The Human Giant



"Yoze you're probably going to have to stay outside of town for a few more hours just like last time." Also remembering what Yoze had experienced the last time they came to town Jewel smiled as she joked around.

"Don't you think I look more friendly compared to last time? Plus I am now a scholar of New Swampscott City so it should be much easier for me to get through." Yoze smiled but he suddenly remembered that just as he had gone through a large number of physical changes so has Leah.

Leah was no longer the normal-sized goat that he was the last time they came to town. Instead, he had grown much larger to about 3.5 feet tall and his physical body looked much more muscular. 

If anything he was beginning to look like a demon goat even though he still had a long way to go. But his appearance would make it more of a hassle to bring him into town since he looked less like food and more like a wild beast.

"Leah you might have to stay outside with me this time," Yoze said as he patted Leah's large body.

The moment Leah heard that he might have to stay with Yoze he shook his head in protest before looking at Jewel with a pleading look. As the person who kidnapped him and put him in extremely dangerous situations, Leah disliked following Yoze in any of his adventures.

He even had the suspension that if he was left alone with Yoze for this trip his life would be put in danger again. So Leah hoped that Jewel would see his distress and take him with her inside.

Unfortunately, Jewel only laughed when she saw the look in Leah's eyes as she said, "Yoze, it doesn't seem that your pet goat likes you very much." 

"He is just a bit nervous. I think he lost his taste for traveling after I took him in." Yoze said ignoring the fact that Leah was trying his best to escape from him.

As Yoze and Jewel chatted they arrived at the lone line of people and realized that by the time they got close to the gate, nighttime would fall. Meaning that regardless of what they did everyone would have to sleep out tonight.

As the hours passed by and the sun began to set, everyone in line started to prepare for nightfall. And many groups like them started cooking dinner so they have something to warm them up for the cold night.

"Dreyer, do you remember the address of the party on the letter?" As Drew cooked dinner over the campfire he turned to ask Dreyer for the details.

"Yeah, but I made sure to bring the letter with us just in case I missed anything. Jewel, can you take a look and see if you know where this is?" Dreyer quickly took out the letter from his pouch and handed it to Jewel.

"Let's see, this place should be close to the other side of town near the Flower church. It shouldn't take us very long to get there by carriage."

"Might be a pain to find somewhere to put our carriage though,"

Looking through the letter Jewel quickly read the address and recalled the general area of town it was located in. She then took a sip from her water pouch to sate her hunger until Drew finished making dinner.

After they chatted a bit more and quickly ate their dinner, everyone went to sleep except for Yoze. After arriving at New Swamp Town he had been feeling as if there was something wrong and dangerous waiting for him.

This feeling eradicated any sense of drowsiness in Yoze's body as he decided to stay up for the night and continue his immortal cultivation. Yoze grabbed one of his numerous extra-large pouches full of crystals and began to cultivate.

The night quickly passed by when they heard the New Swamp Town's gate reopen and the line once again started to move. By the time they arrived at the gate, the sun had risen to its peak and the guards were alert as they asked Yoze and Leah to step to the side for an extra security check.

As for Jewel, Tiki, Dreyer, and Drew, they were all granted access to the town and went inside as they planned to wait for him on the other side. Luckily, they didn't have to wait long before a few soldiers appeared and took Yoze's papers before letting him into town.

"You finally made it, congrats."

The moment Yoze stepped inside the town gate they had to deal with a large number of people coming in and out of the town. In such a scenario it normally would have been difficult to find the person who called out to him.

But due to his height, Yoze was able to look over the heads of people allowing him to immediately see Jewel had an ice cream cone in her hand waving him down.

"Thanks, it seems that everything has been good," Yoze said as he walked over to Jewel before suddenly smelling the scent of spices coming from the carriage.

"Everything has been great, actually we don't even need to find the party ourselves as Grandpa Regi had been waiting for us at the gate."

"He is currently inside the carriage right now talking with your father." Jewel calmly said to Yoze as she pointed to the carriage behind her.

"I see," 

Yoze turned his gaze toward the carriage and noticed that he couldn't see any additional spiritual energy inside. 

"So Regi decided not to control his main body, so where did he put his spiritual energy?" Yoze thought to himself as he split his focus on the carriage and tried to find any hints of where Regi's spiritual energy was hiding.

As Yoze was looking around for Regi's spiritual energy in the crowds of people something suddenly caught his eye.