In the morning I decided to ask Tiddol about the time she met one of the last surviving Origin. According to her, it looked exactly like described in the book, like a floating ball of light. She also mentioned the way it talked, or rather didn’t, she described a voice just appearing in her mind while she discussed with it. She didn’t talk to it long, but from what she said it was dying, or at least it seemed like it was dying. When she left it gave her a parting gift, the book I picked up yesterday, made out of pure mana in the blink of an eye.

After that, I returned to reading. I read about their first creations, all of them ended in failures, I read about how they tried over and over again until the managed to make something that didn’t die instantly, a troll. How they solved the problems they were faced when creating life fascinated me. The first, and most obvious problem was the weight of the world itself, anything they would make was crushed to death almost immediately. They solved that problem by making their creations sturdier and more durable, allowing them to survive longer. But no matter how durable they made their creations they would always fall sick and die within a couple days. Supposedly it took them years by our current understanding for them to figure out the problem, it was mana, or more specifically mana poisoning. Their creations were not built to handle mana, and so it wrecked their bodies. At the time Origin as a whole had no idea how to allow a living thing to wield mana, so instead, they made it impervious to it. After more than a year of refinement, they finally managed to produce the first viable form of life other than themselves, the trolls. Their durable bodies and near perfect immunity to magic, coupled with immense regenerative power made them ideal for surviving and possibly thriving.

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What amazed me most was the level of detail in the book, most of it I couldn’t even begin to understand, but the little bit I did was eye-opening, to say the least. I might have to read this book a couple times, and that could take awhile, but for the first time, I have a solid lead on how to manipulate all forms of life. And not just that, but also to create life too.

Needless to say, I'm probably not going to get much sleep tonight, because it'll be reading. The biggest problem with that is light. Maybe I'll get Mest to teach me a basic torch spell, shouldn’t be too difficult, hopefully.

Anyway, Good Night Diary