The fight with the three angels progressed, the angels had a serious upper hand but Jordan was prepared for it, he was only going to fight as long as he has mana, with his body in the peak of the third rank and the mana in the third circle Jordan could stand his ground.

The leader of the angels was casting the third circle spells but his body rank was unknown, the angel with mace had a body in the second rank but made up for it by continuously strengthening himself as for the circle Jordan wasn't sure but probably second, the angel with the spear had a body in the third rank and occasionally strengthened himself so Jordan guessed he will have access to at least second circle mana as well.

The fight progressed and very quickly the angels found out Jordan´s weakness, even though Jordan was tall, strong with good magic variability he was quite slow.

Well.... compared to angels with a strong body who imbued himself with mana that had the meaning of speed, against such attack Jordan was especially weak, and if you add the other angel with mace who continuously tried to sneak in attack and the angel who keeps sending spell you will get quite unfavorable conditions.

It was only a few minutes or so since the fight started and Jordan´s body was already full of cuts and shallow wounds, few areas on his body were scorched from the spells and black blood was flowing everywhere covering the gray armor-like skin.

The various wounds weren't life-threatening thanks to Jordan´s excellent healing abilities that prevented excessive blood loss but still it hurt quite a bit and with time the situation would get only worse.

With heavy breathing, Jordan repelled another attack from the angel with a maze and new cuts appeared on his body, shower of ice shard flew his way but he blocked them with a cracked mana shield, the shield shattered, it was his fourth one.

Jordan was running out of the third circle mana, he still has quite a lot of the mana in the second circle but using it will stop the refining of it causing an even longer delay before he regenerates any third circle mana.

The mana for the third spell he had left will at most be enough for two more spells, Jordan quickly checked how were his beasts doing and saw that most of the humans were already dead, ´time for retreat´

Jordan rushed at the angel with mace ignoring the stabs from the angel with a spear, infusing himself with mana that had the meaning of speed Jordan managed to catch the angel.

He gripped the angel and continued running, another splash of ice shard came his way, blocking what he could with his new angel shield and tanking the rest.

Even though Jordan was running toward the angel who continuously cast spell his true goal was to escape, he wanted to give them the idea of a hurt beast that is risking its life in the final attack and instead slip away.

With a grin Jordan neared the angel caster, he infused his hands with mana and his skin on the arms got pitch black.

Jordan changed his grip and caught the angel he was dragging by the throat, Jordan cast the second circle of fireballs that manifested itself just between his hand and the angel´s throat.

The fireball erupted and the angel´s head was just blown away.

Before the angel caster could react the body of the death angel was pinned on him. Jordan threw the body on the caster and continued his escape.

Jordan´s arm was badly burned and mangled from the blast, not even the strengthening and the mana layer of protection could prevent the second circle fireball from zero distance but it worked and that's all that counts.

Just as Jordan was about to celebrate his escape white mist enveloped him, the mist was in a radius of 15 meters (50ft) from the angel caster and made a dome filled with the positive energy that angels were made up from.

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The energy enveloped Jordan making him sluggish, tired, his joints were suddenly not working properly, every step was a fight in itself, and worst of all the mist was entering Jordan´s wound and wreaking havoc inside his body, weak demons may perish just by being in this white mist.

By being enveloped in the mist Jordan lost all his speed and the angel with the spear caught up to him inflicting nasty wounds upon Jordan´s body, Jordan tried blocking and resisting but not only was he weaker in the white mist zone but it also looked like the angel with the spear was stronger.

Jordan tried to call his beasts, pouring bits of mana to his horns and shouting at them but just as he did that the angel with a spear made use of the moment and pierced Jordan´s left eye, on instinct Jordan flinched his head away and managed to at least prevent damage to his brain.

The beasts didn't stay still, seeing the struggle and hearing the attempt at calling them they went to help but just as they tried to get inside the dome of white mist they were blocked, on the edge of the dome, the mist formed a barrier.

It looked bad for Jordan, while blocking another attack small splash of ice shard came and buried itself in his back, ´fuck… I thought that at least the caster will be too preoccupied with the dome or whatever it is…. Fuck… I am going to die like that´

With his one good eye, Jordan caught glimpse of the angel caster, white blood pouring from his eyes, veins popping on his forehead, but still, the determination to kill was the most eye-catching thing, the angel was ready to die to end Jordan.

Seeing this Jordan couldn't help but warmly smile, the angel with the spear couldn't understand it though, and shouted with spite "YOU BASTARD! HOW CAN YOU SMILE NOW? JUST DIE!"

Jordan laughed from the deepest part of his heart and said "HAHAHA… no one ever before paid this much attention to me… why shouldn't I be happy? BUT I feel I should repay you!"

´It's fine if I die, even though it would be nice if I lived, I think I had good run… thousand times better than living like a dog…. I must say I enjoy living as a demon even though I basically only train to get stronger, well whatever, here goes nothing"

Jordan flipped the imaginary switch in his second heart and for a second he lost his consciousness only for it to be regained together with burning pain, it was pure pain in the worst form, same as when he mutated.

All Jordan's muscles moved, enlarged, or dispersed itself by the raw mana that took no considerations, bones were fragmented and immediately connected to create longer, thicker, and stronger bone structure, the skin burned off, all the conductors that were connected to Jordan´s second heart became vide open and like a river, they were pumping mana to every part of his body.

3,5 meter (12ft) tall demon with no skin and only pitch black muscles that were partially covered in black armor stood in the white dome, the demon wasn't completely black, beneath the armor and the muscles there was a blue substance that looked trapped and was making its best to get out.

Cracks were all over the demons body and the blue substance could be seen through them, the cracks covered every part of the body even the skull and the huge horns, it was like the demon was made of the blue substance and the black muscles, bones and armor were just hastily glued on.

As for the skull of the demon, two huge horns were as big as 1/5 of the demon's body, the demon had no skin even on his face making his shark-like fangs clearly visible, it looked like even the bones shifted to create the most terrifying smile, this together with one empty eyeball that was radiating the mana and the second eyeball glowing with completely dark green light, it made for nice horror scene.

Slowly from the back of the demon bright blue transparent wings emerged, those wings were huge if fully displayed they could be 12 meters (40 ft) vide.

With a swing of his hand that had sharp blade-like claws Jordan tear or chunk of meat from the angel with spear immobilizing him for a while but even though the transformation was beyond powerful Jordan felt like his life is coming to an end, bits of meat were falling off him, the mana was depleting and he couldn't feel anything of his body other than the pain.

While transformed Jordan could effectively resist the white mist but he didn't plan to stay to find out how long could he stay here, he quickly made his way out, with the subconscious flapping of his wing Jordan made it out of the barrier in no time, just as he left the barrier and got himself behind his beasts Jordan switched the imaginary switch and ended the transformation.

The pain attacked once again this time almost worse than before, even more, meat was falling from his body and with his one good eye Jordan saw how the pierced eyeball fell on the ground followed by his right hand which he burned before, his body was falling apart. ´shit… don't tell me I will die now that I escaped… just fuck my life...´

Jordan fell on the ground lifelessly, but luckily the angels did not choose to follow him as they were wary of the third phase beasts that were closely guarding the edge of the barrier.

Jordan kept enduring the pain, with every passing second he felt his life slipping by, but no matter what Jordan didn't give in, he was happy with his life, he was satisfied with his choices if that is how he is going to die then fine but he won't make it easy for himself like his mother, he will fight till the bitter end.