The journey back to the dorms was a quiet one. They got there, they talked for a minute or two, Diana got more or less yelled at, and it was over. No fun discussions with her peers or getting to know more people her age. And it was so late at night that the moon was starting to go down.
A moonset?
Either way, her mind was still going over the fact that she was being seen as undeserving. It wasn't a complete lie when she thought of it. While she still lived with her father, she didn't really do much training with Sir Knight. Especially after she got hurt, her father had reduced her training to the minimum after scraping her knee. But that didn't mean she completely stopped. She knew how to use a spear, after all, although she wasn't that good at using it.
If she tried fighting in the tournament with just a spear, she would have been one of those that lost in the first round. But she knew all this already, meeting Vita didn't mean she got cockier all of a sudden. She still acted the way she had before, and didn't plan on being rude to people just for the fun of it.
It's just having someone call her out like that, it didn't feel right. While she could have relied on Vita for who knows how long to fight for her, that didn't mean she was guarantied to never get hurt. Her shoulder still hurt when she thought about how Jacob managed to harm her so easily.
She had to get stronger, somehow. So that no one would doubt her strength, regardless of whether it was Vita standing right next to her while they fought or if she fought alone. Her hands clenched into fists as she started theorizing how to get stronger. She knew, somewhat, how to use a spear. She was here in the university to learn how to use soul-related magic, and the easiest type of this magic to learn would be magic that ether boosted her physical capabilities or to manipulate the elements. Knowing that doing things like Heracles, Beatrice and Earl won't work, Diana should try to learn the basics of elemental magic - or just learn to boost her physical body like how Odin does it.
But having her limbs grow to massive logs doesn't sound like anything she wants.
This turned into a bigger problem than what she had expected. But she genuinely didn't want to solely rely on Vita. At the current time, one of the bigger things she should continue working on was her spearmanship.
For now, Diana was starting her journey of self-improvement. And Vita was secretly sending out a tiny, but odd looking, beetle.
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As the distance between the two increased, the bug flew in whatever direction that didn't have any humans in it. The moonlight reflecting off its oily carapace as it flew over the roads and the occasional village. To anyone on the ground, it was nothing more than an odd dot passing by.
Finally, a large lake came into view. Different from the one that Rachel had her mansion next to, and much further away. This lake seemed to be one of those that old people and farmers liked fishing on. Too bad for them, Vita was going to experiment in this area and anyone who complained are going to get their bones turned to liquid. Other than that, the area was ripe with insects and freshwater fish. And probably other creatures or weird fucks, but Vita hasn't seen any yet with the eyes of a bug.
Alas, it was time. For experimenting! While flying towards the shore, the beetle grew and exploded into a fleshy mush before crash landing into the shallow waters with a splash, scaring some of the small aquatic creatures away. As the ball of flesh finally touched down onto the grimy, soggy dirt with a muffled pfv the wildlife slowly starting going about their ways. None of the creatures nearby wished to approach the odd piece of biomass, only ever getting close to it to get either a good look at it or a good whiff.
-Vita-
Ahahahahha, now we have secured a new land! For the Vita-land! Let us not be too hasty, let us simply enjoy the moment and look at some of the goodies we have attained but never used. Wouldn't make much sense for a fake wendigo to turn into a fish. While it would be funny, someone might get the bright idea to actually attack me and me if they found out about that.
Am I pretending to care about the humanoid Diana? Nuh-uh. It would get annoying so quick if I had to fight an army of bullshit powered humans. But having said that, seems like far away and larger amount of Vita-cells and the present amount of Vita-cells are connected. Somehow. Neat!
That being said and thought, let's test these DNA thingamabobs and see the effects. The interesting crustacean was, like, this, I think? Ok, it seems that it works, and it should be pretty solid, but the tension is insane on the sides of the reinforced bit. If I increase the tension, what happens?
-World-
One rather decently sized fish swam around the area where Vita landed. It was smart enough to know that the small clump of morphing flesh is not a normal thing to see, but it's also dumb enough that it's willing to ignore the morphing part of the fleshy thing. Meaning that it was looking at a piece of meat that was ripe for it to eat! It took its time strutting over, looking as smug as a generic fish could possibly look. Just as it was going to take a good taste-test and decide if eating it was good or not, a brownish-red piece shot out like a bullet with a strong enough force to boil the surrounding water and releasing a brief light.
The fish died. Its dead. While it probably isn't the first time something got shot and died in this world, it certainly is the first time it happened like it did here. And if the nearby creatures weren't scared before, they had surely escaped as quickly could.