Three days later, Ember was still preparing her plan to poison her eldest sister and second brother.
She had to do this. After all, Ember had gone to protest to her eldest sister, "You can't hog so much energy all by yourself!"
Not only had her eldest sister drained the power from Ember's body, but afterward, the "food" she left behind was not even enough to feed Lietta.
Lietta treasured those poisons far too much. Ember had spent a long time before barely managing to get around twenty from her.
She could guess that the poisons had other uses, but in Ember's eyes... those Source Crystal Stones were deadly toxins capable of harming them.
But the dosage was not enough. Her eldest sister had lived in this city for who knew how many years, and the energy stored within her was tens of millions of times greater than Ember's.
She needed Source Crystal Stones of higher purity.
The long hair behind Ember transformed into tentacles and seized a wooden stick. Two tentacles strained to snap it, but failed.
She was now so weak that she might not even be able to defeat a human. Yet to obtain higher-purity Source Crystal Stones, Ember had to speak with their maker.
The information Ember had gotten from Lietta was that the maker was at the Sewing Gang's headquarters.
So despite being in such a weakened state, Ember disguised herself and took on another appearance before arriving at the tavern operated by the Sewing Gang.
"Patroller, what brings you back to our little establishment?"
Maso immediately noticed Ember wandering through the tavern. Though she had altered her appearance to look like a down-and-out beggar.
The aura of a Patroller was fundamentally different from that of a human, and beggars would not dare enter a