The Human Giant



Since today was Tiki's and Dreyer's first day in learning martial arts and were still mentally exhausted Yoze decided to call it early. They would begin once again after dinner when it was closer to nighttime.

After sending Tiki and Dreyer home, Yoze went out to buy some art supplies and begin his art journey to become the best artist in the world. Since it was his first time doing art in this world he decided to start slow and made a few easy drawings of cats and dogs.

The result was that he ended up with muddy and dirty stick figures of a monster between a cat and a dog. Seeing his art abomination Yoze placed down his paintbrush and wondered where he went wrong.

"I made the dog and cat too close and the color on the brush was too runny and messy."

After finding the problem, he picked up his brush and tried to do it again. This time he increased the space between the dog and cat and made sure to only use a light drop of color.

The result was much better with a thick stick figured red dog and a curvy stick figured green cat. Feeling that this was much better, Yoze decided to just get started with creating the pictures of the three men's faces and see how much he could improve in a short period. 

A few hours passed by and Yoze's entire room was littered with crumpled-up paper. While he was focused on drawing his painting of one of the three men's faces he didn't notice that someone had knocked on the door until the second time.

"Who is it?" Yoze looked away from his painting and noticed Dreyer's spiritual energy was standing outside his door.

"It's me, Dreyer. Just came to say that dinner's ready." Dreyer's slightly muffled voice came through the door, reminding Yoze about dinner.

"Alright, I'll be right there," Yoze said, using his spiritual speech to communicate clearly with Dreyer through the door.

"Cool," 

Getting the message, Dreyer's spiritual energy walked toward Jewel's door and tried to remind her about dinner. But even after trying several times, he didn't get a response so he left.

"Jewel, it's time for dinner." Yoze shook his head and used his spiritual speech to wake Jewel up from her sleep.

Luckily, she quickly got up and went to his father's room to eat. Seeing that everyone else was now waiting for him, Yoze decided to call it a day for his art career.

He took one final look at his painting of the man's face which looked like an art a person that had been drawing for a year could accomplish. It was good and had enough detail that it would impress ordinary people but for the standards that Yoze needed it wasn't enough.

The drawing had to be nearly indistinguishable from the real thing so that the investigation into their exact identity could be found. To be able to achieve that kind of result he predicted it would take another 20 hours of work.

After 20 hours his paintings would become so good that artists would mistake him as being a well-known professional artist that had been in the field for years. As for now, Yoze scrapped the pieces of paper and tossed them in the trash. 

He only returned to his room after filling his stomach with fantastic food and having trained Tiki and Dreyer for an hour. Watching them practice he felt his drive to break through another body cultivation flare up. In the mood, Yoze went to his courtyard in the Martial Courtyard and wanted to see if he could break through to level 7 of Big Golem.

"Let's see if I can accomplish it in one night." Yoze's eyes shined as he felt motivated.

Yoze decided to push his body once again to its limits to drive up the production of Big Golem's heavy inner vigor. He first activated the full potential of Mindless Blood Legs to push his entire body into overdrive.

Yoze felt his blood boil and his mind became locked inside his head. Even though Yoze wasn't moving his body, extraordinary heat leaked out of his body and he felt a lot of internal pressure.

"First it was my flesh then it was my bones. What's next? My muscles, tendons, or organs?" Yoze asked curious about the next step Big Golem could take.

He had already evolved Big Golem and had gained the ability to push his inner vigor into his body parts and use them as projectile weapons. Would he be able to send his Big Golem into weapons?

Or would he be able to do the kind of stunts that Martial Silver Thunder did during their fight? Being able to send out his inner vigor directly to deal damage to his opponents.

Either way, Yoze was excited at the prospect of the future of his Big Golem body cultivation method. So when he started to feel the familiar sensation of heavy inner vigor being created, his mind immediately entered a focused state of mind.

[Big Golem (Level 6: 101%)]

Unlike previous times, the heavy inner vigor didn't enter a chaotic state once the new strand of inner vigor was produced. Instead, every last strand of heavy inner vigor began to glow, they all activated at the same time.

In an instant, Yoze's weight increased to more than 3000 pounds which created cracks to form on the tiled floor. Not minding the cracks, his mind raced and he felt that this shouldn't be happening.

"Is it because there is no space in my body?" 

He shook his head as he felt that shouldn't be the case. He had trained in the Big Golem body cultivation method and other body cultivation methods for years now and there seemed to always be room for more inner vigor.

So this time shouldn't have been much different compared to when he broke through to the sixth level. Other than Big Golem activating his other inner vigor had not activated.

If his body had reached its limit then all the inner vigor in his body should have been activated as well or he just wouldn't have been able to produce any more inner vigor. While Yoze was thinking about what was happening he didn't stop the pressure from continuing to produce more heavy inner vigor.

Instead, he actively encouraged it by doing various bodyweight exercises that promote muscle growth and development. Soon, before he knew another strand of heavy inner vigor was squeezed out of his muscles and flesh.

[Big Golem (Level 6: 102%)]

"Did I get more sluggish?" Yoze's eyebrows frowned as he felt that not only did he become heavier but he felt his body being weighed down.

At first, he thought that this might have been an illusion but once the third strand of heavy inner vigor was produced. He felt a bit more weighed down which alerted him to the fact that he could feel the weight of every strand dragging him down.

"Hold on." 

With this revelation, Yoze stopped his training to get more information about what was happening. He needed to make sure that what was currently happening would not start affecting his fighting ability.

Stopping the constant pressure created by Mindless Blood Legs, Yoze closed his eyes to visualize the inner vigor in his body. With his eyes closed he imagined a black figure that has a body shape filled with all types of inner vigor 

However, the type of inner vigor that was the most numerous was glowing with a heavy light. Yoze's heavy inner vigor was still active even when he wasn't producing any more inner vigor.

With his current weight, the few pounds that were added weren't much compared to how much he weighed. But what was different was that he could feel the weight acting on his body as if he had gained a few pounds of muscle or fat.

Previously whenever he had gained strands of heavy inner vigor whenever he gained strands of heavy inner vigor he felt the weight they added but never was hindered by it. So even though he had weighed 3000 pounds before he could move as if he was still only a few hundred pounds.

[Big Golem (Level 6: 103%)]

"Let's take it slow for now. In an unknown situation like this, I should try to avoid anything that can temporarily lower my fighting ability." 

With an unknown enemy lurking around Yoze decided to be cautious about anything that might endanger his family. Including any training that might make him temporarily slower and less able to react to sudden changes on the battlefield.

"This is unfortunate, if this happened at any other time or place I would have just continued with training and kept going until it reached the next level."

"It's even possible that once I make it to level 7 this would naturally solve itself and I would not have to worry about having to move with a couple of thousand pounds everywhere I go."