The Human Giant



Yoze shook his head to get rid of his unnecessary thoughts. He didn't even get rid of the Blood Armor Sect's leader so how was it going to collapse due to losing a few Blood Masters? 

Even though it was six against one, Yoze had gotten a good sense of how strong a Blood Master was and he was pleased by the fact that his physical prowess had grown by 100x. Each one of those Blood Masters could have easily killed him from three months ago ten times over with just their pressure alone.

To be able to fight against all six Blood Masters and come out on top was mostly due to the spiritual talents he acquired these past months and absorbing so much of the Serpent demon's life spiritual energy.

"The claws that I can create with my spiritual energy are fantastic weapons." Yoze looked at his hands and with a thought, he controlled green spiritual energy to form razor-sharp claws invisible to the naked eye.

"Why can't I do the same with the Three-headed Fox spiritual energy?" Yoze pondered as he tried to make the same sharp claws but found that it was much harder to accomplish and these claws weren't as sharp. 

They even faded in and out of visibility in his Spiritual Senses so it was nearly impossible to tell that these claws existed. 

"These could be good sneak attack weapons against demons or other creatures that can sense spiritual energy." 

Yoze stopped playing around with his spiritual claws and continued to walk back to New Swamp in a slow manner. The battle inside the Blood Armor Sect encampment didn't last long but he had gotten very clear injuries during the battle.

Luckily, Yoze's healing speed seemed to have also been sped up so that even the deep sword wounds on his body were visibly healing. As to not worry his father, he has been deliberately walking slowly and testing out basic techniques in the Blood Swordsman martial art set.

Now that his wounds have mostly all healed he just walked to the entrance leading to New Swamp town. Since New Swamp was so large it took some time for Yoze who was walking around the town to reach the other side.

By the time Yoze reached the gate to New Swamp was as loud and busy as ever as the line into the town extended quite far. His eyes immediately shifted to a certain carriage and wagon as he saw Jewel, his father, and Leah all outside standing in the cold.

"Yoze, where have you been? We have been looking for you all day." Drew felt his stress melt away when he saw his son walking toward them.

"I was going for a walk around the town to check out the road we will be taking to New Swampscott city." 

Due to the sun having set and relying on the torches to light up the area, Drew hadn't noticed that Yoze's clothes were stained red.  

"Have you eaten dinner yet?"  Drew asked as he headed to their campfire to cook.

"Dad, it's a bit late to start cooking. I'll just eat some jerky and head to bed. We have a busy day ahead of us tomorrow morning." Not wanting to be exposed and having to explain his risk to destroy a gang, Yoze decided to skip eating dinner and tried to suggest to everyone that they should go to sleep.

"In that case, I'll turn in early." Drew knew when his son wanted to hide something from him and decided that it would be better to just sleep because his son did not want to worry him.

"Good night,"

The next day, Yoze and the group were woken up by the sound of shocked voices as news spread like wildfire. There were rumors that a demon had shown up in the area and called the town for quick action. Others called for an investigation to be carried out by the town government. And there were even calls that local gangs had gotten too ballsy and were dealt with by the city.

All these rumors and calls for action came about when a story broke out that there was a deserted encampment on the main road leading to New Swampscott. And inside this encampment were the corpses of dozens of men dressed as gang members and from the details of the bodies it was found out that all died at a similar time yesterday.

The people that weren't in the know of why this encampment appeared on the main road all figured that it could only have been done by the hands of a demon. Even some of the corpses of the gang members were torn to shreds by weapons that looked like claws.

The people who were aware of the roadblock created by the rising Radiant gang all praised the New Swamp town for getting rid of the nuance so quickly and decisively.

The calls for an investigation of the town came from people who felt that this issue was dealt with too quickly and that this was organized by corrupt government officials. Once they couldn't stop New Swampscott City from getting involved they scrapped the plan.

There was even a subset of people who realized that those gang members came from the Blood Armor Sect. It was said that this martial art sect was rising through the ranks and was becoming ambitious.

To see that within a single day of causing trouble all their elites and Blood Masters were dead made it so that many thought that New Swampscott City was using this incident to remind the other martial art sects that there was a reason why the Charred Martial Art Sect didn't dare cause trouble.

As for the Blood Armor Sect's future, it was over for them. They had lost over 80 percent of their strength in a single night and would never be able to recover. The Blood Armor Sect leader could only count his blessings that the City wasn't ruthless enough to kill him and his family after their major loss.

This shocking news had blown out of proportion and reached the ears of New Swamps officials and they had to plan their response to these claims. As for the culprit of the whole debacle, he was standing beside a woman who looked at him with suspicious eyes.