Since the lake incident, Dimitri decided to map and take note of everything to not come across such undesirable moments. The landscape and entities he comes across. Using dust made from a chalk like rock and the juice of berries Mila brought to him. The skin of wolves were the material he wrote on and a stick was his writing utensil.
Dimitri sketched out the layout of the cave he's seen so far. Sadly, he could not sketch off the memory he has of the forest because he does not know how far he is from the area he passed out at.
He's had to recover from his injury as Mila ventured through the cave on her lonesome. When Mila is gone, Dimitri works out. While he shouldn't push his body to commit aerobic exercises, standing still made him feel discontent. Mila is growing in strength by the day. Dimitri has to play catch up because of this. Laid down, he rose his injured leg until he made a right angle with his legs then lowered them. Continuing this process again and again.
It was a slow work out but a workout nonetheless. Helping his flexibility, it was pretty helpful. But alas, it wasn't enough. He couldn't commit to an extraneous workout because of his injuries which hindered his true progression.
As he was doing side leg raises, a notification appeared.
"Right, the A.T.S." It continued to spread pop-ups amongst his sight.
The notifications all had one thing in common. But Dimitri piecing that together was another issue.
"You can absorb monster Mana?"
He accepted the lesson.
In one of his Wolf Skin notebooks, he started writing down the nature of monster Mana using the guide presented by the A.T.S. He sketched the anatomy of a mana crystal based on his findings within the wolves.
"It seems like not all monsters have Mana crystals. I guess that's why I didn't find any in the corpses of those goblins." There were plenty Mana crystals lying in a pile because of Mila's obsession with wolf meat.
"So meditation?"
He's run into a problem. "I can't complete the lesson if I can't manipulate energy. That's troublesome."
So he accepted another lesson.
"That explains why I haven't gotten stronger just from the Negative Energy In my body. I haven't done anything malevolent as of yet."