How to deal with Diana, that is the question!

After months of exploration and practice, Ethan had figured out many methods, and his control over certain attributes had even improved significantly during this time.

For example, precise temperature control of the fire attribute, freezing manipulation of the water attribute, fine control of lightning, and so on.

If he hadn't held onto his integrity at the critical moment and refrained from using arcane energy for special shaping operations, he would have almost joined the ranks of some Cthulhu-like deity.

However, such things always involved harming oneself while harming the enemy. Even if he enjoyed it both physically and mentally, he couldn't indulge endlessly.

"What? You seem unhappy?"

"Of course not!"

Ethan swore fiercely in his heart that when his physical fitness one day surpassed Diana's, he would definitely teach her a lesson and let her experience the awkwardness of a sore back and weak legs.

But for now... he should just focus on recovering.

After returning to the Prinz Eugen, Diana was very curious about the new ship. Led by Ethan, she first toured the most important areas.

After learning how to get to places like the mess hall, training room, and bridge, Diana went to set up her own room.

To everyone's surprise, Diana did not choose to stay in Ethan's room but requested a separate one. Because the rooms adjacent to Ethan's were already occupied, hers ended up a bit farther away.

Ethan wasn't surprised at all. That was Diana's personality. In her eyes, Ethan's room and her own couldn't be mixed, and she didn't think their current relationship was intimate enough to necessarily live together.

"This room will be mine from now on."

After inspecting the entire room, Diana was very satisfied with her new accommodation, and her words made it clear, even if she returned in the future, this room would still be hers and couldn't be given to anyone else.

This was her territory now.

Ethan readily agreed. He couldn't refuse anyway. There were plenty of rooms on the Prinz Eugen, and since he was very cautious about inviting teammates, he didn't know when he'd bring more people aboard next.

"Speaking of which, this new ship is much stronger than your previous Goddess of Dawn."

Naturally, they couldn't be compared. The Goddess of Dawn was just a sailing ship. Even with a lot of magic stone technology and a small crew that allowed Ethan to greatly expand the internal cabin space, the innate conditions of a sailing ship were still there. It could never compare to a steel warship with a displacement exceeding twenty thousand tons.

The fully stationary Prinz Eugen was almost imperceptibly stable, something a sailing ship couldn't achieve—unless it was carrying heavy cargo and sitting on a perfectly calm sea, but that would mean losing wind power...

"After all, they're not products of the same era. Besides, Tony has integrated technologies from multiple worlds into this ship."

Standing on the deck, feeling the sea breeze and the cool spray from the waves split by the bow, the speed of the Prinz Eugen while sailing was astonishing, and Diana showed a hint of surprise.

The current timeline in the DC Extended Universe was during the relatively peaceful period after the end of World War I and before the start of World War II, during which warships were an important symbol of a country's military strength.

To better understand everything about mortal humans, Diana had studied military equipment in detail. It was precisely because of this understanding that she was amazed by the warship beneath her feet.

Just the astonishing speed alone was enough to crush other powerful warships, not to mention that Ethan's ship wasn't just about speed.

Returning to the bridge from the deck, Diana gained a more detailed understanding of the Prinz Eugen through the holographic display.

"It's truly a very powerful warship."

Diana's enthusiasm for thermal weapons wasn't high. After understanding it, she stopped paying attention. No matter how magical the Prinz Eugen was, in her eyes, it was just a more comfortable place to live than the Goddess of Dawn, nothing more.

This left Tony speechless. He had wanted to show off the various strengths of the Prinz Eugen, hoping Diana would look at him with reverence and praise him profusely.

It wasn't that he had any thoughts about Diana. He just enjoyed the admiration and compliments of others.

"We'll be sailing for a while now. Then we'll head to Arthur's place. Besides that, do you have any other plans? Like going to some world to find treasures or something?"

"Not for now."

As his strength had reached its current level, Ethan was also thinking about which other worlds might be worth exploring next.

Currently, it seemed his strength was still steadily increasing. He hadn't encountered a so-called bottleneck yet. He could continue training step by step, but the rate of his strength improvement had noticeably slowed.

