The Human Giant



With his desire to solve the mysteries of this world growing Yoze had many more questions that he wanted to try and find the answers to but he suddenly felt a light tap on his shoulders attracting his attention. Standing behind was the pair of Blood Master siblings, gloomy Timothy and talented River

"Is there something you need from me?" Yoze asked curious about what they needed from him.

"Scholar Yoze, we wanted to ask you for permission to allow us to speak of what happened today with the city?" Timothy asked with the same gloomy voice Yoze had become used to.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Such as allowing the city to use your name as propaganda to attract talented folks into their fold. The city will reward you for your support, of course." Timothy explained.

"I would prefer if my name is not used by the city but I'm fine with you telling everything else." 

After thinking about it for a bit, Yoze eventually decided to not have his name sung praises about. Even though he didn't care about being low key he didn't want to attract any unwanted attention from people.

"That's fine but we have another request. Is it possible to hire you to kill demons?" 

"That's fine but I want to get the final say about whether I take the case or not." Yoze's eyes glowed as he accepted the offer. If he could get the city to investigate and find demons for him then he wouldn't have to worry about finding demons on his own.

After asking their last request, Timothy and River left as they needed to still add a few ingredients to the Elephant demon soup that was being prepared. Once the mass burial ceremony was completed everyone went to the entrance of the town where several giant pots of soup were being served. 

The smell coming from the pots smelled heavenly and made everyone take another sniff of the warm air. It didn't take long for every last person to get a bowl filled to the brim with soup and demon meat.

Yoze felt his mood become lighter seeing the looks of joy coming from the Rockbell villager's faces. He watched as the spiritual energy that was trapped inside the Elephant demon's flesh was devoured by the villager's spiritual energy.

"Everyone we have a long journey to tomorrow so make sure you eat as much as you can to regain your strength. Don't hold back as we have plenty of meat and ingredients that we need to eat tonight." 

Yoze turned toward the piles of meat that were waiting to be cooked and wondered whether everyone had the stomach to eat 50 tons of meat. Luckily, he didn't have to worry about having too much as all of the food that remained was eaten by him and the Blood Masters who had larger appetites.

The next day they set off back to New Swampscott City. With Rockbell Village in ruin, there was no longer a need to host the Scholar Examination here so they returned. 

However, they were now traveling with a whole village so the trip back had become much slower.

When Yoze traveled with 11 people it had taken them 10 days to arrive at Rockbell 

Now traveling with more than 5000 people would have taken forever and that is assuming they had enough food to last them the whole trip with so many people. 

While they had enough food to feed themselves and the villagers for 2 weeks it wasn't enough to truly make it back to the city. So to solve this they sent one of the soldiers ahead to get to the city to meet them halfway with an escort group.

Even then with them only needing to travel halfway, it took more than 20 days for them to arrive at the spot where they were going to meet the escort service and hand them over. With a ton of demon meat in his hands, Yoze decided to leave the escort group when they first met and travel back himself since he was faster. 

He was able to make it back in 2 days after traveling non-stop. When he got back home he saw that Jewel and his father were waiting for him.

"Yoze your back I'm glad you came back safely. I heard that a village had been destroyed by a demon. Did you encounter it?" Drew looked at his son with relief but seeing his armor crushed and stained red with blood made him think of the recent news reports.

"Yeah, Dad, my group encountered the demon but we were able to kill it. I even brought a lot of demon meat for you and Jewel to eat." Yoze placed the meat in his father's kitchen.

"Good, I'll go start cooking so you two catch up." Drew looked at the stacks of demon meat and couldn't stop his mouth from watering remembering what the demon serpent flesh tasted like.

Yoze turned his attention to Jewel and saw on her face that she wasn't particularly happy about being left out of such a major event. Once his father left, Jewel looked at Yoze with suspicion and entered a fighting stance showing off the faint green Inner Vigor above her skin.

"I thought this was just a trip to do the Scholar Examination. Why did it turn into a fight against demons?" 

"For starters, I didn't know that this would happen or I would have done a couple of things differently. Why would I leave you and my Dad out of the huge amount of demon meat?" Yoze tried to explain.

Jewel shook her head as if she thought it was a simple answer, "Because we have tasted demon meat before and could have caught you in your lies about killing the demon." 

"As for how you planned it out without anyone knowing is anyone's guess but that is not what is important. What is important is that I'm going to be stuck to you like glue until you accept me as your student and make me live forever."