Jordan crawled from one dead rat to another while ripping out their hearts and eating stuffing them inside his mouth, the energy started to gather around Jordan´s second heart, Jordan used a bit of his mana to fuse with the energy and send it to his tired body, the energy started to work on Jordan´s ripped muscles while also repairing many of the cuts and small fractures that were all over his body.

Jordan was eating his tenth heart and still didn't have enough, no matter how many hearts he has eaten his body wanted more and more, in fact, the more he ate the more his body wanted.

Jordan body recovered enough to be usable again and yet Jordan was running from one big rat to another, with his sharp claws it was no problem for him to rip the hearts out and with his sharp teeth, it took only a few bites to completely devour the hearts and suddenly vapor stared to appear from Jordan´s body.

It looks like an increase in rank is happening right now to Jordan, normally there is no grand change when someone increases their body strength but Jordan reached the rank of the body that his demon species normally gets from its species talent when it fully matures. Well, Jordan´s center of power was still one rank from being mature because of the unique characteristic of earth.

Pain once again overcome Jordan as he fell down on his knees and a growl escaped from his mouth "AARGHH" One thing was more intense than the pain and that was the hunger that overcame Jordan but this time it wasn't hunger for mana but meat, bones, tendons and even organs such as brains.

With the corpses everywhere around Jordan thrown himself at the big rat that was near him and began to eat, he ate its fur, cracked and crushed its bones while devouring them, and even cracked its head to eat its brain, Jordan ate and his body was telling him what it needs, he got a taste for bones than for organs than for bones once again, Jordan ate like crazy and didn't even notice how his cloth that remained after the battle ripped.

After a while Jordan stopped, his hunger finally satisfied, Jordan looked around and saw how he completely devoured several big rats yet he had no clue how all of the meat fitted to his stomach, Jordan got on his legs and felt the new power cruising through his body, he clenched his fist and punched a wall, "bam", with a moderate bang there appeared several cracks in the wall while Jordan´s hand was completely fine.

Jordan was tired but satisfied, every increase in power counts, Jordan sat down on the ground and quickly scanned his body with his mana to see how he changed, after a quick scan Jordan noticed few things, first, his body accepted his mana much better than before and it was very smooth to move the mana around his body.

Secondly, Jordan´s brain was now even more grown to his spine and Jordan could tell that while the spine and all his bones were now almost like metal, Jordan felt that he can now stand even heavy hits to his head while keeping his consciousness, third was the body´s strength that got directly to the middle of the third rank, fourth and last thing he noticed while scanning were his regenerative abilities, even before he could heal his cooked hand in a day but now with enough nutrients, Jordan was confident even in re-growing his limbs.

When was Jordan done with the scan he stood up and went for his war ax, even though he hated it he has still work to do.

While picking the war-axe Jordan became quite confused and surprised "why does the ax look smaller?" but not only the ax even the dead tired beasts that warily looked at Jordan looked smaller.

Jordan looked down on his feet and only then realized that there were his toes that ripped through his boots and were looking at him, he quickly used the hammer as a ruler and tried to guess how tall he is right now and he came to the conclusion that he is now about 2,4 meter tall, he grew about 40 centimeters (18 inches), Jordan was tall even before but now he was looking like a giant, with his well-defined muscles he looked very intimidating.

Jordan ´whatever, I don't have time for that´, Jordan called a few of the rats that he tamed when only a few of the rats reminded, those rats were quite lucky that they survived, together with them he went back to the library while leaving the surviving beasts to rest, from the 30 phases 1 beast only 10 survived, 2 from the 4 phase two beasts and one of the goblin warriors also died, surprisingly all the cat beasts survived as they were very agile and could move around or hide behind others freely.

Jordan got back to the library and ordered the goblin workers to haul all the dead beasts back here then he picked about twenty beasts of the first rank and Max that was in the second rank, he also picked an empty backpack and went to the tamed rats and used a bit of mana channeled to his horns "lead me to every nest you know of"

Just like that continued one of the most exhausting days of Jordan´s life, Jordan was going through all the servers in the town.

He kept killing most of the rats and only kept the big ones or those that mutated into ratmans alive and tamed them to keep them under his control, most of the nest were without any big thread and only the mothers were a problem so it went relatively quickly.

Jordan put any centers of power that were worth mentioning to his backpack while leaving most of the corpses behind, there were just too many of them and he already had a pile of corpses in the alley.

While fighting those rats Jordan noticed one thing and that was the perception of time, when he fought, things around him turned just the smallest bit slower, it looks like all the changes couldn't be discovered by scanning his body.

It was already close to noon when Jordan returned to the library to which the workers were hauling the dead rats in wheelbarrows, they were already at it for several hours but the piles on the battlefield still proudly stood and showed how intense the battle was.

Jordan dragged his tired body to his room and laid on the ground, "I want to sleep so badly…"

No matter how much Jordan wished for it the sleep was already forbidden for him.

In the end, Jordan came back with about 30 ratmans and 50 big rats, the ratmans were weak but could be probably used for simple tasks, the big rats were around the middle of the first phase and rank of the body so they were quite weak as well, their biggest strength was how quickly they reproduced and how little they valued their lives.

As Jordan was laying on the ground, he spoke to himself "I can forget about visiting the other demon camp tonight…"