Today I tried to use Solar Energy, but I wasn’t able to stay in the room long enough for me to actually try to. I kept feeling like I was going to die and getting all panicky, so every time I tried I had to leave pretty quickly. On the plus side as I did it more and more throughout the day it took longer and longer for me to start freaking out. I’m adjusting, just slowly.

I did learn something interesting though, unlike everyone that isn’t either a troll or a highly disciplined mage, I don’t radiate mana.

Most creatures lose a very small amount of mana over time, with mana based creatures losing a particularly large amount. Usually, this isn’t an issue as the vast majority of creatures are able to gather mana much faster than they lose it. In an environment that is completely devoid of mana, however, things change. Suddenly you have no mana intake and you are still losing mana just as fast, so you eventually run out. Flesh and bone creatures are greatly crippled while mana based creatures just die.

The mana that you lose, like all mana used in casting a spell, leaves your body and becomes ambient mana. The way it leaves your body varies based on the spell, but in general, that is pretty much how it works.

Not so much for me anymore, I still lose the same amount of mana over time as I otherwise would, but what happens to that mana changes. After some extensive testing I, with the help of the scholars, figured out that the vast majority of wasted mana I produce is being absorbed by my Dungeon core. Only spells that project mana away from my body aren’t affected, so trying to heal someone who is on the other side of the grove won’t be changed, but if I touch someone and heal them through that it is.

As for the utility this offers? For a normal person, even an incredibly skilled mage, pretty much nothing. It does have the side effect of making my dungeon core grow in power much faster than it would on its own, but that is a pretty minor benefit honestly. The real benefit has to do with Solar Energy.

It makes it much safer to work with Solar Energy. If I had tried to enter the Solar Energy room without being able to do that it would have exploded and I would have died. Which is terrifying considering how desperately I wanted it to use it. On top of that, I can now easily store a bunch of Solar Energy in a separate energy pool, something that would have killed me before.

Now all I need to do is get used to the sensation of mana deprivation I should be able to really learn how to use Solar Energy. I could wait until I have plenty of mana to spare, but that will take way to long.

Other than that it was a slow day, not much happened.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.