Shopping and distributing

Jordan stripped his white shirt and laid face down on the table, from what he was told the rune will be like a tattoo so he intends to get it done on the back of his right shoulder.

After few minutes of waiting a young woman came in, she was barely dressed, had tanned skin covered with tattoos and piercings made of bones, long dark hair like those of a crow, completely dark eyes without pupils, and a seducing smile, but the smile was all wrong, Jordan could tell but didn't know why so he just smiled back, the situation started to get quite absurd, everyone was just smiling.

The butler and the woman both thought ´what´s wrong with him´ but they didn't probe and just got to work. The woman spoke "ehm… so, I will be making the rune with dragon blood and secret mix, prepare yourself for extreme pain" after saying this the woman cast a spell, and a tear in space appeared before here.

From the tear the woman retrieved a crystal bottle with gold liquid inside, the bottle was very small, just like a bottle of perfume. After that the woman once again pulled something from the tear and brought out a bright red feather from which smoke was going off "this is the feather of phoenix I will be doing the imbuing with, do not move while I work, if you do you could die or the rune could be destroyed, understand?" Jordan "yes, let´s get started"

The woman nodded and opened the crystal bottle, despite the bottle being open Jordan still saw a blue barrier covering it.

The woman cast few spells, some targeting the bottle, some the feather quill, after she was done, she came to Jordan and got to work. The gold substance from the crystal bottle flew outside of it, drop after drop, the substance landed on Jordan.

It felt as if little balls of iron were laid on his back but nothing painful, just as Jordan thought it wouldn't be all that bad the woman started to work with the feather quill.

Jordan clenched his teeth so hard they started to grind, gripping the table sides with so much strength that his hand started to get bloody, his smile was deformed to grimace, but he held on. A sizzling sound came from his back as his skin was burned off, his natural armor couldn't resist at all and was burned off together with his skin.

Like this Jordan endured without moving even an inch and finally, after few minutes that felt like hours it looked like the rune is done because the woman suddenly stopped but what the woman told him next shattered his mood "now will come the worst, I have to connect the rune with your center of power, don't resist"

Without saying anything Jordan just thought to himself ´well shit´ and waited for more pain to come, and once again the burning sensation came, this time there was added stabbing pain, Jordan could feel the feather quill piercing his skin and then going even further to his second heart.

For a second it felt like his center of power is boiling but after that, the pain started to fade, the woman retrieved the feather that was almost entirely turned to ash and put it in the tear in space together with a half-empty crystal bottle. "it´s done"

Jordan sat down and conquered two mirrors from ice, holding one in hand and making the other one levitate behind him Jordan was able to see his back, the quality of what he saw was bad and he had to focus to see anything but still he managed to see the tattoo on his back. There was a tattoo on his back that looked a bit like "U" with "X" in it. Strangely enough, the tattoo was black and not gold like the blood, seeing that Jordan let out a sigh ´I don't have to look like clown…´.

The woman who did the tattoo and the butler both curiously looked at Jordan, at first they despised him a bit, after all, few weak before, this demon was still human but looking at him now, they couldn't help but wonder. The butler thought to himself ´from what I was told the mana is in his world for few months and he is already a mature demon, also he handled the pain way better than I expected the demon smiled through the whole process… it´s the first time I saw something like that, maybe the demons on earth will be much stronger than we thought´.

After checking the tattoo Jordan put on his cloth, he wanted to try out the effect of the rune but it will have to wait, he has to go back to shopping to have enough time to buy the stuff he wants before the spell for return fade from his mind.

Jordan said goodbye to the woman who performed the tattooing and after that, he was led by the butler to the room to which he teleported.

In the room with the teleporting crystal there was already gate cast, through it Jordan could see the moon-platform, Jordan "well… goodbye, for now, I will inform you if I happen to kill any upper-rank angel" the butler "yes do that, be well"

Jordan stepped through the gate and returned to the platform where William and Mary nervously waited and just as he stepped through the gate, they run to him and started asking "are you alright? You look terrible… what did they do to you?" Jordan "I had a power rune done, I will tell you all about it back in camp, now we must go shopping" Jordan took out his paper notebook and started to read "first stop is collecting the coins, second buying, and bestiary…."

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Jordan was overseeing the distribution of coins to the citizens, for now, every one of them around 1000 citizens received only a few coins, right now the coins had an enormous value that will decrease with further distribution of coins but those problems will be solved in the future by increasing the prize of the potions and the weapons that are for sale. With the number of citizens increasing in the future Jordan might buy the coin printing machine to save some crystals.

Together with the coins, Jordan announced the cost of potions and weapons that any citizens can buy, and most importantly the technique to handle mana without a center of power, this technique will be free and mandatory to learn.

All this information is currently on boards around the town plaza, there are also some rules like "forced workers cannot train with weapons or practice magic, punishment will be whipping or when repeated hanging" or "all citizens are to gather every Sunday before the church for mandatory basic training with weapons and basic mana manipulation".

After the coins were distributed a group of several people came to Jordan and said "we would like to exchange for awakening potions" those were the head of various "families" that formed inside the citizens, they received the coins from other and come to buy the potion, strength was everything now and those that understood this made the first step as soon as possible after all Jordan made himself clear, those that prove to be useful will have preferential treatment, some already fallen for this trap and started to abuse the forced workers, well abuse might be a strong word, Jordan made sure that even the forced workers have some rights but no one will probe some bruises or complains about doing all the hard work, the only thing taken very seriously is sexual assault, long-lasting injuries, and murder.

With the rest like occasional beating, the forced workers just have to put up. Once they become free theirs right will become better, and once they become citizens, they might even try to get revenge, well, if they don't cross the law. ´I might need to create a law about duels, well, duels were even till the end of 19 th century so it should not be a problem.´ It might sound self-destructing but the opposite is the truth, Jordan diverts the attention and makes the humans look bad, after all, he set rules that "protect" the forced workers, he is even giving them chance to become free. Meanwhile, Jordan is collecting the negative energy, and if the old citizens got killed or replaced? That's weeding out the weak.

Jordan brought the family heads to the library where few of the complete potions were stored, there were potions to awaken the heart and to awaken the brain. Jordan "once you awaken you will need a technique to progress your mana purity, the techniques will be listed in near future together with tomes on spells, yeah and before I forget, there is chance 1 to 10 that you will die, do you still want to proceed?" all the family head started to look at each other and just nodded at one another, then they looked at Jordan and as one they said "yes!"