Today I continued to learn under Shirliex. She commented about how she wished all of her pupils learned as quickly as me, and that it wouldn’t be too long before there would no longer be anything she would be able to teach me. Or rather no longer be anything she would be willing to teach me, I don’t blame her for wanting to keep her secrets. It’s not like I am the official disciple of her clan or something, she’s doing this for money.

The leaders of the city Par captured arrived two days ago, but I was more than a little distracted by other things. I couldn’t exactly let my new tutor just wait around, but I could let those captive wallow in a cell.

They were all chained up very carefully and put under active guard to make absolutely certain they wouldn’t escape. They were also all locked up in separate buildings to prevent any mundane means of communication and there were mages nearby to monitor for magical means.

They were more than a little roughed up, except for the two of them that had some skill in self-healing. I would prefer they be in good health before I do anything to them so I made sure to heal their injuries.

Then I started reading their minds. None of them were innocent per se. All of them had plotted against me in one way or another, but that isn’t really surprising considering the fact that I do, did, represent a threat to their home. But for the most part, it is basically what I would expect from someone in their position. Yeah, learning about how they wanted to burn down my forest ticks me off a little, but it’s hardly damning.

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There were three of them that knew about the attempt to kidnap me, but two of them were only aware of it, they had no part in any of it. Or if they did those memories have been wiped, which is a bit of a stretch but not completely impossible. Regardless I would rather not hurt a relatively innocent person, so I ignored them.

The last guy, however, was a financial backer of the attempted kidnapping. Not a major one, but he did put a significant amount of his own money towards hiring those mercenaries. So with him I did a bit of practice, I wanted to figure out what exactly would happen if you mess up while using Solar Energy to improve the body in all sorts of different ways. A lot of those things ended up being difficult, and painful, to reverse. I’m not so heartless, metaphorically speaking as I don’t actually have a heart, to leave him in constant agony so eventually I did let him die.

Other than that I spent some time with Tiddol in her new laboratory. It seems like she’s gotten a couple assistant since yesterday. A couple of the Ents had some skill with alchemy and other crafts from a previous life, and the same held true for one of the clockwork people. Most still have not learned language, but he was a quick study. It isn’t very often that you have functionally infinite supplies and high-grade equipment, or so I’m lead to believe, so they are getting a bit ambitious. How exactly I have no idea, but I am looking forward to finding out.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.