Negative energy

Jordan was walking down the streets of Centerville, everywhere around him were forced workers taking down houses for material, building walls, or just repairing the damaged houses, and of course, there were goblins, beasts, and the citizens patrolling around making sure everyone is doing their job.

Every time Jordan walked around someone from Centerville would look down and try to avoid him at all cost.

Just like in their base in the Hazelton Jordan decided on two walls around the town, first will be the inner ring around the town´s square that will be for citizens and then the outer ring in which will be residing the free humans and forced workers.

After a bit of walking Jordan found an ideal spot, he sits on a chair in a nearby coffee shop and began to concentrate, from the surroundings he attracted all the negative energy and began to compact it into a negative energy mana crystal.

The process itself wasn't hard as Jordan was already quite proficient, the hard part was to resist the temptation to absorb all the energy at once, by doing so Jordan believed that he would be able to immediately progress into the fourth phase of his demonization but by doing so at once would most likely drastically alter his personality and Jordan wasn't willing to risk that.

It took about ten minutes until Jordan made two black crystals from the fourth circle mana and all the negative energy that Jordan could collect from the area.

´one crystal done and plenty more to do´ with all the death in the town Jordan will have quite the harvest, enough for himself and even for William.

Jordan went around the town and kept collecting the mana crystals filled with negative energy and after collecting all the negative energy he could find Jordan looked a bit for an empty house and settled there.

It was a family house with two floors, Jordan searched the house and in the end, he managed to find two beers hidden behind the bridge, Jordan took them and sat on the couch with all the negative crystals spread before him.

"Time for the real deal" the negative energy was very tricky for Jordan, on one side he needed it to become stronger and he himself fed on it but on the other side the negative energy corrupted his already a bit changed personality.

It was only because Jordan was a very rational person that could accurately observe any change about himself, if it wasn't for that he would be probably acting like a different person.

Very slowly Jordan began absorbing the energy from one of the crystals, his body felt warm and cozy, he felt that everything will be fine and that he is on top and everyone else is a worthless underling.

Feeling that the emotions are too strong Jordan slowed the absorption and began to regulate the speed of absorption until the feelings from the negative energy became manageable.

Without regulation, it would be very easy to become addicted to the feelings of the negative energy, in fact for demons the negative energy was like heavy drugs except that the negative energy strengthened them.

The sun was setting and Jordan was absorbing his third crystal when he felt a change, all the negative energy in his body was crazily moving around in every corner of his body. He could feel the negative energy seeping into his organs, bones and even his center of power.

Black cracks formed on Jordan´s grey skin, it was like veins or webs made off coal, those webs spread all over until Jordan was covered with those cracks, after that the energy continued to strengthen or slightly change parts of his body until about 30 min later and then the transformation stopped.

Jordan stood up and tried to get used to the changes in his body, his claws strengthened, his horns got darker, overall, all his demon characteristics got strengthened, including his senses.

But the most notable change were the black webs covering his skin, all those cracks were connected to his center of power through the conductors of his second heart and those black cracks were attracting mana like crazy.

In fact, the cracks in his skin attracted and absorbed so much mana to his center of power that Jordan would be hard pressed to spend the first circle mana as fast as it was regenerating. Overall, Jordan was expecting that the regeneration of his fourth circle mana would be twice as fast which means that he should be able to fully regenerate all his mana in 3 hours top. Truly a tremendous increase.

And that wasn't all, Jordan could feel change in his transforming ability. Jordan examined the ability in his second heart and the imaginary switch and after bit of probing Jordan was confident in understanding of it and slowly activated it.

Almost instantly Jordan´s left hand began to swell and then transformed, the armor like skin turned black and solid, same for the claws, while the flesh seemed to disappear and in its place was the blue mana that looked like it´s trapped and might explode out of the black armor at any moment.

Jordan´s hearts were wildly beating as he observed the change in his left arm, the transformation was stable and the power he could exert was probably around twice as much than what he had normally.

Excited Jordan began to analyze his arm, the durability of the armor, sharpness of the claws, and his control over the mana that was radiating from it. Jordan tried to use the mana just like he does with his ability to infuse his limbs with mana and he discovered one interesting thing.

Jordan changed the mana in his left arm from pure mana to fire mana and his whole left arm began changed into a huge torch with crimson fire all over it and inside of it, now his whole left arm looked like scorching flames trapped in black armor.

And strangely enough the fires didn't hurt Jordan, but they did drain his mana like crazy. It was time for the final experiment, Jordan switched the imaginary switch and ended the transformation. His arm began to transform back in, but it didn't go all that well, blood and flesh flew everywhere until the hand somehow roughly returned back to its original shape.

The left arm was slightly deformed and pieces were missing here and there but nothing his regeneration couldn't handle, overall Jordan was more than satisfied.