Azrezel was perfectly willing to help me out with a book on necromancy, but he also was more than a little confused about my reasoning for making it. Is the idea of spreading knowledge to one day get the same in return such an alien idea? I mean immortality is common enough, any healer worth their salt is capable of living long enough to profit off of that kind of exchange. And that is just the lowest hanging fruit.

Alchemists are also great at fixing old age, healing potions are some of the first ones any alchemist makes and even a novice can make one good enough to take a couple of years off if they have the right ingredients. Those ingredients are really hard to get ahold of in most places, true, but that doesn't change the fact that alchemy is another quick and easy path to immortality. The knowledge I gained from writing a book with Tiddol is already showing through.

Necromancy is another easy path to immortality, for fairly obvious reasons. And for similar reasons many other types of magic have a simple method to live forever, become what you manipulate. Few actually do that, but it is a logical step for many people, especially those that are dying. Similar to what happened with Tiddol.

And that non-exhaustive list doesn't even include things that can dramatically extend your lifespan, like cultivating or any other type of body-centric stuff. It doesn't even have to be magical as just training your body like that will cause mana to form the right shapes to keep you fit and healthy long after you would otherwise have fallen to the ravages of time.

And you don't even need that really. Some of the people who worship me, especially my paladins, are already turning back the clock thanks to the more magical effects of their zeal. In all but the most extreme cases it isn't quite enough to become immortal, but the potential is there. Simply wanting or believing in something enough will grant you immortality.

Simply having an acquaintance that is a skilled healer is enough to fend off old age, and all of my friends are capable of living for a very long time even without my help. So why don't people think to try to spread knowledge amongst the masses in an attempt to have your own knowledge be pushed up by those masses? Even the scholars don't think like that, or at least the ones I've talked too. They teach their students primarily out of obligation, not for any desire to learn from them. Although it is quite likely that their leaderships thinks like that as some of their behavior doesn't make sense otherwise. Their motto is supposed to be 'knowledge at all costs' I feel like this should have been a fairly obvious step for them. But no, many of them think that the idea is crazy, that the ones who deserve to know are the ones willing to put in the effort to learn.

This is really irritating me now, I want to fix this. I want to do everything I can to undermine that mentality. I am officially a member of their order, and a well respected one, or so I've been told. I wonder how I can use that to sway their opinion to my view. It could take years for these books to pay off, so that isn't really a viable option until then. Maybe I could invite some of the leadership of the scholars to my home to talk with them? It seems like the best option for now, so I think I will write them a letter.

I ended up spending my downtime going around and asking people about this, so I didn't exactly have a lot of time for other things.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.