The Human Giant



Having decided to take some blood for himself, Yoze followed his instincts and placed his finger in Grave's black blood. The moment his finger touched the flowing black blood it seemed to be attracted to him as it flowed up his finger.

It gave Yoze the sense that this black blood was alive and wanted to eat him alive. Fortunately, his own blood heart that his cheat had created the moment he took the Blood Heart talent activated and started beating hard.

With each thump of his blood heart, a bit of the black blood was absorbed into his body giving him a sensation as if he was injected with warm water into his veins.

After a few seconds of thumping Yoze pulled his finger away from the black blood to its disagreement due to a full feeling coming from his blood heart.

"I have a blood heart and my regular human heart. Making me one of the few people in the world with two hearts." Yoze thought to himself with amusement before stepping away from Grave's body.

Since he had collected his fill of the black blood, Yoze was simply going to watch what happened to Grave as the black blood took over his body. He hoped to gain a better understanding of what his new blood heart could do and its impact.

As an object gained from an anomaly that breaks the rules of this world, he could only imagine what kind of effects it would have on someone's body.

As Yoze peacefully waited and Blood Master Scarlett watched protected inside her barrier they watched as Grave was completely engulfed in the black blood. Once every inch of his body was covered by so much black blood that it resembled a cocoon.

Once the black blood cocoon was formed, not a single drop of black blood was produced causing the black blood to quickly dry. After a few seconds, all the black blood had dried and hardened into a true cocoon.

"Is he going to hatch into a superhuman?" Yoze thought as he saw that the black blood cocoon began to shake from the inside.

The shaking was weak and happened slowly but it quickly began to shake vigorously as if a monster was trying its best to escape its prison.

"Rip!"

"Roar!" 

A deafening roar followed quickly after the black blood cocoon was torn open revealing the monster inside. The monster was a man in his late twenties with long dark red spikey hair. The man's skin was covered in red tattoos that flowed like blood as an incredibly powerful bloody aura emitted from his body.

The bloody aura was nothing like Yoze had ever seen as it wasn't the aura caused purely by inner vigor or spiritual energy but a mixture of the two. The moment the young man stepped out of the black cocoon Yoze felt his blood start to slow down but picked up its speed once his blood heart started beating.

"Rematch, winner takes, heart." 

The young man who looked like a younger version of Grave spoke with a demonic voice that didn't seem possible to come out of human vocal cords. After making his intent clear the young man ran toward Yoze with a speed that only could be matched by a Martial Grandmaster. 

"Give me your heart!" The transformed Grave yelled as a bloody threw out a simple claw toward Yoze's heart.

Even though Grave's attack wasn't powered up with a martial art technique, Yoze could tell that it was much more lethal compared to Grave's previous full-power punch. Seeing that he was going for the kill immediately after waking up, Yoze's face fell and he lost his desire to fight with Grave.

Before Grave could touch him, Yoze gathered all his spiritual energies and suppressed Grave's spiritual energy that had taken the form of a green shovel with blood stains. The moment Yoze's slammed into Grave's spiritual energy it nearly crushed his bloody green shovel flat.

With such an overwhelmingly oppressive spiritual energy pressing down on his spiritual energy the transformed Grave immediately fell to the ground unable to move at all. The moment he was suppressed Grave's bloody aura raced back into his body to reinforce his spiritual energy.

Not in the mood to watch the transformed Grave attempt to free himself from being suppressed. Yoze allowed some of his spiritual energy to devour all the new blood-red spiritual energy that came out of Grave's body while ignoring the rest of the suppressed spiritual energy.

The moment Yoze allowed his spiritual energies to devour, they went wild and ate every last strand of blood-red spiritual energy until there was nothing left to help him escape.

The pain that Grave felt from his spiritual energy being devoured was so immense that after the last bit of blood-red spiritual energy was devoured he fainted. After losing consciousness for the second time, Grave's body shook as he began to revert to his middle-aged appearance with a pained look still on his face.

"Finally, I just need to wait until he wakes up to confirm he isn't a threat. Does that sound fine with you?" Yoze turned to the Blood Master Scarlett's floating eyeball hoping that would convince her not to try and take Grave's body away for the time being.

Yoze stared at the eyeball for a minute and seeing it not move or change at all he just shook his head and waited. He didn't know if it was because she couldn't hear him or if she didn't have a way to communicate back. 

But he hoped that she wouldn't think that he wanted to kill Blood Master Steel and attempted to rescue him. He didn't want to fight a witch and deal with her tricks to get a new talent when it would do them both good to just wait.

An hour quickly passed by and Yoze saw that Blood Master Steel still had no signs of regaining consciousness soon so he took out a movement technique book he had gotten a long time ago and read it.