With a swing of his wings, the 4 meters (13 ft) tall angel send several feathers aimed at Jordan, the speed and strength behind the feathers were looked enough to leave deep wounds so Jordan used his upgraded shield spell for the first time since the battle with the angels started.

The shield instantly manifested itself and easily repelled the feathers, seeing the attack easily blocked the angel hesitated for a second.

´oh no, don't tell me he will start to think now, I can't have that´

To agitate the angel Jordan showed the official sign for "fuck you" and lifted his middle finger. "what an idiot".

Clearly, the angel wasn't brightest as he ran at Jordan, kiting the angel, and several of the humans that followed him Jordan isolated them from the main group.

There could be heard shouting from the angels in the main group but the angel chasing Jordan ignored it.

Jordan led the angel with the few awakened humans to an isolated alley while his beasts were slowing down the main part of the group from following, with Jordan there were only a few beasts in the first phase and one in the second phase.

The tall angel spoke with hateful eyes "if you have some balls then face me like a man!"

Jordan readied his ax and let the mana shield move on his back, "sure sure, let's dance big boy"

Jordan swung with the war-axe horizontally at the angel who lightly sidestepped and dodged the attack, before Jordan could prepare another attack the angel stepped up and tried to attack Jordan with his fist.

The speed, the strength, the angel´s body was clearly superior, to evade the attack Jordan had to infuse himself with mana that had the meaning of speed, this enabled him to evade, and yet just as Jordan evaded the angel instantly conjured broadsword from pure light and swung it in a big circle.

Seeing the incoming wide swing Jordan knew he can´t dodge from the range, the only options are ducking or jumping, in the split second, Jordan threw himself on the ground and rolled back.

´it isn't going exactly as I imaginedˇ, Jordan wanted to preserve as much mana as possible, but it looks like it won´t be that easy.

Just as he was rolling on the ground sharp icicle imbued itself in his side, one of the humans that followed the angel here is awakened with a center of power in the second circle. ´not good… I better start trying´.

Upon standing up Jordan immediately infused himself with mana that had the meaning of speed and rushed at the angel while also sending his mana shield against the human that had attacked him.

Neither the angel nor the humans that were sending the spells could predict Jordan´s action and they were both surprised to see his reckless assault.

The human mage got pinned by the shield that was about 1,5 meters (5 ft) in diameter, the shield was pinning the mage chest making it difficult for him to breathe, sadly even in the third circle the shield was unable to kill someone just by ramming, it could seriously injure someone if the shield hit them to the head but Jordan had no time to precisely aim.

The human struggled and tried to free himself but to no avail, his body was in the first rank so he had no chance of escaping, he could try to move the shield with raw mana but this will take too much time, instead he aimed at the demon and send another icicle.

Jordan had his hands full with the angel, the close combat was a mess and he was waiting for an opportunity to use another of his spells to get a chance, so the icicles did not help him at all.

´think THINK! I need space to deal with the angel´ all the beasts he had with him were engaged in combat with the humans and calling them to help will only make them a target that will instantly die.

BUT just as Jordan dodged another attack from the angel he got an idea, Jordan willed it and the shield started to rotate, the shield was made from hexagons all over it so there were many sharp corners, slowly the painful screams of the human could be heard.

"AAGAAG" first it was the cloth, then the skin and lastly the organs of the human mage started to fall out, the mage didn't manage to stop the shield in time and now he was slowly and painfully dying.

It was as if a dull chainsaw was making its way through him, seeing that the angel´s eyes went completely white, the angel screamed "I WILL MAKE YOU SU-" but that was exactly what Jordan waited for, he wanted the angel to open his mouth.

Jordan activated his spell and a stream of black water almost instantly appeared and then disappeared inside the angel´s mouth, filling the lungs.

Before the angel could cough or conjure raw mana to expel the water Jordan snapped his finger, the tainted water in the spell was mixed with mana and on the signal, the mana instantly changed the water into ice.

This was one of the spells Jordan worked on, he considers making the spell explode inside the lungs or instead of water making poisonous gas but both those options were much more troublesome.

Changing the mana to flammable liquid or poison is much more mana expensive than changing it to water, for this reason, he just taints it with his negative energy.

Most important of all is the speed with which the spell could be manipulated so the entry to the lungs is as fast as possible.

Everything went nicely and the spell worked perfectly, but with this Jordan has mana for about 7 spells in the third circle. When he is fully rested he can cast 10 spells in the third circle and about 30 in the second circle but casting the second circle will slow down the recovery of third circle mana as the third circle mana is refined second circle mana.

The angel fell to his knees while holding his throat, the pain in the angel´s eyes could be clearly seen, the pain was so terrible it even pushed away from the hatred the angel felt.

The angel tried to attack with his wings but the attack was half-baked at best, it was clear that the angel cant properly concentrates, with a quick jump Jordan got behind the angel and swung his ax to decapitate the angel.

The ax hit hard and made it halfway through the thick neck of the angel, Jordan said with a smile that never left him.

"wow, you are tough, not even a peep", the angel could not speak or make a sound with the lungs full of ice.

The pain from the lungs and now the neck make the angels almost crazy, despite the injuries he was still alive, that was the might of the angel focused on the body, but before the angel could do anything another quick swing came and this time the decapitation was successful.

The head rolled on the ground and Jordan heavily sighted, this fight was much more difficult than he expected. To be sure Jordan infused himself with the third circle mana for the last swing even though it could cost him another spell of the third circle.

The corpse of the angel produced white vapor and slowly shrunk to the size of 2 meters (6ft 7 in) tall man, even though it was fascinating Jordan didn't have time for it, the main part of the group can come here any second.

Looking around Jordan analyzed the situation, his beasts were losing against the awakened humans but this will change once he joins the battle, and as for the human mage that attacked him… the shield made it halfway through him, looking at the mutilated corpse Jordan couldn't help but wonder about the next upgrade for his shield spell.

Jordan quickly killed the rest of the humans, once they saw the angel died, they tried to escape but this only made it easier for him to kill them off.

With this small fight over Jordan ordered the beasts to retrieve the bodies and haul them to one of the hideouts. Jordan clenched his teeth and pulled out the small icicle from his side, the icicle was stained with black blood, and bits of flesh were frozen to it.

The battle was still far from over but with another angel out of the picture, it started to look better. Still, Jordan couldn't help and thought to himself "hopefully this angel was one of the strongest…."