Today I started working on the reproductive organs. For some reason, this part was super embarrassing for me. I also faced another dilemma, what sex should I make the Ent? Ultimately I decided I would make two Ents, one male, one female, male today, female tomorrow. The Reproductive organs are different enough that it should increase the total amount of time I spend on this project by about a day, but once I have those more or less complete I could work on improving everything, working out problems that won’t show themselves until I have everything working together.

I was curious about something, specifically exactly how biology assists with magic. Naturally, I asked Mest about it. He actually had a collection of transcribed notes on the subject, he said he thought it might help him figure out how a dungeon controls its creatures, it didn’t.

Reading it through most of the concepts went over my head, and even according to the notes most of the effects were negligible, but a couple things were simple enough that I could understand them well enough to put into practice. One thing in particular caught my eye, an organ, or organ system depended on the particular set of notes on it, unique to demon species that are heavily focused on magic. The naming of it conflicted quite a bit between different notes on it, something that is pretty common in these notes at least. The organ improves how quickly the creature pulls in mana, uses the mana they pulled in, and has a minor bonus to how well mana can be used. It functions almost identical to the heart, only with mana instead of blood, so i’m going to call it a mana heart. I feel like I understand it well enough to implement it in the Ent, that along with several other minor improvements, all that should make the Ent a very capable mage. Naturally, this will take time, but that hardly matters, it shouldn’t throw my projected schedule off too much.

With his permission, I examined Mest’s body using my healing magic and confirmed that he does indeed have a mana heart. Naturally, i took advantage of the situation to fully examine the heart inside and out. That should make it super easy to replicate it with wood, though not just any wood, I will have to modify Astrie to make it usable for this project. I might even end up using Astrie for the entire finished product. I can’t use it for much experimentation because it costs exponentially more mana than less magical woods, but with some modifications, in various ways, Astrie could be ideal for creating new life.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.