Jordan made a shopping list of what he needs to buy then he ordered some of the humans to bring him the bodies of the angels together with a change of cloth, even though Jordan couldn't care less about the cloth it was still something he has to do. Sure, he could just go there looking like a demon hobo, some of the demons did that but it's not so troublesome to change, he should represent his settlement.
Jordan roughly calculated and sadly he may not have enough crystals for everything he wants, some things will have to wait till he conquers the rest of the city and gains the price of 5000 crystals, with this kind of money he may even afford to waste some of the crystals on the experiments that he has in mind.
In the basement of the church, Jordan activated the crystal device that connected him to the moon and while the device was creating the connection to the moon, he changed his cloth and washed in bucked of water.
Several humans brought the angel corpses and let them before the church, seeing the 8 bodies of the angels, 6 from the attack, and 2 from conquering the town, Jordan was left thinking. It looks like he will have to take some goblins with him to carry the language.
The portal finally appeared and Jordan stepped through, now Jordan already knew where is what located so he quickly made his way to his handler together with two goblins which each carried two angel corpses, Jordan was carrying another two while making two levitate before him.
Seeing Jordan, the other demons on the platform couldn't help but look his way with respect, fear, or greed in their eyes. Surprisingly, it felt quite good, such attention made Jordan´s smirk grew even wider to form a vicious smile.
While walking toward his handler one demoness made her way toward Jordan and said "hi, handsome~, how about some fun for one of those corpses" said the demoness while showing her generous bosom, the demoness had long black hair, long legs, and skin white and smooth as milk, with her looks she may even be a succubus.
Jordan stopped for a moment, enjoyed the view while looking straight at her cleavage, after few seconds he looked up straight at the demonesses eyes and said "sorry, I am not interested in spending money on ugly bitches" the demoness was stunned while Jordan was already walking away, it took her few second to digest what she heard and once she realized it she started shouting "UGLY? YOU ARE UGLY YOU BASTARD YOU WOULD DIE FOR A NIGHT WITH ME!"
Leaving the stream of curses behind Jordan couldn't help but shake his head, ´what a shame, I would love to have some fun but the budget is tight… maybe next time, at least my rejection was smooth´, his tongue was one of the things Jordan was proud of, easily solving unexpected situations with words is one of his strong points.
Jordan made it to his handler and waited in line for a bit after that it was his turn, Jordan approached the handler and threw all the corpses on the table. Under the weight of the corpses, the table began to moan.
All the corpses were without centers of power but otherwise, they were fine, except the one that Sunny made into a statue, Jordan brought the whole corpses to earn extra money in the catalog it was stated that the corpses may have parts that can be used to create items or potions and can be sold for extra crystals.
The slime handler was just standing there for a moment before he wobbled and said, "what is your name?" "Jordan, Jordan Hall" the slime "I will remember that" after that, the slime grew a stump from his "body" and cast the spell to identify the corpses.
On each one of the corpses, he cast the spell and once he was done, he said "3 low-rank upper part, 2 middle ranks low part, 1 middle-rank middle part, one middle-rank upper part and one…. Upper-rank middle part… it is the first one of this rank I see… you were lucky the angel wasn't mature, if he was you would be most likely dead" Jordan wasn't quite sure, but it looked like the slime is surprised?
The slime "for the bodies of the angels under the upper rank you will receive 2550 crystals, as for the angel in the upper rank, he will be put up for auction as his body is very valuable, here take this, it's the proof of the transaction for the upper-rank angel" the slime gave Jordan a stone card that looked a bit like a business card.
The slime "the next auction is in two days so come after that, that´s all" Jordan said his goodbye and left in good mood, he didn't expect this much money, and the angel leader was in upper rank? What a win! But what was the slime telling him about the now-dead leader, ´he wasn't mature yet? I guess he would be mature in the fourth rank then… shit… looks like I still have much to do, I need to get stronger asap´
With this done Jordan opened the gate and send the goblins back, after that he checked the list he made, and first on the list there was the money. He needs some alternative to the crystals or dollars, he can´t use the crystals because they are too valuable and he can´t use the dollars because they are worthless, in future when the merchants from other cities came they might bring tons of money from the now-empty banks and "steal" all the resources in exchange for worthless paper, that´s why Jordan wants new currency that isn't easily replicated.
Jordan got in the gate that went to the world with the dwarf-like creatures, it took a bit of time and bantering, designing but the currency was solved with this, the dwarf-like creature will create coins for him with exclusive design, they won´t sell it to anyone else and will provide him with as many coins as Jordan want, for 1 crystal Jordan will receive 50 coins of any type.
For now, Jordan with the dwarf-like creature designed three types of coins, first value 1, second value 10, third value 100. Those coins will have the first half with a human face and the other with the face of various monsters, to keep it interesting. For starters Jordan ordered 20 000 coins, it hurt his wallet like crazy but it´s a necessary expense. The coins will be done in two days, so Jordan will just pick them up after the auction.
With this out of the way, Jordan whipped up the list he made and checked another item from his list. It was a technique for himself to improve his center of power, with this Jordan moved to the world of Esphar.
Jordan walked through the gate and once again he found himself in the huge library, demons were flying everywhere around either with their own wings or thank various devices, some had books in their hands and looked almost like students, some talked between themselves and laughed at their jokes.
It was like the library was part of some huge academy but Jordan had no time for this, he made his way to one of the tables and asked the demon here for the book on the technique "hi, I want a technique to increase my circle rank" The demon was obviously bored and half-heartedly answered "go to the this (pointing) section"
Jordan went where the demon sends him and find a section with scrolls all over, those scrolls were ordered and had various descriptions, Jordan read through them, and in the end, he bought three of those scrolls.
Two of them were for the humans in the camp, first was to reach a third rank body from the first rank, the second one was a technique that guided one to reach the first second, and then the third circle from the first one, and lastly the technique Jordan bought for himself was usable from the third circle to the fifth one, this all cost him 1350 crystals but Jordan was able to scratch another two items from the list.
In theory with the mana that is inside everyone, anyone should be able to advance their bodies, even those that aren't awakened but the time needed would be incredibly long, for a normal human to reach the third rank of the body it would take a lifetime of training.
Next was mutation for regeneration, after the transformation Jordan´s body was unable to return to back and was destroyed that's why Jordan wanted some mutation to help him survive if he had to activate the ability again.
Jordan approached the bored demon and asked, "where can I buy some potion that will increase my regeneration?" the demon looked at Jordan and said with a chuckle "HAHA, you wish, those are top tier potions regulated by the nobles… even for the cheapest one you will have to pay at least 100 000 crystals! HAHA"
Jordan´s smile almost disappeared from his face, but he put up with it and just bought a book that explained how mutations happened and what triggered them, the book cost only about 150 crystals so it was fine, it was to probe how the mutations work and maybe if he finds something with the knowledge from the earth he may try to create his own potion to trigger mutation in his body.
With the rest Jordan bought a book that explained how to use mana without a center of power, he bought this book to teach all the citizens of his camp, he thought about this for a long time and he concluded that all the citizens must have some basic training.
With the training he can scout out talents and have them awaken, also the citizens need the power to reel in forced workers that will be under them. It may not be much but even a proper first circle spell can kill a normal human, the citizens also need protection against Jordan´s beasts and monsters, even though they are under his control from time to time some beast or monster cause trouble until now Jordan didn't bother himself with it but now he may have to.
With all this shopping done, and most of his crystal spend Jordan returned to his camp while having his hand full of various books and scrolls.