue light from the veins that came from the sky illuminated the streets and even though it was a deep night many people were moving here and there and almost everybody was looking for someone or something.

Jordan decided to ask some random about 20y old man who was smoking while leaning against a wall and with a lost gaze looking at the sky, Jordan approached him, put his best smile on, and asked.

"Hello friend, I hit myself in the head and was out for a bit can you tell me what is going on?" the smoking man looked at him and froze for a second, after that he just nodded while his eyes were open so much it looked like his eyeballs could fall off. ´Well this is going better than I thought´

"I blacked out while after the white beam came, a funny story the beams scared me so much I jumped from my bed and hit my head on ceiling HAHAHA"

"… ha ha…" said after a small pause, the man kept looking at Jordan and the ash from the cigarette already started falling. ´finally things go as bad as I thought… I just love it when a plan comes together"

"so, can you tell me when the white beams came and what happened?" The smoking man stared at him for a while but in the end, he rather decided to talk

"… the beams came yesterday at around the same time as is now, and as for what it was… no one knows but all kids under 16 years just disappeared… the beam came and took them!"

"oh, well… shit"

"yeah…"

Since no one spoke after that and with the man returning to smoking and staring at the sky, Jordan said his farewell and went away, after all, he got the information he wanted, and staying was pointless.

After the conversation, Jordan did not know what to think, why would the beams kidnap everybody under age 16? He had some crazy ideas but after few embarrassing moments when he tried saying "status" and so on Jordan confirmed that there wasn't any stupid system, he liked reading novels but a system that just appears out of nowhere and put all your abilities in 4 or so categories… well that just sounds like lazy writing.