Today I worked mostly on refining Astrie, but I did experiment with it a little.

The first thing I noticed is that Astrie has become much easier to use. Which isn’t saying much as it was already pretty easy to use. Refining it isn’t going to make it more powerful or anything like that, well I mean it will but it’s not like I can make use of the vast majority of that power up. After all, the limit was never the Astrie but rather my own ability to endure the side effects. Though I am able to use it without specializing it better, but that has more to do with my newfound knowledge of the plant than its own refinement.

Basically, it isn’t going to become more useful until either I get much more powerful, not happening anytime soon, or it evolves.

One interesting thing I did today was boost my walking ability with Astrie. It wasn’t something I had considered doing before because it didn’t seem all that useful. After a couple tests I decided to crank it up as high as I could safely go, and the results were spectacular.

While standing in the middle of my grove I took a single step and was on the outer edge. I took another step back towards my grove and ended up on the other edge. After some experimentation I figured out that I could control exactly where I moved incredibly well, even moving through obstacles I can’t normally move through, like people. Though I was unable to walk through completely solid objects, like the cliff face. What was even better was that this was as easy as taking a light stroll.

When I gave the armor to some Goblins they had similar results, though they were actually able to go slightly farther than I was. I guess the border of my grove functions as some sort of boundary for me. They could not, however, control where they went quite as well.

With the more refined Astrie I am now able to make simple armors like this in the time it takes me to snap my fingers, I can now essentially teleport anywhere in my grove at will. That is a power I would have obtained as my dungeon core matured, but this way I’m getting it years earlier.

This event made Mest really curious, he said that he had to know what was going on here as something like that shouldn’t be possible with what I was trying to do. He told me he would try to ask around to see if anyone knew.

I am looking forward to hearing his report.