This morning I continued to study under the older dungeon. Today we didn’t go over any major things, it was still just a bunch of minor nuances and little details to keep in mind. I’m not entirely sure how it will help yet, but I know from other magics that I have pursued that learning every seemingly inconsequential detail will definitely help you improve.

I also asked him about the deal with my soul shrinking slightly while I was doing the exercises he recommended I do. His response was something along the lines of ‘yes that does happen, but it's amazing that you were able to notice.’ We then had a conversation about how I was able to notice, he said that the answer might change the way I he teaches me as it implies a level of ability he had assumed was beyond me. Basically, it came down to me using my hivemind to do the exercise countless times simultaneously, which he said would give me a very distinct advantage over other dungeons if I can keep it up for a couple of months. I probably can’t keep it up to that degree for so long, but I can dedicate quite a bit of mental resources to it for a while.

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He also said that he needed to take a break for a day to create something that should help him teach me faster. And that before he was teaching me out of obligation, but now he is actually excited to see what I can learn. Which is a good thing I think, I’ve never really had teachers that didn’t want to teach me so I wouldn’t know. I can’t imagine that it’s a bad thing though.

Once the lesson was done I got to work refining my body again, though with much of my mental resources dedicated to improving my soul I wasn’t able to make a lot of progress. It mostly involved getting parts that were not designed to work together, work together better, and while I did make some progress with it I still have a ways to go.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Azrezel. I helped him solve a couple problems he was having with a new design for some of his undead. He was trying to design something that was good at magic but was stumbling over the layout of the mana pathways, things weren’t moving around as well as they should be. It took a while but I eventually found a place where two different pathways got a little too close and allowed mana to bridge the gap easily, causing things to get damaged and not work properly.

It was really fun to work with Azrezel again.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.