Today I learned about actual practical applications for using the soul, or at least active applications as it does quite a bit passively. Today we mostly went over ways to give yourself temporary buffs using the outer shell of the soul to power them. Like mana using these spells doesn’t actually consume the soul energy involved, but unlike mana the soul energy does not leave your soul at any time, meaning you can keep casting these spells over and over again without risk of running out of energy, assuming you have enough energy that isn’t tied up in other spells that is.

Casting these spells also works to exercise the soul in the same way I have been doing, though not quite as effectively. And now that I look at it the exercise I have been doing is just one of these spells that is designed to burn through itself quickly. And with how simple it is to cast you are able to do it over and over again very rapidly.

It is possible to make these spells more or less permanent, but I have been thoroughly warned against doing that until I have more or less mastered the use of the soul as they are very hard to non-destructively pick apart once cast, effectively locking me into to whatever spell I cast until I can somehow remove it. Plus there are other things to do with the soul that uses up that same energy that is being hogged by the spell.

I also noticed that my soul is, I guess changing color would be the closest description but it isn’t quite accurate. As far as I can tell soul energy has no actual color. Regardless when I told the older dungeon that he just said ‘good, that’s supposed to happen’ and then refused to comment further. I’m pretty sure he did that mostly to irritate me, but whatever, as long as he is teaching me he will find that I’m hard to irritate.

I bought Azrezel chocolates today, really chocolate apparently, though I can’t tell the difference. Based on the fact that all of them were gone within a minute I would say that he liked them. He also made me a necklace, I could tell at first glance that it was made out of shaped bone, even the actual chain was made out of specially grown pieces of bone. It was very pretty, and incredibly intricate, though it seemed to be stylized in a way I wouldn’t have expected from Azrezel, with a lot of curves and pieces looping back in on themselves and the greater whole and a whole bunch of other small details, in addition to a rather sizeable gemstone in the center. I quickly found out, however, that it was actually a kind of enchantment on the necklace, or rather the necklace itself was wholly dedicated to the enchantment. He didn’t really design it, he doesn’t have the skills for that. Instead, he paid the guy that has been teaching people enchanting to do that. Apparently, that guy decided to stick around when we built the school.

The enchantment is a sort of protection enchantment, somehow dissipating hostile magics. It seems to work by absorbing some mana from spells, though how it does that I have no idea. But it will continue to work so long as the structure isn’t damaged and the gemstone at the center has room for more mana.

It’s a nice gift, I’ll definitely be wearing it from here on out. My own gift feels a bit lackluster compared to his.

I wonder if there are any plants with a similar effect, something like that would be really useful and would work well with Null. Could I maybe make something like that using Null? I’m not sure, but it’s possible.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.