Mest’s friends were delayed for some reason, it was explained to me why but I thought it was pretty boring so I forgot about it. They got here just a little bit earlier, dead tired. They are currently sleeping in one of the huts Par’s tribe have built. I was able to talk to them a bit, and they did give me a good first impression. Of the three only one really talked, another was already asleep and being carried by the third, who was also arranging a place for them to sleep. He was polite and respectful, and that was even before he knew who I was. When I commented on that he replied with ‘in my line of work you never know if the person in front of you could kill you with a thought, so it’s best to always be courteous’.

During the rest of the day I mostly practiced controlling the puppet better, and I did make a small amount of progress. I found that the best way to practice is to try to use the puppet while i’m doing other things, try to get to the point where I can dexterously use the puppet constantly without it impacting my day to day life. I am a very long way off from that, I don’t think I would be able to do it perfectly if I spent a year straight practicing, but I could get halfway much more reasonably.

As for what I was doing while trying to get the puppet to run at the back of my mind, I was doing some stretches Talus showed me that are supposed to improve your physical body. As I don’t have a physical body, i’m just a bunch of very complicated spells woven together with some equally complicated illusions covering everything up, all of which is driven by a soul, it’s not normally useful for me to do this kind of thing. I could sit still for a decade without moving, and when I stand up I will be just as physically fit and just as flexible, assuming something didn’t go wrong. The opposite is also true, I could lift weights for years before showing any tangible results. From my understanding, the only way for me to become physically stronger, more flexible, etc, excluding evolving, is through magic. Both temporary enhancements and general magical growth work for that. It is theoretically possible for me to modify the magic that makes up my body, but that would essentially be suicide, and I get the feeling it’s not just because I know nothing about that kind of thing.

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Anyway, the reason I was doing those exercises was to figure out exactly how physically strong I am now after I evolved. Endurance is straightforward and hardly an issue, as soon as I run out of mana i’m no longer able to do much, meaning as long as I don’t go overboard I can go pretty much indefinitely, ignoring the need to sleep and the desire for food.

Strength is less obvious, it’s more about finding a happy medium right before the mana cost for things becomes exponentially larger. I could theoretically lift anything if I had access to enough mana, but then again so could anyone. I definitely enjoyed an increase to my strength, though there wasn’t much need for it.

Flexibility to increased dramatically. I won’t go into details, but due to recent events, I am more aware of how flexible I was before evolving than I was aware of how strong I was.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.