Waiting until she could see her surroundings, Alva discovered that she was already outside Jelro city.
She felt all her mana returned to her body, complete and without any aftereffects. It was as if the disappearance of all the power just now was just an illusion.
"Who exactly is this person?"
Alva wondered, with just one simple move, she could be taken outside the city. This was the first time Alva had seen such a trick.
She predicted that Noir would probably be on par with her master, perhaps even stronger.
"This person has this level of power, so he has no reason to lie to myself. Then everything he said could be true!"
Alva silently thought about this.
In a world like this one where power is the ultimate law, whether you are strong or not can say a lot.
If Noir were just an ordinary person, no matter how excellently he persuaded or how reliably he presented, Alva would still be skeptical.
On the contrary, when Noir displays an overwhelming power, anything he utters no matter how meaningless and ridiculous. As long as it comes from him, there will still be people who will ponder and speculate to see if there is any deeper meaning hidden underneath.
Alva bowed her head in the direction of the store, then turned into a ray of light and flew towards the south.
Inside the store, Noir sat back in his chair comfortably, unable to control the radiant smile on his face because of his first successful mission.
"Up to 50 Accumulation Interest. I wonder how much power this amount of Accumulation can be exchanged for..."
Think and then act.
Noir activates the system, choosing to consume accumulated energy to increase his base power.
"Do you accept converting 50 Accumulations into power?"
"Accepted! Come here, my love!"
Noir was very excited.
However, something very strange happened.
Even though the "Accumulation" count had returned to zero, confirming the completion of the conversion, but... Noir didn't feel... any change at all.
"Huh?"
"System, what the heck is this?!"
"Where's my power?"
Noir rebooted the system, observing his data again.
[Name]: Noir
[Power]: 0
….
"Wrong judgment."
"You have no Source, no basis to increase your power."
Noir felt like he was about to go crazy.
He didn't care why it was like this, he only knew that he had just thrown his first profit out the window.
"Damn it!"
In the end, Noir still had to ask the Truth system to let him take a supplementary course.
Source, Root, Origin, Heart, Core... This thing has countless names, depending on the world, each individual will call it in many different ways. It's just that Source is still the most common address.
But no matter the name, they are trying to describe something as rooted as something can be. Regardless of whether it is a person, an animal, a tree, a rock or a natural phenomenon. All things have a Source.
If the Source is lost, you will not simply die, but you will disappear, as if you never existed, were never born.
"Wait, then why don't I have one?"
"Wrong judgment."
"Hey! Just now you said I didn't have a Source!"
"Wrong judgment."
Noir questioned the system, but what he received in return was "wrong judgement". With no choice, he was forced to put that aside, holding the anger in his heart without knowing where to vent it.
To the south, inside a cave.
A girl sat with her back against the cliff, her face was extremely pale because there was a huge cut on her chest. The power in that cut left her with no way to heal it.
This is Keelin, the man Alva chases after.
"Damn it! ***** damned knight! I only sacrificed a small village and you chased after me for so long."
Thinking that she was just a moment away from being reincarnated, Keelin's eyes showed even more venom. She wants Alva to pay the price, not only Alva, but everyone related to Alva must also pay dearly.
"Mom is coming soon too."
Keelin licked her lips, feeling the bond with "Mother" was getting stronger. Keelin also became more and more excited. As long as Mother appeared, even if there were 10 people like Alva, she would die.
At this moment, she felt someone approaching her current location. The smile hanging on Keelin's mouth froze, the cut on her chest suddenly became more painful.
"He is indeed right, you are hiding here."
A ray of light descended from the sky, heading straight towards Keelin. She panicked and quickly summoned a monster blocking the front. But before the beast could be summoned, Keelin's vision faded.
"It's over."
The only thing left in the witch's mind before she died were Alva's gentle words.
Until the moment she died, Keelin still didn't know why she hid so carefully but was still found.
In a world where most "knights" have nothing more than a title, she happened to encounter a knight with the qualities of a true knight. Even more coincidental was this knight. just strong enough to judge her.
It can be said that her fate is not very good.
However, even though her head fell off her neck, the mighty vitality of an individual with supernatural powers still helped Keelin take her last breath.
"Mother is coming..."
"Even if you run now, you won't be able to make it in time."
"We will meet in the afterlife."
Keelin left her last words, laughing maniacally before her entire body collapsed into dust.
Alva tiredly knelt down on the ground. In that time, finding and destroying Keelin was not an easy task.
However, at this moment Alva did not have time to worry about her gradually encroaching fatigue. Because Alva felt a greater danger than ever surrounding herself. A fear so great that it made a brave knight like Alva unable to help but shiver.
"Mother of the Witch..."
As a person from the Knight Association, Alva also knows some mysterious things through the association's information system. Alva also knows how the "mother and daughter" relationship of witches works. .
It's not a mother-child relationship based on normal birth, nor is it an adoption relationship or anything like that. It's that the witch "Mother" will plant a witch's seed in a normal woman. When this woman becomes pregnant, the witch's seed will invade and pollute the baby.
The baby, no, a witch would then kill the mother by absorbing all of her life and be born.
That was the birth of the witch "Daughter". Also a method of creating pure-type witches.