So I have decided to finish up with my current project before moving on. It should only be two or three days until I finish it anyway.

Having to wait is agonizing, turning mana into Solar Energy has so much potential. I’ve had Solar Energy since I’ve evolved but I haven’t been able to do anything with it simply because I haven’t had enough of it to do anything. So while I know Solar Energy has potential I don’t know what that potential is, well I know a little bit but not nearly enough to say much about it.

What I can say is that Solar Energy feels a lot more volatile than Mana, and that Solar Energy feels a lot more creative than mana. Mana is also a lot more slippery than Solar Energy, what I mean by that is if I use Mana for something I always lose that mana. There are ways to recover lost mana from spells and the like, but that requires external mana manipulation, which I am still fundamentally terrible at. Solar Energy, on the other hand, is incredibly easy to reclaim, as long as the energy wasn’t destroyed in the spell I can reclaim nearly all of it. Of course, it is nearly always destroyed during the spell, by the ambient mana if nothing else.

Honestly, my grove is a terrible environment for using Solar Energy, way more Ambient mana than the average. Now that I think about it, couldn’t I plant some Mana Berries around the area I work with Solar Energy? I am pretty sure that if I do it right I could almost completely seal the area off from mana, at least until winter. If I were to ramp up the plants natural mana gathering abilities beyond what I already have then I should be able to move the mana elsewhere, especially If I combine it with Astrie to function as a kind of pipeline. Basically, create an area of super low mana density and an area of super high mana density. I’m sure our local mages would like a practice ground like that.

I wonder if that would mess with the mana I get from the trees. I hope not, then I wouldn’t be able to use it for more than a couple hours without starting to starve. When I was a sprite I could have gone days, now not so much. Even if the worst happens I will still survive, my dungeon core produces mana at a flat rate, which should keep me alive in a weakened state, possibly forever.

It’s odd, thinking that if the worst happens and I’m trapped out in space or something where there is no mana I will still continue to live whether or not I want to, at that point I doubt I will be in any condition to cast spells.

Also, the amount of mana my core produces is tied to its age, so eventually I would be getting enough mana to maintain my body at its peak just from my core.

Other than my slightly morbid musings not a lot happened.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.