Jordan looked over the beasts/monsters before him, there were all the third phase beasts and second phase ones, a large number of the first phase one died only to slow down and exhaust the attacking angels but their sacrifice wasn't in vain.

In total there were 5 third phase beasts including Max and the beast William rides, sadly the strongest one Sunny was already dead.

As for the second phase beasts there were 60 of them, on about 45 or so there were goblins riding, they already returned from the fortress, they were a bit tired but nothing serious.

Few of them died or were injured but Jordan didn't bother with it, the number of injured is about to skyrocket with the upcoming battle.

The monsters here were the goblin riders and also the evolved ratmen, till now there were three evolution the ratmen went through, a first huge increase in mass height and strength, from the 1,2 meters (3ft 11in) tall ratmen they grew into 3 meters (9ft 10 in) tall and ripped as hell monsters, they had their bodies in the second rank but with the mass they had they could rival even Jordan in strength, to make it simple Jordan decided to call these "ratmen strongman"

The second evolution the ratmen went through was a great increase in movement ability, they were fast, cunning, and silent, if they were properly trained they could be excellent assassins, because of this even though it was still a bit too soon Jordan decided to call them "ratmen assassins"

And lastly, there was the third evolution, the mage one, for now, they were only first circle mages so there was nothing to say about them. Those were simply "ratmen mages"

Under Jordan's control, there are 3 ratmen strongmen, 2 assassins, and 3 mages. The mages were stationed inside the buildings and won´t be directly involved in the battle.

As for the lizardmen, there are 20 of them, they are all around 2 meters (6ft 7in) tall with huge muscles and thick limbs, there aren't any evolution for now, but the lizardmen are becoming more and more intelligent the more the mutation progress, some of them even learned some word in English, it looks like the less intelligent species is the more evolution there are, ´is it natural order to keep the balance? Well, whatever…´

"Everyone gets in position" with this the battle was about to start, the group of angels and humans was almost at the town´s main hall, Jordan´s residence.

This is where the showdown will be, the angels and the humans they brought were already tired, and it looked like they may retread at any moment and this is something that can´t happen.

Letting them go will only create problems in the future, they might integrate themselves into the other camps that are still standing or might just leave the town and join some big group of angels which will surely come for Jordan in the future.

And there is the matter of the sweet sweet crystals that can Jordan gain if he kills the angels, it was only a guess based on the angels' strength, but some of them are surely from middle rank.

The leader may even be from upper rank, if Jordan manages to kill the leader he will make a quick buck, and let's not forget about the mission issued on the platform to capture the city… with it, he could finally feel rich for a while.

BUT this will have to wait for later because if he fucks up now, he will get nothing instead he will lose everything.

Jordan nervously stood in the middle of the street, the smile on his face was much more crazy than usual, the triangular fangs that were supposed to be his teeth only make thing worse, the horns were giving off a weird vibe, tiny black streaks of black smog were being produced from his body.

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The plan was simple, Jordan will act as bait. He will stand in the middle of the street right in the way of the angels once they see him they will try to kill him as fast as possible, once they run at Jordan all the beasts will attack and hopefully gain a bit of advantage.

Well... it was a bad plan and the moment of surprise is weak but it's better than nothing. Normally Jordan wouldn't do something this dangerous, but he observed the angels and probed their strength, he was confident in holding them for a bit or at least escaping from them.

The number of humans under the angels sharply dropped and there are only around 30 awakened humans and 50 non-awakened ones, there are also 4 angles, one of them is cursed but the witch Mary, when looking at the numbers Jordan has quite the advantage.

Jordan waited and surely the exhausted humans showed themselves, behind them there were the angels, one of the angels was supporting a female angel who looked sick, black ooze was flowing from her eyes.

But this is as much as the curse can go, Jordan tested it on himself, anyone with an awakened center is still resistant to the death curse, Mary will need to be much more proficient to kill any awakened.

Jordan was waiting for the angels, his war-axe was proudly on display in his hands, he was nervous but also excited, in the fight he can let go, he can kill without restraint, feed the monster inside of him, or better feed himself.

The humans marched in on the street where Jordan stood, they stopped for a moment and then began to move in without hesitation.

The angels, on the other hand, all run at Jordan the moment they saw him, except the cursed angels they all just stormed Jordan, without even thinking they threw themselves on the hated enemy.

Everyone was tired, the mission of killing the demon and reclaiming the city turned into a disaster, only the quick death of the demon could save it a bit.

Jordan activated his shield spell just in time to block the incoming fireball, cracks formed on the shield but otherwise, the shield was fine, he had no time to ponder about that as another angel got near him and attacked him with a spear, Jordan averted the spear with his ax but mace of the third angel was already closing from another side.

Infusing his hands with mana the skin on Jordan´s hands turned black and the bright blue mana was floating around them.

Jordan caught the mace with his hand and made the mana around his hands envelop it, the force behind the attack made his hand numb but it was still doable while holding the mace Jordan pulled it to himself and swung his war-axe with his other hand.

Seeing the incoming axe the angel let go of the mace and stepped back, what he didn't expect was that Jordan letting go of the ax, the ax flew and hit the head of the angel, bloody crack showed itself on the angel's head and white blood was pouring out.

But the handle of the ax was still enveloped in the mana from Jordan´s hand, he used this mana and made the axe return back to his hand, the movement was a bit stiff but the surprise attack was very successful. This was one of the applications of the ability his hands and legs had.

The range from which Jordan could get the axe back was limited and once the enemy saw the move it will become useless but it's still a nice trick to get hit in.

The angel with the spear didn't let the chance go and made several deep cuts in Jordan's side, the skin natural armor slowed the spear, but it was hardly noticeable.

The angel that send the fireball didn't idle around, two fireballs at once suddenly flew at Jordan, Jordan moved the shield to stand in was while he cast the shield spell once more, he conquered the second shield behind the first one to stop the fireballs the best he could.

The first fireball completely shattered the first shield and small cracks appeared on the second shield the second fireball destroyed the second shield.

While the fireballs flew on Jordan the angels that attacked Jordan in melee retreated, Jordan made use of this and after the blast, he retreated a bit as well.

While standing about 6 meters from the angels he smiled with the sweetest smile he could and said "Shouldn't you worry about them" and pointed behind the angels, they were so immersed in the battle that they didn't notice the humans, they were in a death struggle with the beasts and monsters and clearly, they were losing.

The faces of the angels were disordered with anger and hate, one of the angels said with spite almost dripping from his words "cut the head and the body will DIE!"

The trio of angels attacked Jordan with even more ferocious attacks.