Amelia's POV:
"He's gone."
A murmur came out from my mouth and I didn't even know what expression I was making.
I only knew that I was smiling from ear to ear, grinning.
Did him helping me make me that happy?
But still, I'm really thankful.
Although he was just a stranger minutes ago, he's now helping me with my revenge.
He's a kind man.
As I was thinking that the door slowly opened as a creaking sound of it flowed to my ears.
I was wary.
Aither just went out a few moments ago.
Then who could it be?
Were they able to follow me and only show up when Aither was gone?
Or perhaps..... Aither is one of them?
No, that's not right, even though we just met, I know he's not that kind of guy.
Various thoughts filled my mind and I readied myself as I formed a fighting stance.
I waited as the door slowly opened and as I was just about to jump in to attack.
"Ah, I forgot to bring a weapon, haha~"
It's him... It was Aither.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight with someone to death.
Huuu....
Oh, right how will he be able to kill him without a weapon.
"Do you have a knife or something that could fit into my clothes?"
He said to me as he pinched out his clothes.
He was wearing a white dress and the only way to hide the knife is to get in that dress.
There are no pockets so he has to put it in his u- underwear.
But....
"H- Here, t- this is the only sharp thing I have....."
I was embarrassed, I'm giving him a butter knife to assassinate someone.
Now his giving me a look that's filled with amusement.
He was smiling at me as he received it and blush appeared on my face from the embarrassment.
"Please forgive me, this is all I have!"
I slightly bowed my head and apologize to him.
"Don't say it like that, it'll make me look like I'm extorting you."
He looked from side to side before he said that to me.
I guess he was right. It really looks that way.
"I'm sorry."
I apologize once more.
He was really going to assassinate someone with a butter knife.
Yet, the smile on his face never left.
"It's fine. You know even a butter knife could be a dangerous weapon if you want to kill someone with it.
So don't worry too much, even with this much I can still kill him by slicing his neck....
At least I think so."
With that said he finally left and closed the door behind him.
Leaving me alone in the house with a red face dying from embarrassment.
That's why I'll say it one more time even if you aren't here.
"Thank you."
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I can't believe I'm going to assassinate someone with a butter knife.
Well, no matter, even with this I think I could kill him.
If not, I'll just strangle that bastard to death.
Or I could just go and grab the sword in my room.
But I wouldn't be able to hide it.
Also, with him being the town lord's son, he must have subordinates protecting him.
That's why before the night falls, I'll increase my strength.
I still have three origin beads I got from killing those things.
So the first thing I did was return to the inn with a butter knife sitting beside my crotch.
As I stepped inside, naturally people's gaze followed me.
I even heard someone catcalling me.
But that didn't matter as I immediately head upstairs and entered my room.
Currently, Mai and Anaia are inside the room in front me.
I don't want to disturb them so I didn't tell them I was back.
Instead, I left a message to Anaia that I won't be coming back till evening or more.
I grabbed the three beads in my bed and sat in lotus pose.
I put the three of them on my lap and began concentrating.
It is said that in order to advance you must refine your source to the fullest.
And I know these three things will only help me a little bit.
But with 2x source regeneration I think I could improve faster than others.
Though it won't help me much in absorbing.
They said that I only need to absorb the source inside this thing and refine it.
But how do you refine 'it' exactly?
Well, let's not dwell on that too long, I'll just do it my way.
After all, this body is especially talented.
The first thing I did was obviously absorbed the source from he three origin beads into my body.
Then, I mixed it, well at least I tried to mix it.
However, it wouldn't mix with my source no matter what.
So I thought of it.
The thing they do in cultivator manhuas.
It's to remove impurities and make it purer.
Maybe that should do it.
And so I began to remove the impurities in the source.
The one with the unique source of a beast I discarded it and left behind only the pure sources.
They're like fragments and so I discarded the unneeded ones.
And that left me with three formless sources flowing inside my body.
Afterwards, I once again tried to mix it with mine.
The source is a formless energy like liquid.
But just like oil and water they have their own unique properties and that's why they can't mix.
But what if you make it possible for oil to be attracted to water?
Then it might be possible to mix it.
And that's what I'm going to do right now.
Instead of refining it right now and absorbing it, I will instead mix it with my source.
That's when I'll begin my refining.
The energy inside the three beads moved their way to my source at my command.
However, once again they were blocked, unable to mix.
It was as if there was some barrier.
Maybe I'm unconsciously resisting a foreign energy from my source.
Wait, actually isn't that the reason?
The reason why it won't mix is because my source is not accepting a foreign source.
That's logical, after all, sources have their very own origin.
And what is my origin?
Even I still don't know that yet.
That's why I thought of a simple way for my source to accept it.
I'll mix the foreign source with a little bit of mine.
If it can't mix with mine, I'll just mine with it.
It's just vice versa.
And it worked, as I focused my mind, the two sources mixed with each other almost perfectly.
I'm feeling very ecstatic right now.
Now then, onto the next part, the most crucial stage of all.
If this fails, then there's no other way around it.
Slowly I moved the mixed sources to mine.
As they moved closer, I could see the barrier forming around my source.
It was an amazing sight as an amorphous energy flowed through the barrier.
It look illusory.
As if the barrier was never there.
It's also the reason why I didn't see it in the first place as I was only focusing on the sources.
Then, as if time had stopped for me at the final moment.
My heart beated faster than ever before as my body was shaking from anxiousness.
Then finally.....
It got through.
"It got through."
I grinned from this joyous occasion.
I'm now able to refine this source as my own after I mixed it with mine.
I'm going to get a power up, hell yeah baby!
"Just you wait for me you bastard, I'll slice you up with my butter knife."