The Human Giant



"It's that far away," Leah said with surprise.

When he was listening to Jewel having a conversation with Tiki, he felt that they were talking about closer locations. Even at Yoze's immense speed, it would take days to reach the Flower Forest, meaning that this was a journey that would take a normal person months to travel.

"Do you still want to go?" Yoze asked Leah one more time.

"Yes, I still want to go to the Flower Forest and make it my new home." Leah shook his head with determination as he looked at Yoze with a wall of solid steel.

He was finally able to take his fate into his own hands, so there was no way he would give up this chance. All he needed to do was think more positively. For example, since it was so far away, that meant there were fewer chances that Yoze would reach out again and kidnap him.

"Okay, let's go right now. I want to collect a few things before we leave town." Yoze said, planning on first collecting a few martial art techniques from Regi's house so he could practice during their breaks and in the middle of the night.

"Okay," Understanding that Yoze was serious about helping him, Leah felt his heart become slightly touched and agreed to follow him along.

An hour later, two odd figures walked outside the southern gate of New Swamp Town when the sun was at its peak. With the cloudless day allowing the sun's powerful rays to slam into all creatures below it, the two odd figures stood out immediately from the many other travelers who had left.

One was a tall man with a long and thick dark green trench coat that struggled to cover up his powerful physical body. Only his tightly bandaged-up head with two holes located at his eyes allowed him to see.

Even though the sun's intense rays tried their best to blind the tall man, they did nothing to affect the tall man's sight, as faint multi-colored sparkles would occasionally appear in his eyes. Besides that tall man was also a giant goat that easily dwarfed other goats in size and had a smaller amount of sparkles that seemed to be permanently inside its red eyes.

Tied to the giant goat's back was a bundle of brown bags that seemed to contain books, water, and food that would last only a few days for these two abnormally sized individuals. The tall man turned to the goat and spoke to it as if he was chatting with another human being and was expecting a response.

"You ready?"

The giant goat looked straight into the tall man's eyes and slowly nodded in a human-like manner. Then, seeing that the goat was still firm in its conviction, the tall man reached out and carried the goat, like one would hold a princess.

"Thud Thud Thud"

Faint deep thuds came out of the tall man's chest as the freshly changed bandages covering his body quickly were dyed dark red before blood leaked out of every pore of the tall man's body. The rapidly leaking blood covered every inch of the tall man's body without a single drop of blood touching the floor.

The dark blood quickly transformed into armor made of flowing dark blood as a bloody mist hovered around the tall man's body, encircling the goat into the blood mist. The goat shivered as it was surrounded by the ominous blood mist but calmed down when it realized that this was most likely the safest place it had ever been.

Once the tall man's transformation was complete, he took one step and disappeared, leaving only a single footprint on the ground showing that the tall man and the giant goat were ever there. By the time the tall man and giant goat reappeared, they had reached a small town that was known as Earthly Penguin Town. 

Deciding that this would be a good location to allow the giant goat in his arms to rest and regain its sanity, the tall man placed the giant goat down and said.

"We can take a quick break here to rest up your mental state. So would you like to eat or just lie down for half an hour?" 

"I heard from Jewel that your rides are kinda difficult to get used to, and it all makes sense. I might not have to fight for my life against the wind, but seeing how fast the surrounding environment became a blur hurts my head." Leah fiercely shook his head as he felt slightly nauseous.

Even though ever since Yoze had become a Blood Master, he was able to use his blood to form a blood mist that could protect his passengers from the wind and make the whole experience more pleasant, he couldn't do anything to stop others from getting sick from not being able to adjust to the high speeds he travels in. He chalked it up to the same experience as a passenger getting motion sickness after getting into a car, and the driver immediately pushed their car to 200 miles per hour.

While the passengers might have been protected from the wind and we're already used to riding in cars, if it was their first time traveling so fast, they would still feel a bit sick to their stomachs. So he didn't mind at all that Leah felt a bit sick at the beginning of their journey and had taken that into account while planning this trip.

"So lying down is your choice. Let's go find a tree outside of town to rest for a bit under the shade." Yoze softly said as he began walking to a large tree nearby that had enough space to allow him to fully lay down his body so he could take a short nap.

In the same mood as Yoze, Leah followed along and sat down under the cool shade of the tree and quickly felt himself dozing off to sleep. Unfortunately, he was only able to nap for twenty minutes before he heard a rough chirping sound coming from right above him.

"What is that noise? I'm trying to sleep." Annoyed that his beautiful nap was interrupted, Leah looked up to find that a small baby bird was staring at him with curiosity.

The baby bird was covered in brown feathers, had jet-black claws, and had a pair of red eyes. Even though the small baby bird was flying above Leah with curiosity in its eyes, it seemed to be avoiding Yoze, who had also woken up from his nap and was staring at the small baby bird.

"What an interesting fellow. To have animal-shaped spiritual energy is already rare. Not to mention having a bird-shaped spiritual energy as a bird, you must be an extremely talented bird." Yoze said to the small baby bird with fondness.

"Does it matter how talented this bird is? Unless it can talk, I don't want to spend any of my brain cells thinking about its future." Leah muttered softly to himself as he felt a bit disappointed he couldn't rest a little longer.

"What a shame. I already used my last talent mark on the Flower God back at New Swamp Town. But if you are still here by the time I come back, I'll take you back with me so you can help me protect my father." Yoze thought to himself as he stood up and prepared to leave with Leah.

They still had a long way to go, and he didn't want to spend too long in one place as he didn't want to accidentally miss his chance to become a student of an immortal sect. 

"Wait, catch that bird!" 

Suddenly Leah and Yoze snapped their heads toward a young man and young woman dressed in colorful grabs running towards them with blazing passion in their eyes. The young woman saw that she had gotten Yoze's attention and waved her hands wildly as she screamed again.

"Don't let our sacred bird escape! Catch it before it flies away!"

Yoze shifted his attention back to the small baby bird that had been flying around Leah and found that it was already escaping as soon as it saw the young woman and man. Interested in the fact that this small bird could be some type of sacred bird, Yoze decided to help these people catch it.

Tapping his foot lightly on the ground, Yoze's body flew up into the air and quickly got in front of it, allowing it to softly crash into his chest before using one hand to softly capture it. Once he softly returned to the ground, he saw looks of shock on the young man's and young woman's faces.

"Sir, thank you for helping us catch our sacred bird. We had been looking for it for months and failed numerous attempts to capture it." The young man said with gratitude as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"I am happy to help, and I only have two requests before I hand over this beautiful bird," Yoze said with a smile.

"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!" 

The small baby bird chirped loudly as it fruitlessly tried to escape from Yoze's grasp while looking at Leah for help. The look of trust in its eyes touched Leah's heart as he turned his head away.