Samuel immediately stopped the action of refining the energy. Even though he had only managed to refine about 50% of the total energy that he had managed to gain together with the efforts put by Malia, his strength had increased by quite a good margin.
The good thing about being a beast tamer was the fact that with his strength increasing, the strength of his beasts also increased. And with that, his overall strength was increasing, basically double joy.
Samuel did not delay at all. He understood the innate ability that Thunder possessed. It could be said that maybe thunder was made for running away? After all, he could detect if there was someone that was targeting them from a distance, and the fact that he focused on speed instead of combat kind of proved it.