I managed to make Astrie not explode for a full second today, which was exactly what I was trying to do. I figure the best way to refine Astrie is to attempt to use it as a spell, do that over and over again while refining it a little each time and I will eventually trigger it to evolve. Yeah there are some obvious things that I could change to make it easier to start off, but most of my projects are a lot of trial and error, this one just has a bit more trial.

I talked with Mest a lot today. He is definitely useful in helping me learn how to use Astrie as a proxy for magic. He took a personal interest in this project, he says that if I can learn how to use it well enough there is all sorts of stuff I could do with this. The main one he talked about was teleportation, particularly permanent teleportation gates. Honestly, that doesn’t really interest me all that much, but Mest was really excited for it. Supposedly making things like that was incredibly difficult, even when all the ins and outs were thoroughly documented and easily accessed. If I manage to succeed in making Astrie evolve other plant manipulators might be able to make similar items more reliably, and while plants manipulators, in general, are rare, they are nowhere near as rare as people able to make teleportation gates and similar objects. Though manipulators of my skill and power are much rarer.

According to Mest that would be a major step forward for his order, something they have been trying to achieve for decades but haven’t managed to figure out. They would be able to do research on a scale that was impossible before, at least in some fields, discovering and confirming things that before they could only guess at. And I really don’t care about that kind of thing, but I would be willing to part with some of it as a favor to a good friend, assuming I actually succeed in making Astrie evolve that is.

Other than that I didn’t do much today. I’ve made some pretty good progress on the sleep aid, bringing the amount of time I need to sleep down from five hours to four, though progress on that is slowing down a lot.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.