The Human Giant



Looking at the trembling Elephant demon at his feet and the pillars of black smoke rising from the destroyed village, Yoze made his decision. Lifting his hand Yoze sent a chain of Blood Koi fingers at the Elephant demon's head.

It took a while before Yoze was able to break open its skull and destroy its brain but once he did he felt satisfied. He might have not gotten the Elephant demon's Spiritual manipulation talent but he couldn't take the risk of the Elephant demon trying to make a counterattack in his current state.

With his right shoulder and arm still needing time to reconnect and his broken bones, Yoze was lucky to be alive. If it wasn't for his Life Attraction talent and various other things that made him hard to kill he would have died from the Elephant demon's last charge.

"There is no way I can carry this back to the village, much less carry this back to the city to give to Dad." Staring at the demon corpse that weighed over 100 tons Yoze decided it was better to get some help.

After leaving the forest and returning to the village, Yoze saw that it was mostly evacuated and only a few Blood Masters remained. When he got closer he saw that out of the 10 Blood Masters, only Timothy and River stayed behind to wait for Yoze while everyone else had left.

"Timothy, River, can you come help me move the Elephant demon's corpse so we can eat it." Yoze felt fatigued as he was still recovering and could only pass the request to them.

"You mean you managed to kill the Elephant demon?" Timothy and River looked at each other with shock before launching question after question to Yoze.

Since he knew this was an amazing feat, Yoze explained the whole battle to them and even told them about the spiritual energy battle that raged in his body. He only changed the terms to make it more believable.

"Scholar Yoze, so you're saying that all demons can launch mental attacks. Which is why we couldn't move at all earlier?" Timothy asked with a realization on his face.

"Yes, it was because the Elephant demon launched all its mental energy at me. That allowed me to stun it so that I could kill the Elephant demon. I can explain this in more detail later. Right now we need to deal with the corpses." Yoze looked at the destruction and felt that before they did anything the people of Rockbell Village deserved a proper burial.

"Of course, I'll go get the others so we can do a mass burial ceremony." River understood Yoze's thoughts and took responsibility to get it done.

As for Timothy, he followed Yoze to the Elephant demon's corpse and marveled at the sight. After which, Timothy with the help of Yoze stripped the flesh of the elephant demon.

Half of the meat was sent to the village to be cooked and the other half was dried so it could sustain a trip of sending 5000 people to New Swampscott City. When the people of Rockbell Village heard that the monster that had been massacring their friends and family was killed they couldn't believe it until they saw its corpse.

The people all felt that it was a bittersweet victory but felt happy they had gotten revenge. Especially when they heard that Yoze was giving them half of the meat to eat and throwing a mass burial ceremony for all the people that had lost their lives that day, they cried tears of joy as they thanked Yoze.

By the time they were able to bury everyone who died, the sky was dark and the night sky was filled with bright stars. Every person stood up and silently prayed for the people's souls to rest in eternal peace.

As Yoze prayed he felt conflicted. He saw that the Elephant demon had eaten the people's spiritual energy. But he wasn't sure if spirit energy was related to one's soul. 

He knew that spiritual energy was linked to one's mind and life but he didn't understand how they connected. There were many things Yoze didn't understand about spiritual energy and his questions flooded his mind.

Why does Death Spiritual Energy not appear when someone is killed? 

He had only encountered Death Spiritual Energy twice; the first was from his father dying from age and the second was from the destruction of Emerald Town. However, Yoze had seen many people die and their spiritual energy either disintegrated upon their deaths or their spiritual energy was absorbed. 

But both of these situations did not lead to the appearance of the corrosive Death Spiritual Energy. The longer Yoze had his spiritual sensing talent the more he noticed the strangeness of spiritual energy.

There were all sorts of different types of spiritual energy and Yoze only had some understanding of two of them, Death Spiritual Energy and Life Spiritual Energy. These were the two spiritual energies that he could sense even when his talent was much lower. 

If he excluded those two he would still have plenty of questions. Like would someone's spiritual energy be absorbed be the same thing as that person losing their soul? Or was it similar to what happened to the Elephant demon where they would just be in a coma state or maybe even still act normal?

Yoze felt his mind fill with questions about spiritual energy before he suddenly thought of another energy he never thought to question, Inner Vigor. What exactly was Inner Vigor? 

He was only told that it was a special energy that appeared when the body was under extreme pressure and certain circumstances. Yoze couldn't help but question why Inner Vigor has different attributes. 

If it was a type of energy that was held inside everyone's bodies why doesn't everyone have the same type? If all Inner Vigor was the same but took on different attributes based on different methods couldn't one have every single type of Inner Vigor in the world as long as they knew the method?

Countless questions about the world that he lived in, circled through Yoze's mind. He wanted to learn about this world and its mysteries but everything seemed to be shrouded and concealed in a fog. He couldn't gather this information through normal means and most likely find out secrets that he wasn't supposed to know.

The more he learned the more terrified Yoze became at how dangerous this world was. The more terrified he felt the more he wanted to protect his family and his desire for power grew.  

From the demons that Yoze planned on hunting to the mysterious immortals, strange animals, witches, martial artists, and even the cities themselves had secrets that Yoze desired to understand.