My Apprentices are continuing to dissect and study the bodies I have prepared for them. Once they are done with it I might even make this place automated and open it up to the general public, a place where any healer can come and learn a thing or two about anatomy. Might need to expand it a lot, and allow for a way to update and expand it, but that will have to wait until my apprentices have gotten their use out of it.

We came across a small cavern during our digging. It was apparently filled with poisonous gasses, I don’t need to breathe so it wasn’t an issue for me, but most of the people assisting in were made of flesh and bone and as such did. Ultimately it delayed us quite a bit as we had to figure out how to get rid of all of that gas without poisoning anyone, or at least not poisoning anyone too much. Ultimately we had a couple air manipulators come in and bottle the stuff to take to our alchemists to destroy. It took almost all day because we don’t really have any air manipulators, the vast majority of them are just using Whitelock.

A group of wielders of nuclear fire showed up today to get some of the waste from their magic disposed of so I told them about what I found underground and asked them what I should do with it. Apparently, it is the similar stuff that they are bringing me to destroy so they helped me to extract it and turn it into a form that is easier to destroy. They seemed to be impressed by the glass caverns I was making, which is nice.

Emericus approached me today and asked me for some Solar Energy. Apparently, he lost all of his when he died and isn’t able to make more without already having some. I offered to put the same device I use to create the stuff inside of him, but he rejected my offer on the grounds that it would require mana to operate. So instead I made him an external version, only for him to freak out when I told him what it was. He seemed very scared of me when he realized that I have that device inside of my chest. To hear him say it he has had friends who have violently exploded due to a momentary lapse of mental faculties thanks to mana rushing in and interacting with the Solar Energy inside of them.

It took me a while to explain to him that it was completely safe and that it would take an act of active sabotage to cause it to explode. And even that wouldn’t do a lot of it was outside of him as the amount of Solar Energy inside of the device at any given time would be pretty small, hardly enough to hurt someone like him. I mean the stuff I have inside myself could absolutely cause a lot of damage, but I can easily build one that is nowhere near as dangerous.

After that, we had a long discussion about Solar Energy. We touched on topics like why I call it Solar Energy instead of Ki, or one of the other similarly pronounced words. Apparently, it is incredibly rare to use the suns as a method to gather Solar Energy because the amount of the stuff they throw off is so small as to be irrelevant unless you can find a place where there are two of them in the sky. Which I suppose makes sense, there are other ways to get ahold of Solar Energy, most of the ones I know of are much more effective than using the Suns.

He was also fascinated by the fact that I, a mana based creature, could safely use Solar Energy. Most cultivators rely on the whole repelling mana thing in order to keep themselves safe from mana and people that try to wield both Solar Energy and mana end up dead unless they give up one or the other. He was fascinated, and a bit scared, when I demonstrated my ability to keep Solar Energy from interacting with ambient mana by having it move really fast, and was suitably impressed when I demonstrated what happens when I intentionally stop a bit of it. He was similarly impressed when I demonstrated how much control over the stuff my last evolution and my artificially expanded mind gives me. Showing off like that to one of the best in the world was fun, a lot of fun.

I also learned quite a bit about Solar Energy. He isn’t a true immortal for nothing, he knows more about the stuff than I possibly could, he’s reached the pinnacle of power relying solely on Solar Energy. Like ways to temporarily and dramatically improve my own endurance and strength, or a couple better methods of manipulating Solar Energy inside of someone else. The first one I don’t expect to be too useful, but the second will be very useful in healing. He also taught me how to use Solar Energy to repel mana, which turned out to be similar to the structure of my Solar Energy pool, only less efficient and able to scale upwards a lot better. Not something I will ever use as it is way too effective, and I am kinda made of mana so it would probably kill me. Still, it is interesting to know.

Towards the end of our conversation, Emericus asked me to teach him how to use Solar Energy without having to worry about mana. I told him that if you can keep Solar Energy moving fast enough then it can’t interact with mana, and that I am capable of healing him if he hurts himself while trying to figure things out. Though it doesn’t seem like anyone else would really be able to heal him as it takes Solar Energy to properly heal someone improved as heavily by the stuff as Emericus has been.

We ended the conversation with me giving a demonstration on what he is supposed to be aiming for in addition to giving him an external copy of the Solar Energy making device.

As I couldn’t really do anything in the caverns today I ended up spending time with everyone, though I spent most of it with my dad because we haven't hung out much recently. This time we talked a lot about teaching, mostly because I’ve been doing a lot of that recently and I was wondering what he knew about the subject. He told me stories about times where he was the teacher, like times when he trained a bunch of peasants in order to hold off an army long enough for reinforcements to arrive, focusing a lot on the actual teaching than the rest of the story, or times where he had particularly noteworthy teachers.

At one point during our conversation someone showed up to talk to my dad, someone I recognized as the leader of one of the city-states that joined us willingly. Apparently, my dad was the one to get him his position in one of his adventures long before I was born, a story I remember him telling me. Something about starting a revolution, there were a couple of those stories.

Anyway, the guy came to visit an old friend so I let them talk and hang out without interrupting them.

After that, I played some board games with Azrezel and Tiddol. Most of the games we played were cooperative, more than one of them obviously inspired by some of the adventures my dad has told me about, one of them even had ‘Eric Kron’ on the cover of the box. It’s still weird seeing how famous my dad is, I know logically he’s the single most famous adventurer of a generation, but he’s still my dad. It catches me off guard every time.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.