This morning, over breakfast, I told Mest about the Solar Energy spell I learned recently, I even demonstrated it for him by turning a fist-sized rock green. He commented that the way it was formed was remarkably similar to the tradition of magic he had been taught. One thing led to another and now I am learning magical theory from Mest, even if more practical skills are beyond me learning the theory behind magic should make me better at using Solar Energy.

Honestly, the only reason I’m doing it is that I really want to improve at Solar Energy magic, but there is a pretty tight cap on how much I can do in a day. Hopefully, learning theory will let me improve faster despite that cap, though it would likely be much more effective if I had the resources to do both at once.

Honestly, a lot of the information is boring, though not particularly tedious. But I have done more mind-numbing tasks for the sake of my projects, spending days refining Astrie comes to mind.

Now that I think about it, learning magic theory should help me with using Spell Wood, right?

Back on topic, it wasn’t like I could just memorize theory either, that would be mostly useless for my purposes, it is difficult to pull up a memory when you are pouring everything you have into creating or reworking a spell. No, I have to learn it by heart for it to be truly useful, I have to be able to call up the information as soon as it is relevant, or at least that is the way Mest says it.

Honestly, I have no gift for things like this, and on its own the information is rather useless to me. And if I had the resources I would never have even bothered with this, the trial and error method, while much more dangerous, is much faster and more interesting. On top of that, there is no guarantee that this information is even useful in the context of Solar Energy magic.

But, I will stick it out for a week at least, longer if I have a noticeable improvement even if only minor. Naturally, I will be exclusively releasing my Fate while using Solar Energy for the foreseeable future.

I spent most of the day learning under Mest, and I got the impression that he loved teaching me. I like to think that I am an eager student despite my misgivings.

Once everyone went to bed I stayed up for a little bit longer just to grow my forest out a bit, it feels wrong not to do at least a bit every day.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.