I made about as much progress as I was expecting to today, maybe a bit more.

The undead we are working on now is a rather fat ex-Angelic ghoul that is a bit more intact than the last one. The fat isn’t actual fat, but rather some bloating from the organs breaking down, in life the guy was probably rather skinny. It is my job to fix that, among other things.

Tiddol got sick today. She had one of her experimental potions blow up in her face and got unlucky the other day. Now she is bedridden, though luckily it isn’t contagious. I tried asking about what it takes to cure a sickness, basically, you need to unravel the spell causing the symptoms manually, something that requires external mana manipulation. Not exactly something I will be able to do any time soon, though maybe I will find a way around it.

After thinking about it for a while I realized a couple things. The first is that Origin came into existence basically the same way people get sick today, ambient mana randomly forming a viable shape. The thing that is killing the Origin today is the fact that ambient mana is getting to the point where it is denser than the mana in their bodies. So why can’t we kill the spell causing the sickness the same way?

Well, it has already been tried. It does work, but it is risky. In order to pull it off successfully you need tons of mana available to you, pretty much only the best arch-mages have that kind of mana. It isn’t absolutely necessary to have that much, but messing it up and using too little will make everything much worse every time. The sickness absorbs the mana, if it doesn’t then you messed up at step one, and always lasts much longer than it would have before. Sometimes it actually causes the sickness to change, possibly making it more dangerous and, on more than one occasion, contagious. So yeah, trying to burn sickness out is a fool's errand.

Tiddol should be fine in a day or two. It is painful but doesn’t do much other than cause pain. With the help of some Flore, the pain wasn’t an issue at all, though she did end up sleeping all day.

Other than that not a lot happened.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.