The Human Giant



Once Yoze's body cooled down to a normal temperature, he and Leah went over to his father's room to discuss the arrangements.

"Yoze, what's the matter? Are you feeling hungry?" Drew asked.

"Hi Dad, I just wanted to talk to Tiki and Dreyer about starting their training in martial arts and some other stuff," Yoze said.

"Alright then, they are in their rooms. Come in and get them, I'm going to go take a nap." Drew yawned to show how tired he was and went back inside to sleep.

"Goodnight," 

Knowing how old his father was getting, Yoze didn't say anything except to wish him a good nap. Walking toward Tiki and Dreyer who were both together, he opened the door to find that both of them were in the middle of absorbing crystals.

Hearing the door open, Dreyer stopped absorbing the purple crystal in his hands and looked at who arrived. When he saw that it was Yoze he nodded his head before he took a look at Tiki who was deeply immersed in her cultivation training.

Dreyer looked at the crystal in his hand being 50 percent absorbed versus the dark blue crystal in Tiki's hands that was nearly absorbed. They had started with similar talents but the rate at which they absorbed crystals was not close at all.

A weary smile grew on his face as he knew that the gap between their absorption speed was only going to continue growing in the future. Even though they have similar talent grades with Tiki's crystal nerves and his dead crystal nerves.

Their cultivation speed was similar at the beginning but it all started changing when Tiki created her first crystal nerves. And when she had reached the first level of nerve Accumulation. 

That day was when Tiki saw her crystal absorbing speed increase by nearly double, while his crystal absorbing speed stayed the same. The main reason was that the extra set of crystal nerves helped her absorb crystals faster.

And her crystal absorbing speed once again got boosted after she completed her third crystal nerves set. Even though she was absorbing crystals faster it didn't mean her cultivation speed also increased.

Instead with her increased number of crystal nerves she needed more crystal energy to navigate around all her nerves when creating another set of crystal nerves. Meaning that she needed to absorb more crystals alongside her increased crystal-absorbing speed.

As a witch, Dreyer didn't get the leisure to have a cultivation system created by the past generations. So he had no standard measurement for where he stood in witchcraft except for the common definition of skills.

At the moment he considered himself a novice witch which meant he had low proficiency in even basic witchcraft. His Potato soldiers and Blood Plant soldiers were considered to be basic witchcraft and he had a few more witchcraft techniques that were also basic.

Above Novice, the ranks for witches went like this, Cursed Witch, Titled Witch, Grand Witch, Disaster Witch, and Immortal Witch. Each rank was considered much stronger than the last but how one determined which rank they belonged was either by asking a fellow witch or meeting the widely considered basic requirements.

For example, anyone can be considered a Novice Witch if they are capable of using at least one basic witchcraft technique. Even if one had low proficiency in using that basic witchcraft technique or extremely high proficiency they would still be in the Novice rank.

To be upgraded to a Cursed Witch one needed to be able to use a curse technique. Curses were the next level of witchcraft and were much more difficult to perform and much harder for anyone to get their hands on one. 

Taking himself as an example, Dreyer would never be able to become a Cursed Witch because he didn't know any curses. He either has to risk his life trying to create one or find some way to gain a curse spell from somewhere.

Above a Cursed Witch was a Titled Witch, and these witches are known for the excellent usage of basic witchcraft and curses. But what made them different was that they were so good at particular witchcraft that they gained a title from the witch community.

The titles a witch could gain were endless but difficult to get. For example, there was a witch known as the Blood Witch because her Blood witchcraft was top-notch. But there was already a titled Blood Witch so to gain control of the title the Blood Witch killed the previous Blood Witch using Blood witchcraft.

She also made the previous Blood witch's death public for all to see so she could claim the title for herself. There were many stories of witches killing other witches to claim their titles which made Dreyer's heart covered in fear at the thought of how evil and brutal Titled Witches could be.

After Titled Witches, the requirements for advancement became so vague and mysterious that he didn't know about them. All he knew was that Grand Witches were stronger than Titled Witches, Disaster Witches crushed Grand Witches, and no one stood a chance against Immortal Witches.

"With my talent alone it's going to take me years, maybe decades to even become a Cursed Witch so I can ignore the higher ranks."

"So Yoze and Tiki are right that practicing martial arts and making my body stronger will only do me some good." 

After calming down and having a lot of time to think for himself, Dreyer had grown to be thankful for Yoze's suggestion of teaching him martial arts. He had gotten cocky at his status as a witch to think that martial arts were a waste of time.

But that could not be further from the truth since he was a witch and didn't receive any body-strengthening methods; he was always going to be a glass cannon. He could have an army of plant soldiers but still be killed by a first-rate martial artist because they launched a sneak attack.

However, if he could learn martial arts that increased his physical ability and gave him both defensive and offensive capabilities. Then he would have a better chance of surviving those sneak attacks and get an advantage when fighting other witches.

As Dreyer thought about how learning martial arts could save his life one day, he gripped the purple crystal in his hand and stood up with determination in his eyes. He was going to ask Yoze to stop stalling their training and teach him martial arts.

Just as he stood up Tiki also opened her eyes and saw Yoze leaning up against her door. She then noticed that he had a serious expression written on his face as if he was facing a powerful enemy.

Before she and Dreyer could say anything to Yoze, he said, "I have something to show you two."

"Oh, and we will be starting your martial arts training now." 

Seeing that he didn't need to ask about martial art training, Dreyer felt curious about what Yoze would want to show them. He had the impression that it was going to be related to their martial arts training.

Tiki on the other hand felt that whatever Yoze wanted to show them must have been extremely important for him to call them over to his room. But when Tiki and Dreyer arrived at Yoze's room both of their minds became blank.

Right in front of them were three middle-aged men who seemed to have become corpses with all their limbs broken. Tiki and Dreyer looked at each with confusion and tried their best to understand why Yoze would bring them over to see these three dead people.

"Are these our enemies?" Tiki asked cautiously.

She wanted to say if these men were Yoze's enemies but held back at the last moment since she felt it would be better to draw herself and Dreyer to Yoze's side. 

"That's right, these men came to me today and asked me to hand you two over to them by midnight." Yoze smiled seeing that Tiki felt that her enemies included his own.

"They wanted us!?" Tiki's and Dreyer's eyes snapped open as they turned to ask Yoze for further explanation.

"The story is pretty simple. When I was walking back home four of these men dressed in black robes and eye masks surrounded me. Demanding I hand both of you over to them by midnight tonight."

"They then tried to escape to which I captured these three and was about to capture the fourth but another man dressed in black robes made a sudden appearance. That newcomer grabbed the escaping man in a bear hug before exploding them both into a large amount of blood and guts." 

"When I arrived back here with these three I saw that they all seemed to have become vegetables. So it's going to be impossible to extract much information about who made this plan and what they want." After retelling the events that happened to him, Yoze waited to see what Tiki and Dreyer had to say.