It took surprisingly long to fully absorb the knowledge I gained last night. I had to do it slowly and deliberately so as to not lose anything.

I also didn’t ask about healing my arm, I asked for something a little more broad. From what I understand fixing my arm is on a fundamental level something that can’t be fixed by traditional healing. The only other option is creation on a more fundamental level than just growing back a limb, I have to create a new one from scratch. So what I asked for was knowledge about the design and creation of mana based creatures. And that's what i received.

This is where I encountered my problem. See, the soul piece can’t give me skills. If i ask it for ‘how to use a sword’ I would know all of the information required, but i wouldn’t be able to put it into practice without just that, practice. If I have that practice it can make me an amazing swordsman. and that’s great and all for swinging a sword. But, for something like creating a mana base creature, which is basically what i need to do to fix my arm, I would either need to create one, something that would require external mana manipulation on such a fine level that it would take centuries for me to even get close, to practice on a living creature.

I can’t practice on myself because i will definitely mess something up that I won’t know how to fix. worse case scenario is I die incredibly painful, and that doesn’t look too unlikely.

I can’t practice on a corpse or an undead because mana based creatures don’t leave corpses.

And I won’t practice on a living creature for the same reasons I won’t practice on myself. Regardless of how I look at it mercilessly torturing a creature, no matter how guilty, is objectively a bad thing, a line I should not cross. And if I try to practice on a living creature they will die, most likely in a painful and gruesome way. It’s flesh manipulation all over again, only without the hope that a friendly necromancer will help me out, or even a less than friendly necromancer that we can pay.

It’s not all bad though. As a result of this I might be the best healer in the world, at least in regards to healing mana based creatures and assuming you ignore dungeons and Origin. Well, I mean a creature with much better access to mana than me and a much better understanding of how healing as a whole works would be able to do better than me, or even one with enough mana and a strong enough desire to heal. Actually now that I think about it there are a lot of aspects to healing, I’ve just mastered one of them with help from the Origin from before.

Now I’m seriously tempted to ask about other aspects of healing. Maybe I’ll ask the same question, only about flesh and bone creatures instead. Who knows, maybe I will be able to advance my healing far enough that I’ll be able to do Necromancy on my own.

I ended up spending most of the day meeting with important people of the community. Most of it was just general attempts to improve morale, but a couple of them were interesting. The first one was a Greater Goblin that evolved into a lesser Orc, something we haven’t seen around here before. He was one of Thes’s more skilled disciples. And while he wasn’t a particularly good conversationalist the fact that he exists is objectively a good thing.

The second was one of Bug’s children, may his soul find fulfillment in another life. This child of his was the same one he told me about before, the healer that desires a more martial path. The most obvious change was the wings. She could now fly, and though she wasn’t very good at it that was obviously due to a lack of practice and not a lack of talent. She evolved into a further variant of Dragonewt, and Winged Dragonewt Saint. Honestly the name is kind of lackluster and literal, but that doesn’t detract from the spectacle any.

Her natural talent in healing supersedes even that of the greatest of my children. And once she gets a hang of flying she will have some of the best maneuverability of anyone here, other than myself but that is limited to my grove, and a couple people that specialize in that.

Other than meetings I didn’t have time for much else. I made sure to patch up any remaining wounds Willow and several other mana based creatures had, just to put my new knowledge to work. To really cement it in my mind.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.