I spent most of my time today working on refining the Sunflower. It is going exactly as well as I would expect it to. It is the second most complicated plant I have ever worked on, after luck blossom, and as such I expect it to take a while. I am more skilled in plant manipulation than it’s creator, but it’s creator obviously had several orders of magnitude more mana than I have access too. So it isn’t hard, it’s just that there is a lot to do.

A necromancer showed up in town today. Apparently, he is incredibly talented, though he isn’t affiliated with the scholars. He is young, a bit younger than myself, and as such relatively inexperienced. He is a lesser angel, which are rare around these parts. He is tall and a bit lanky with black hair and slightly sunken in dark brown eyes, and generally gaunt in appearance. Though I’m pretty sure that last part is due to the side effects of the necrotic version of healing.

We talked and I enjoyed talking to him, he was rather charming. Overall his presence is off-putting to most, a side effect of his gaunt appearance and having a partially carved out soul, like all necromancers. But the first is easily fixed with some good food and the non-necrotic version of healing, while the second is something I have personally experienced so it doesn’t bother me.

Anyway, he agreed to help me out with ending the single longest pause I have ever put on a project in exchange for free room and board as well as some test subjects, all of which are easy for us to provide.

Now I have so many things I want to work on.

Perfecting the Sunflower, mastering Solar Energy healing and plant manipulation, finally learning how to manipulate flesh without murdering or torturing anyone, fully assimilating the knowledge I gained from the piece of soul I have, and getting more knowledge from the piece of soul I have.

All of these directly relate to healing magic.

Now the question is figuring out what order I need to do these in. All of them require a lot of time but not much mana, with the exception of maybe flesh manipulation which might take a lot of mana, so regardless of what I do I should be able to also feed my grove quite a bit.

I think practicing with Solar Energy if fine to put off for a while, waiting will only make it easier to train later, the more energy there the faster I can make mistakes and the faster I figure out what works. The same goes for the sunflower, as it is more or less just a vessel to facilitate Solar Energy.

I have been waiting so long for this opportunity and I want to get the most out of it that I can. So what I am going to do is fully assimilate the knowledge I gained, which I can do in about two days if actively working on it, or two weeks otherwise. After that I will ask for the same knowledge about flesh and bone creatures before starting trying to learn flesh manipulation, as flesh manipulation should help me assimilate that knowledge quickly, making me better at shaping flesh and molding bone, and healing as a whole.

Now that I think about it, isn’t what I am attempting to learn basically necromancy through healing? I know it is possible, and I know necromancers have their own form of healing, I might be able to help the necromancer boy out with that. I should really learn his name.

Other than that nothing quite as exciting happened today. I am giddy and excited, which is fine because I don’t need to sleep tonight. I should have to sleep tomorrow though, so we will see what I get then from Fate.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.