If it were before, he wouldn't have cared. Slower was slower. It gave him time to think about how to proceed.

But after being repeatedly "stimulated" by Diana, he felt it was necessary to work harder.

Since the growth rate of magic power couldn't be accelerated and could only be improved gradually through diligent effort, he could focus on two aspects: attribute understanding and physical fitness.

Physical fitness went without saying. Improvements in physical strength not only enhanced close combat ability but also made the body more resistant to energy, allowing for higher output power when casting spells or faster casting speed.

Attribute understanding, on the other hand, could help his envisioned magic universe take shape sooner... The magic universe was still far off. Let's start with condensing a planet.

"Seems I need to first condense my mental power?"

Through continuous training and study, Ethan had already gained some clues. His current mental sea was a plane. To turn it into a planet, he had to first transform this sea into a sphere.

There were many problems to solve to achieve this, but he had no one to ask. How to do it was entirely up to him to figure out.

The problem he needed to solve now was how to contract his mental power into a core so that the magic power, which originally floated above the mental land, would naturally gather into a spherical shape, enclosing the mental power within.

It sounded simple, but this action was equivalent to performing surgery on his own mental world. It wasn't easy to achieve, and Ethan had already failed several times.

He hadn't yet found the reason for these failures either.

"Perhaps my mental power isn't strong enough yet?"

Theoretically, he didn't need to rush. As long as the magic sea became deeper, he could envelop all his mental power even without contracting it. However, he vaguely felt that doing so wouldn't benefit him in the long term. If he could prioritize this major restructuring of his mental world in his current state, creating a magic planet or even a star in the future would go much smoother.

Based on this intuition, after returning to the Prinz Eugen, Ethan spent less time with Diana and began to focus on his own training.

Perhaps the captain's attitude influenced everyone, but all the crew members on the ship were working hard on their training. Most of them had just completed their second transformation and were starting to think about how they should proceed on their individual paths.

Logan and Selene naturally didn't need to worry. Selene was still diligently training in Holy Light and Shadow energy. She had already learned most of the Priest skills, but she didn't look like a Priest at all. She looked more like a Death Walker who used Holy Light and Shadow magic.

Logan's Druid path still hadn't made much progress, but the abilities he had already mastered were becoming increasingly proficient, and he could even use certain abilities without the opponent noticing.

Imhotep and Anck-su-namun continued to diligently train—or rather, perfect—their divine magic related to Ethan. They were trying to establish a fixed connection with the Holy Light cross in Ethan's hand so that they could borrow energy from the cross in addition to using their own magic power.

O'Connell and the others hadn't decided which path to choose yet. Ada's performance was the strangest. She had been working hard to learn all kinds of knowledge. If you didn't know better, you'd think this spy was preparing to switch careers to become a scholar.

Only Diana, who had been paying attention to Ada, noticed that Ada hadn't chosen nothing. In fact, she had almost studied all the training materials collected on the Prinz Eugen.

When everyone else found it difficult to even study one path well, this woman had actually chosen a hellish learning mode. This made Diana's impression of Ada change slightly. The woman Ethan had personally invited aboard wasn't just a pretty face, at the very least, she had enough ambition, though whether her talent matched was still unknown.

Perhaps pointing out Ethan's flight made Diana enjoy the feeling, so when she saw Ada frowning in thought, she took the initiative to walk over and offer a few pointers.

"Learning too much at once can easily lead to confusion. I think you can focus on one aspect first and then expand into other branches from that main trunk. Otherwise, the conflict between different energy systems alone could cost you your life."

Ada glanced at Diana beside her, not expecting her to suddenly offer guidance.

"I know it's not easy to learn knowledge from too many different systems at once, so I'm only studying theoretical knowledge right now and haven't casually made practical attempts." Ada shook her head. "Even just the theoretical knowledge is already giving me a headache."

She wasn't just skimming through. She wanted to truly understand the knowledge, so of course it was exhausting to study. Let alone Ada— even Diana would struggle to digest that much information all at once.

"So, have you thought about which one you'll mainly practice?"

"I'm a very greedy person and find all these abilities very interesting, so I might pick out the ones I'm interested in and then master all of them."

(To be continued.)