The Human Giant



"I see your point but from my perspective, martial arts require the same level of talent as immortal cultivation and are just as time-consuming. However, It wouldn't be bad to at least practice some martial arts to get better physical abilities." Tiki thoughtfully said.

She could see Yoze's point of view of how she and Dreyer lacked certain capabilities that martial arts could fill. However, she also knew how important it was for her to continue her cultivation too as not only was it her core strength but it also was helping keep her body young.

Tiki didn't know how gifted she and Dreyer could be in martial arts and it felt that there was a good possibility that they were not talented enough to become even third-rate martial artists. In her point of view, martial arts would only ever act as a supplementary addition to her arsenal, she would still place a majority of her focus on her immortal cultivation.

"That's all I'm asking for, you don't need to put too much time into training your martial arts and you can just focus on a martial arts technique and body cultivation method that suits your needs." Yoze smiled seeing that Tiki at least understood his point of view.

"Since Tiki is fine with it, then it wouldn't be the worst thing to do. I probably need it even more than she does." Dreyer wasn't a stubborn person and could see that ever since Tiki had gotten a boost in her intelligence she felt Yoze's ideas were more compelling.

If she felt that Yoze's ideas were compelling then there wasn't much reason for him to continue to deny it. Even though he still had his doubts about the authenticity of the demon meat, Dreyer felt that practicing martial arts would be a good thing for him as well.

"That's great, the martial arts could be confusing if you are just starting so I can act as your teacher to help you get started," Yoze sincerely offers his services.

"That's great," Both Tiki and Dreyer agreed that having Yoze as their martial arts teacher would be a good idea for them.

"Perfect, we will begin training next week so you can prepare yourselves mentally," Yoze said while making a note to himself to visit New Swampscott City's Martial Courtyard to get additional talent in teaching martial arts.

After settling their dispute everyone felt the air become less tense and they all enjoyed each other's company. Since Tiki and Dreyer had made their decision to practice martial arts they were excited to ask Jewel questions about her first martial arts training experience. 

After an hour, they were able to get all the bags of demon meat inside and prepared them so they could last for months without rotting. Everyone could smell the delicious smell of cooked demon meat and many other delicious foods coming from the kitchen and couldn't wait to eat.

"After a long day of travel and work, you and Jewel must be hungry so make sure to eat till you are full," Drew said as he put down the last plate of demon meat mixed with veggies and spices on the table.

He had prepared enough meat to feed everyone until they were full even with Yoze at the table there was enough food to make him satisfied. After setting down the last plate and seeing that everyone else was beginning to eat, Drew started eating his meal with haste as he appreciated the delicious demon meat. 

Feeling the familiar sensation of warmth filling his belly as his mind seemed to become a little clearer with each bite. Drew wanted to sigh from satisfaction and knew that his son had once again done something that humans have considered impossible.

As Drew, Jewel, Tiki, Dreyer, and of course, Leah ate their dinner, Yoze secretly observed their spiritual energies and took note of how their spiritual energies were changing from absorbing the Leopard demon's spiritual energy. Looking at his father's spiritual energy made Yoze the happiest as he could see that his plan of using demon meat to extend his father's life was working.

After eating demon meat for so long his father's green flame spiritual energy stood up for itself and recovered about 20 percent of the spiritual energy that had been corroded by the Death spiritual energy surrounding it. Yoze also predicted that his father could now live a year even without taking the medicine that Leah had been creating to extend his life.

Turning his attention to Jewel, Yoze saw that her orange cloud of spiritual energy had nearly doubled in size ever since she started eating demon meat. He knew that the reason she had such a dramatic increase compared to his father was that her spiritual energy wasn't facing the constant corrosion of Death spiritual energy and could simply grow unhindered.

Turning his attention, Yoze noted that Tiki's green spiritual energy that took the shape of a halo had similarly shown amazing growth but to a much lesser extent compared to Jewel's. Dreyer's spiritual energy was in the same situation as Tiki's but replaced the green color with blue and took the shape of a flame.

However, the spiritual energy that interested Yoze by far was what was occurring with Leah. Having absorbed three different types of demon spiritual energy, Leah's spiritual energy that took in the form of red gas was still the same except it had nearly tripled in size. 

Leah had also experienced physical changes as his body had nearly doubled in size and occasionally had a strong aura similar to a weak newborn demon.

"Just from Leah's aura alone, he has to be close to a second-rate martial artist." Yoze thought to himself and felt that he should also try and unearth Leah's hidden talents.

He had a hypothesis in the past that Leah and demons had some connection with each other since both of their spiritual energies affected their bodies. To this day Yoze had never found another person or animal whose spiritual energy wrapped around their body like Leah's spiritual energy.

The closest thing that he had found to this phenomenon was the spiritual armor that demons are capable of generating. The only difference was that Leah's spiritual energy didn't seem to offer any of the protection of spiritual armor ideally brought.

Ever since Yoze noticed that people needed to have awareness of their talents for him to copy them, he wanted to see if he could awaken those hidden talents by helping people become aware of them. The first step of his plan was to see if he could help Tiki and Dreyer awaken their hidden talent in some kind of martial art and see how aware did his target have to be about their talents to be shown to him.

The next part of his plan was to see if he could get them to awaken some type of spiritual energy talent. However, he was less confident since he didn't even know how to start to make them aware of their spiritual energy.

So Yoze planned on focusing on just martial arts before adding spiritual energy later on. As for now, he planned to head to the martial courtyard to acquire some talents related to teaching martial arts.