Today my teacher told me that I had learned all that he was able to teach me about the structure and function of the soul. He also admitted that he went into so much detail about all of the tiny minutiae, most of which he admitted will only offer minor benefit to me, because he was hoping I would get bored and not want to learn from him again. He couldn’t just not teach me as that would break the contract we already made, and he couldn’t not take advantage of my hive mind because that would go against the ‘if you are capable of learning it’ part of our contract.

The fact that I have managed to learn so much so quickly makes him a little bit more interested in teaching me, but not by enough for him to not be a little irritated by this whole thing.

And also, now that I think about it, this was originally a completely one-sided deal during the original circumstances it was made in. In my defense I wasn’t exactly thinking straight at that point in time, I was kind of in shock and nothing felt real, but still. He got an unspecified future favor, that could be almost anything, while I got to figure out if I was actually dying or not a couple days in advance. I know that there is probably a lot you can do to prepare for your own death in a couple days, but I am still working on the skills that would let me prepare for my own death at all.

Still, I’m really glad I made that contract now. I’m more than willing to do a month’s worth of work, especially now that I’ve managed to go over the restrictions on what kind of favor it can be a bit more. For example, I missed the part that says that the service cannot be something that would result in personal harm or death, which means he can’t ask me to damage my forest in any way as it is an extension of myself in the same way that any dungeon is an extension of the dungeon core. It also means that he can’t ask me to hurt or kill my followers or my close friends, as all of them are part of my hivemind and that makes them an extension of my mind, which is part of myself. Now he could ask me to do something that results in harm or death to my forest or my followers, but not directly. Like he could ask me to pick a fight with someone, which results in people dying during the fallout, but couldn’t ask me to kill Tiddol.

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I personally hope he asks me to craft something for him.

Anyway, he is going to start teaching me how to get use out of the soul starting tomorrow.

During the time I wasn’t learning about the soul I was refining my body, which was a slow process thanks to a big part of my focus going towards refining my soul. At this rate, it will be three or four more days before I have all of the parts I already put into my body functioning at peak effectiveness, at which point I can start improving those parts.

I have noticed that adding new material to my body does set me back a bit on my admittedly minimal progress towards cultivating my body with Solar Energy, but that isn’t exactly a priority. In addition, mana is less efficient at healing my body as there is more that I need to heal thanks to Solar Energy, though healing with Solar Energy is still just as effective. I wonder if there have been any other effects as a result of refining my body with Solar Energy? I’ll have to test it out later.

Other than that I spent my time with Azrezel. We ended up cuddling for a while, I’m kinda surprised it didn’t progress beyond that.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.