Jordan looked at Sunny and walked to him, he took the front leg that he previously dislocated and jerked it in the right direction, Sunny whined but that was all, he knew it was for his good.

Jordan then started to pick the pebbles that were pierced in his body, when he was done with himself Jordan moved on to help the rest of his beasts, it took a while but he has done basic treatment to everyone when he was done Jordan drunk the rest of the beast´s blood he prepared and felt a rush of energy that spread through his body, Jordan sat down on the ground and together with everyone he rested for a while and when everybody could at least walk they went back to the library.

It was already noon when Jordan and all the beasts returned with the corpses of the dead beasts back to the library, everyone was extremely tired so Jordan let them rest and just ordered the 5 beasts that could fly patrol the perimeter.

Even though Jordan was extremely tired as well he fought it against it and first butchered the dead beasts and took all the hearts for himself while leaving the rest of the corpses to his beasts.

Jordan sat down in a corner and munched on a few of the hearts, he was so tired, and yet he couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard he tried ´it looks like being a demon won't be all that great´

After half an hour all Jordan´s wounds closed up and his grazed eye even fully healed. Such regenerative powers were amazing.

With his body and mind rested Jordan got up from the floor and began to inspect the books in the library,

Most of the books will be useless to him such as popular books and so on, he only needs expertise books and maybe books with old legends, even though the legends are mostly fairytales there still could be some that may contain parts of the truth.

For now, Jordan didn't have time to read the legends or even to sort the books so he just threw them be and in time he will try to move them to the first floor of the library to have the ground floor empty to serve as a temporal base.

But gaining the library was just the first step in capturing the fortress, Jordan still has to conquer the rest, which means a museum, gardens, and a big part of the plaza over which the fortress wall goes. And after that, it would be ideal to start fortifying his defense while recruiting more beasts under him.

And it would be ideal to have a stable source of food for them, just from thinking about it Jordan felt dizzy.

Also, he should visit the platform on the moon and check what can he gain there, the old powerful demon said that they can recruit monsters there, maybe he can get some intelligent workers there, that would take some of the burdens from his shoulders, it would be best to get some humans but Jordan just couldn't bring himself to trust them... and it would go both ways, the humans most probably wouldn't trust Jordan either and probably would run away at the first opportunity.

Jordan couldn't help but helplessly sigh ´first I will gather few new beasts and secure myself while visiting the platform at the moon... after that, I will hopefully find some solution´

"that's enough, for now, I should try to rest..." well rest was a strong word, sitting around was just boring so Jordan began to move the books to the first floor, it was light work for him that let his mind rest. And while Jordan moved the books up he also picked some books that could be useful and put them in one of the offices for later study.

It took the rest of the day to move most of the books and shelves to the first floor, afterward, Jordan took the rest of the hearts with him and closed himself in a room.

Meanwhile, the beasts just ate the butchered bodies and laying around resting, for now, Jordan let them but tomorrow he will make sure that they have work.

Throughout the rest of the day Jordan, several times checked on Sunny and sadly it looks like it will take some time before he can move around without problems, Jordan wants him as second in command and plans to either leave him defense or to go outside and do task Jordan gives him.

With Sunny Jordan´s range of activities will increase by several folds, just imagining it made Jordan excited.

In the room that could be office before Jordan looked at the several hearts that were before him. ´Should I eat them all at once and risk puking my guts out or save some for later? By doing that I risk that they will spoil, and the mana may disappear by then, maybe I should give some to the beast under me…´

There were also some hearts he collected on his way to the library, 8 from the beast with no element, and 5 from beasts with an element.

Thinking too much was useless so Jordan started to eat the hearts, first, he started with the ones that came from the non-element beast and halfway through them Jordan still felt fine, deciding to eat them all Jordan continued and when he ate the sixth heart without element he finally began to feel changes in his body.

Jordan ate all the hearts and slowly, warm, dense energy spread itself around his second heart and warmed up his body, the energy made Jordan sweat huge droplets and made him feel extremely energized, Jordan carefully began to analyze it by making move the mana from his second heart and poked the energy.

The energy was much denser than mana and couldn't be manipulated at all, if Jordan wanted it to move, he had to infuse it with mana, and only then could he manipulate it a bit but when he manipulated even small droplets of the energy burning-like feeling came from the place he moved it to and yet surprisingly when he moved it to his wounds they slowly began to heal.

´that's quite nice, if I ate several of those hearts before fights I can effectively heal myself and keep myself energized, sadly it seems that the energy disperses rather fast. If the beast with elements boost mana, shouldn´t those without element boost physical strength? Or is it somehow special due to my body, that is most likely it, if only eating was enough everybody would be at a godlike level by now´

While thinking about how he can use the energy he got an idea if the energy helps to heal his wound and his guess is correct this energy will help him advance his body. Jordan used his mana and picked a minuscule amount of the energy and then mixed it with mana and pushed it to his second heart, the heart absorbed very little of the energy and then send the rest through the conductors that were connected to his second heart through his whole body, as the amount was small Jordan felt an only small tinge in all his muscles but he confirmed his theory.

´Finally, I can´t believe it… first experiment that didn't blow up to my face´

With huge success Jordan plucked carefully drops from the energy accumulated around his second heart and send it to his body, while he did so the energy continued to increase as he digested more of the hearts, it got to the point that Jordan began feeling extremely hot and energized, he was sweating all over and couldn´t even sit still, he was now running in circles inside his room.

With things as they were Jordan just threw away the clothing he was wearing and run outside where he started to train, he did push up, squats, and other physical exercises while still pumping the energy through his second heart to the entirety of his body.

The exercises he did with his body mass were just too easy... so Jordan called Max and spared with him a little but that was useless as well because he had to hold back so that he doesn't hurt Max that was already extremely tired after the battle with Sunny.

With no other options Jordan began to punch walls and after about half an hour when his fist became black with his blood and several walls crumpled, some of the deeper wounds on his body reopened but most of the injuries were already healed, finally, the energy was all used up.

If anyone saw what Jordan did, they would though for sure that he is a batshit crazy, naked man with a crazy smile runs everywhere around fight a beast a when the beast isn't enough, he beats the poor walls.

Now that Jordan calmed down, he returned to his room like nothing ever happened, this will be a secret between him and his beasts.

Back in the room Jordan bandaged his hands and put on the cloth that was thrown all over the room.

It was time for the second round, hopefully, the hearts of elemental beasts will be better. Jordan began to eat them and around the fourth, he once again felt a bit dizzy but still, he finished them all.

Jordan set in his chair and waited for the mana to get absorbed, suddenly sharp pain came from his second heart, Jordan focused and analyzed what was happening, his second heart absorbed all the mana it was storing all the mana from the hearts he was eating and sucked all the mana that was in his surroundings, the second heart went through changes that Jordan couldn't understand.

Jordan felt extreme pain on his forehead, his ears burned, his eyes bled and his teeth felt like they were chewing rocks, his nails also felt like they were burning, it felt similar to his mutation the only difference was that the mutation was much much worse, what he went through now was walk in a park in comparison.