This morning Thes ran off to the nearby dungeon, something I didn’t find out until after the fact. Apparently, he got to the point where he needed to let off some steam or risk snapping at a bad time.

The dungeon is completely levelled, there is nothing left. We can’t use it to train and gather resources any more, but we have temporarily averted disaster. We should be good for a couple months before Thes snaps again.

It sucks that we had to sacrifice the dungeon though. We didn’t even get the core back. It’s still there, buried under a mountain of rubble. I mean it’s possible the core of the dungeon survived, but even if it did it will be years before it actually gets to the point where it is usable. Especially because I doubt anyone will be visiting it in a long while, limiting its mana production to what it naturally produces, which is minuscule, and what it can gather from the ambient mana.

You know, maybe I could offer a donation of mana to the dungeon. I’ve recently found that I can absorb the mana berries practically at will as long as they are within my Grove and no one is carrying them around, no idea why that limits me but I haven’t figured out a workaround quite yet. The same probably holds true to other dungeons, as I’m almost certain my dungeon core is the cause of that effect.

I have quite a few Mana berries stored up that I don’t really do much with, especially now that spring is here and the bushes are producing them in mass. Yeah, the alchemists use them a lot, but other than that there isn’t a lot of use for them beyond a quick pick-me-up from time to time.

So my idea is first to have Mest go confirm that the dungeon is actually alive, which is well within his powers, and then send a group to basically dig a really deep hole within that dungeon’s territory and drop in a bunch of the berries before burying them. I did a test to make sure that wouldn’t interfere with absorbing them. We should be able to do it tomorrow though I doubt we will see much in the way of results for several months, which is fine, I’m patient. A usable dungeon a couple months from now is better than no usable dungeon.

I’ll ask about it tomorrow, though I doubt there will be many problems with this.

As for what I did today, I mostly worked on my attempt at Ironwood. Though at this point I am almost certain what I have is much better than Ironwood ever was. Despite that, I am nowhere near my limit with this plant, and the more I can get it to evolve the better.

I do like the subtle shade of blue it is turning though, it’s rather pretty. Even more so because I haven’t touched the colouration, that’s all natural.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.