Today I finished with the undead. Unfortunately, there are no more undead for me to practice on. Fortunately, Azrezel’s hive mind has dramatically improved. I can still use Solar Energy to improve the undead, but without noticeable progress, it is pretty difficult to figure out how to improve. I should also try working on other creatures, as every creature seems to be a bit different, I need to figure out what is consistent.

After finishing up with the undead I started using Solar Energy to expand my perception. It is something I can do with mana, but not very well. I was curious to see what the limits of it was, it might come in handy in the future.

After many false starts eventually I hit my groove and managed to expand my perception beyond my forest, everything up to there was much easier. After a stretching out quite a bit farther it all got rather blurry, of course, I expected that.

What I did not expect was for there to be a massive amount of Solar Energy in the core of the world. This raised several obvious questions, like ‘why hasn’t it exploded from contact to mana yet?’ and ‘what is it?’. So I observed closer and I began to realize a couple things. First is that it has some way of repelling mana, as there is a dead zone before actually reaching it. The second is that the mass of Solar Energy is not just some shapeless blob, but actually an incredibly intricate system of spells, well and beyond anything, I could have thought possible. I can’t even begin to see enough to try and comprehend what I am looking at on anything more than the most basic level.

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On a hunch, I called for the hand of the world and I watched it approach. What I am looking at is the world itself, and it is so much more than I could have imagined. And it wants me to create new life for it. I am one of the many hands of the world, willingly or not.

And then it hit me, that is my Theme. Life. Everything fits. I create and manipulate life, everything about me supports that in one way or another, even Fate if you consider the fact that I mostly try to use it to get better at manipulating Life. My manipulation of plants is this to a T, as is my healing. Dungeons are all about creating things, especially life. Many dungeons used to be Origin after all. My forest was my first successful major attempt at bending life to my will, while my Ent were my first attempt at creating new life. One major use of Solar Energy is the improvement of living creatures. And souls are one of the fundamental parts of a living creature.

Knowing this is all well and good, but what do I do with this knowledge? Obviously, I should focus on things that make me better at creating and manipulating life. It can be an incredibly mentally intensive process to create and manipulate life, often requiring me to cast the same series of spells thousands of times perfectly without deviation, or only slight deviation in exactly the right way. That is certainly made much easier by forming a hivemind with me at the center, which in and of itself is all about manipulating life for my own benefit.

But what else should I focus on once I am done with my current project? I’m not entirely sure. There are a number of things I could do but I’m not sure which one I should do. It doesn’t matter right now, I can think of it later.

Ultimately this doesn’t change much, I don’t see myself acting much different than I already would have. Of course, I could still be completely mistaken, I don’t know what I’m doing any better than the next guy in regards to this type of thing.

I should mention that the scholars did find an instructor for me. Someone who can teach me how to use Solar Energy will be here within the next three days.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.