Today I met with my new tutor. She was from a species of beast known as a sphinx, something in the feline line of beasts. The first thing about her that I noticed, beyond the physical was the fact that she had absolutely no mana in her body, in fact she was actively repelling mana. I’m not sure I would be capable of touching her.

When she realized that it was me she was supposed to teach she scoffed, saying ‘there’s no way an intangible can make use of Ki’. A quick demonstration was enough to shut her up.

Despite, or possibly because of, her initial disbelief she seemed to be an eager and effective teacher. She took a very hands-on approach to teaching me, subtly shaping the Solar Energy I was working within a way that I could easily observe. Though she was always careful to avoid touching me directly.

At first, I was freaking out a little when she said we were going to practice on myself, and I said as much. When she asked me what I have been practicing with she commented that she wished she had thought of it first.

She watched in awe as I then created a corpse with a bit of magic and had Azrezel raise it, I will admit to showing off more than a little there. To be fair she did the same thing when she demonstrated her own skills. Also creating a corpse is a lot easier than I thought it would be, well I guess it would be more accurate to call it a body as it never actually died.

She said that my background as a healer will do wonders for my ability to improve creatures with Solar Energy. Apparently, physiology plays a major part in what she called the cultivation of flesh and bone, so I was right.

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There is so much I have to learn from this woman, and again no one tells me names. I mean I can read minds now, but it is hardly subtle. In the same way that an axe to the face is subtle.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Tiddol, we mostly just hung out. Speaking off, I have tons of money in the terminal because of her, like several orders of magnitude more than I ever have had. I guess that is what happens when you have thousands of creatures in a new tree of life up for sale. It feels wrong to use that money for myself, but it is way more than I would reasonably be able to use on a single gift. What should I get her? Probably something really expensive, or something she would be incapable of getting on her own. She has commented that she would love to have a proper laboratory before, so I should get the blueprints for one of those and make it for her.

As far as I can tell the more expensive something is the better it is, at least in the terminal. So I pulled up the most expensive blueprint labeled laboratory, which I do have enough money for. It seems to cover a ton of stuff, I’m not even going to try and list it out. I did recognize a couple of things, like alchemy, clockmaking, and blacksmithing, but then there are things like glass blowing. Why would you want to blow glass? How would you blow glass? What is that supposed to accomplish?

Regardless, after buying the blueprint it seems to be really big. I’ll probably carve it out of a mountain or a large hill or something. At first, I was worried about having all the materials required to build it, but then I realized that I would be doing it the way a dungeon would. Materials are irrelevant, only mana matters. It shouldn’t take too long though, and even if it does I would only need a fraction of my attention on it. I look forward to seeing her reaction.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.