The Human Giant



Unable to react in time, Tiki and Dreyer could only watch as the illusion they created shattered into a million pieces when Yoze grabbed their collars.

"There you are, come let's go home." 

Seeing that Tiki and Dreyer reappear after he touched them, Yoze couldn't help but be curious about what would have happened if he had accidentally bumped into them.

Realizing that they weren't going to be able to escape today, Tiki and Dreyer surrendered and peacefully went home with Yoze. After making sure that they weren't going to try and escape again Yoze returned to his room  

He tossed the middle-aged man into a corner of his room and trained all night. Once a full 24 hours passed he tossed a talent mark on the rogue immortal cultivator.

[Name: Regen Steel]

[Age: 51 years old]

[Talents: Crystal Nerves (Grade 3), Painter (Grade 5), Rock Collector (Grade 7)]

[Grade 3 Crystal Nerves talent has been locked on. Grade 2 Crystal Nerves talent has been added.]

Yoze felt his head clear up as his thoughts sped up and his intelligence increased by another 20 percent when he copied the middle-aged man's Crystal Nerves talent. After looking at his prisoner's talents and not feeling particularly interested in them Yoze took the middle-aged man and swiftly took his life to save him from any more suffering.

After giving him a proper burial, Yoze returned to the inn and knocked on his father's door. 

"Yoze you finally arrived, we were just about to start eating breakfast." 

"Sorry Dad, I was finishing something."

Seeing his father opening the door with more energy and vigor in his steps Yoze couldn't help but smile. Before his thoughts turned to the fact that he was going to need to find another demon in the next few months to be able to continue providing a stable supply for his father, Jewel, Leah, and now Tiki and Dreyer.

"Next time I must bring a cart with me so I can carry the large demon bodies with me." Making a mental note to himself that only having one ton of demon meat wasn't enough, Yoze planned on preparing for the massive bodies of demons the next time he went hunting.

After shaking his head to clear his thoughts Yoze stepped inside and saw that Jewel, Tiki, and Dreyer were in the middle of a deep conversation. Noticing that he arrived Jewel waved over to Yoze before pointing at the giant breakfast that was on his table. 

Strangely there was a giant slab of cooked demon meat that was double the amount that everyone else had.

"Dad, why did you cook some of the meat for me?" Yoze turned toward his father.

"Don't look at me, Tiki and Dreyer cooked this for you since you've been helping them so much." Drew looked at Tiki and Dreyer with pride as he felt that everyone was starting to get along.

"I see, " Noticing Jewel's curious eyes, Yoze wanted to see what kind of trick they were going to pull.

After finishing his breakfast and eating the whole slab of meat, Yoze felt a bit drowsy but it disappeared in a flash after his Life Attraction talent prevented him from losing unnecessary amounts of energy and kept him energized. 

Once he had eaten everything, Yoze walked over to Tiki and Dreyer to ask them a few questions about immortal cultivation and witchcraft. After witnessing that battle he didn't want to wait for a better rogue immortal cultivator with better talent to arrive at his doorstep and instead planned to start early.

"Tiki, can I see the book that you received to cultivate? Dreyer, can you teach me more about witchcraft?" Making his request clear Yoze saw the shocked looks on their face.

"I can't give you the book since I no longer have it. I destroyed it long ago after I memorized the whole thing." Tiki said, taking another bite of her breakfast.

"Is it common to destroy books after someone memorized them?" Yoze remembered how he couldn't find the rogue immortal cultivator's book and wondered if it was due to the same reason.

"Yes, it's quite common since to cultivate properly one has to complete the process in one go. If you had to stop and reread the book then you would never be able to improve. So it has become a sort of tradition to destroy the books after you have memorized the book in its entirety." 

"But it doesn't matter if I don't have the book. Unless you also have crystal nerves then it's all for nothing. Why are you asking for it?" Tiki said curiously about why Yoze was asking her about her immortal cultivation book. 

"I have Crystal Nerves but I don't have a way to cultivate them," Yoze explained.

"You have Crystal Nerves? How do you know?"  Tiki and Dreyer looked at each other with surprise. It was rare to find people who know they have Crystal Nerves but aren't on the path to becoming immortal.

"Just a feeling but I'm 100 percent certain," Yoze shrugged as he didn't know how to explain his cheat to acquire talents.

"That's fine, I can just act as your teacher to help you to cut out the unnecessary time figuring out the complexity of immortal cultivation." Even though she didn't understand why Yoze was so sure he had Crystal Nerves she wasn't opposed to teaching him.

"It's good that you have crystal nerves but if you are alive and well that means you can't practice witchcraft since it requires dead Crystal Nerves," Dreyer said.

"That makes sense why the system showed that one of Dreyer's talents is a grade 2 Dead Crystal Nerves talent." Yoze nodded his head as he remembered the surprise he felt when he looked at Dreyer's profile.

[Name: Dreyer Thunder]

[Age: 30 years old]

[Talents: Dead Crystal Nerves (Grade 2), Witchcraft (Grade 3), Gardening (Grade 4)]

When Yoze saw that Dreyer's Crystal nerves were being displayed differently compared to regular Crystal Nerves and how he felt another set of Crystal Nerves were being created in his body he wondered about the differences between the two.

But hearing Dreyer's answer Yoze had the realization that the reason was that a witch had to use their Crystal Nerves differently compared to Crystal Nerves so they classified it as a separate talent.

"That shouldn't be a problem either since I also have dead Crystal Nerves," Yoze said with confidence.

But from the looks on Tiki's and Dreyer's faces, they didn't believe him for a second. They even began to doubt Yoze's claim that he had Crystal Nerves. 

Because it was common knowledge that a person could only have one set of Crystal Nerves similar to how every human has one nervous system. One could have either normal Crystal Nerves or dead Crystal Nerves but never at the same time.