Today I managed to get a piece of Sunflower to evolve. It is still nowhere near where I need it to be, but this is a solid step in the right direction. I think it will take me about eight to ten days before I get to the point where I can’t improve it through simple refining. I don’t think I’ll stumble across a way to improve my speed anytime soon, though stranger things have happened.

I spent most of my freetime today with Azrezel. We were testing out the newly evolved undead, see what exactly had changed. In short, not much. It wasn’t exactly the most stunning of evolutions. It was improved in every way, but it wasn’t improved by a large margin. Basically the equivalent of going from a goblin to a greater goblin.

It makes sense, I messed up quite a bit when I was fixing it up. It doesn’t matter how perfect your knowledge of a subject is, if you have never done it before you are going to make mistakes. And most of the time I spent working on the undead was spent trying to figure out how to fix my mistakes. I could probably get another one to evolve after two days of dedicated work.

I think I am going to split up my time between working on Solar Energy and working with Azrezel on Flesh Manipulation. Everything will take twice as long as expected like this, but I really don’t think I can decide between working on one or the other right now. Both projects take a lot of time, though neither takes much mana.

Naturally I haven’t been letting my mana pool just sit there doing nothing, I have been using it to grow my grove. It is easily ten times as large as it was at the beginning of this year, and it is growing faster and faster. The cliff that I got up to early on in the development of my Grove, the one the hot spring turned mini dungeon, well it turns out that it is connected to a mountain. It is pretty hard to tell from the limited vantage point that I had, and no one really talks about it. It isn’t a mountain chain, just a single mountain with a single, rather large, sheer cliff face. The mountain is now completely surrounded by my Grove and some limited mining has begun, though nothing interesting has been found yet.

The trees are a little stressed out by this rapid expansion, and that does decrease the amount of mana I get from each tree, but they’ll get used to it. It is nothing harmful they will adapt, in fact many of the older trees are encouraging this rapid growth.

Other than that the fight got really close to my grove today. This made many of my trees scared, which made me angry, which made my trees even angrier, which definitely didn’t make me any less angry. This viciously repeating cycle eventually caught the eye of the fighters, or at least I think it did because they both kind of started heading in a different direction, that did make me less angry.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.