The Human Giant



"Whatever, hopefully, he will have some good talents," Yoze shook his head at the middle-aged man's lack of items and felt that it was enough for the current him.

Yoze turned his attention back to the building and saw that Tiki and Dreyer noticed that their enemy had left already and began to make their way out of this dangerous area.

As Tiki and Dreyer made their retreat, Yoze watched them as a hawk before moving in to bring them back. After witnessing that battle Yoze became more interested in their power system. He had been watching the entire battle and couldn't sense any usage of Inner Vigor or Spiritual energy. 

"So they must be using a different type of energy that I couldn't sense." 

Witnessing their battle made Yoze no longer interested in letting Tiki and Dreyer wander around and fight immortal cultivators while he followed them. He wanted to bring them back home and ask them to teach him about immortal cultivation and witchcraft.

After deciding to bring them back home Yoze rapidly jumped over to the alley that Tiki and Dreyer decided to use as their escape route and made himself known. 

"Who is there?" Tiki's eyes widened as she scanned her surroundings. She frowned as she felt a presence near them but couldn't pinpoint where it was.

"It's me," Yoze waved as he stepped out from the shadows holding the stunned middle-aged man in one of his arms.

"Yoze?" Tiki asked cautiously as she didn't recognize him with his new armor on. 

Realizing that they never saw him wearing armor, Yoze took off his helmet to show them that it was him. Tiki and Dreyer instantly felt as if a boulder had been lifted off their shoulders.

After living with Yoze for a few days Tiki and Dreyer had grown used to the strange yet stable aura that Yoze leaked and felt more comfortable than they should have been considering he was keeping them captive at their father's home.

This was thanks to Yoze's spiritual energies being more stable compared to before but the conflict between the three spiritual energies still made Yoze leak that strange aura that Tiki and Dreyer were used to.

After gaining the Armored Elephant Body Cultivation talent there was less chance for one of his spiritual energies to run wild and unleash their pressure as they did back when he only had two since they formed an imperfect balance.

"What is it that you want? It can't be to take us back. When we successfully escaped." Tiki said confidently.

"Plus look at you it looks like you just came back from a mission so how about you focus on handling your prisoner before coming to us in such a hurry." 

Convinced that they had escaped and coupled with Yoze's strange outfit and captive, Tiki and Dreyer became under the impression that Yoze had gone out to complete a mission which was one of the reasons for their successful escape. After finishing the mission and realizing that they were gone he rushed to find them not even putting away his captive beforehand.

"Can't you tell this man is the person who attacked you and Dreyer moments ago? I just captured him to ask him a few questions." Yoze lifted the frozen middle-aged man and took out his silver needles and two weird-looking rocks.

"So I wouldn't call that your adventure a successful escape but it was entertaining to watch immortal cultivators and a witch fight." Yoze nodded his head in approval as his admiration for his two siblings doubled.

He could tell from the fight that they were skilled fighters and must have experienced plenty of life-and-death situations to become so skilled. It also explained why they were so determined to leave since they were used to relying on themselves to survive.

When Tiki and Dreyer saw Yoze pull out the middle-aged man's silver needles they looked shocked but they weren't fully convinced that they hadn't escaped successfully. They felt that there was a small probability that he had just arrived and seen the needle-shaped holes before using his own to trick them.

However, when Yoze took out the two strange-looking rocks the looks on their complexions became nervous before they hid it. Tiki and Dreyer have been in the field for long enough to tell when an item belonged to an immortal cultivator even when they had no understanding of its usage.

That meant either Yoze had stumbled upon an immortal cultivator and was given these rocks, or had killed an immortal cultivator and stolen his things. Either case meant that he was someone who knew that they had tricks and wouldn't be surprised by their escape methods.

As for whether that middle-aged man was the person who attacked them no longer mattered and Tiki and Dreyer had a feeling that Yoze meant it when he said that he allowed them to leave. After being under the impression that they had escaped from Yoze's hold, Tiki and Dreyer didn't want to come back without first attempting to escape again. 

In any case, they felt they had a better chance now that he was burdened to carry that middle-aged man. So Tiki and Dreyer threw a glance at each other before they walked closer to Yoze.

"You can't use these items to prove that this man is an immortal cultivator. They could have belonged to anyone which means you can't..." Before Dreyer finished speaking he pulled out a black ball and a flute and slammed the black ball into the ground.

The black ball then exploded into a cloud of inky black smoke that covered their bodies.

"...take us back." Dreyer's speech continued as his voice grew smaller and fainter as if the distance between them was rapidly increasing.

Just as Dreyer continued his speech a wind blew the black smoke away revealing that they had disappeared.

Looking at the empty spot in front of him, Yoze felt impressed by Tiki and Dreyer's trick. He didn't know how they did it but they were able to make Dreyer's voice sound as if he was miles away from him. 

But looking at the purple star of spiritual energy and the green sphere of spiritual energy still right in front of him Yoze knew that they were still just here. While he was impressed by their tricks Yoze placed the middle-aged man down and grabbed fit Tiki's and Dreyer's collars.