Today I finished refining sunflower. I spent nearly the whole day on this final stretch.

After that, it took me about a minute to create a Solar Energy version. And it only took a moment to integrate them into my body in a way that would let me easily create both mana and solar energy. It isn’t perfectly efficient, but I can and will tweak it as I learn more about the process.

And now I realize that I have overlooked something crucial. Any and all mana I spend inside of my own body that isn’t instantly reclaimed is absorbed into my dungeon core. Which is a really good thing when working with Solar Energy, but it makes things a bit difficult. If it wasn’t like that I would blow myself up, but because that happens it is much more difficult to reabsorb mana, a task I already struggle with.

It isn’t all bad. It is much easier for me to absorb mana I spend in my own body than it is to absorb any other mana. Ultimately what it comes down to is practice. I need to get to perfect efficiency with this, anything short of that and I will have a net negative mana production from this project.

Finally, after who knows how long I now have access to a reliable source of Solar Energy. With this, I could become a proper mage, not just a plant manipulator or a healer, but really be able to learn any discipline of magic. Unfortunately, there is no one available to me that would be able to teach me how to use magic beyond what I already know. So it would take an act of Fate for me to make any real progress on something outside of healing or plant manipulation. Which is fine, there isn’t much I can’t do with healing and plant manipulation combined. Though most of that utility comes from my plants.

Practicing creating Solar Energy and turning it into mana is little more than a mental exercise. Yeah, it takes up a lot of mana, but it doesn’t take much focus. That means that I can work on it and flesh manipulation at the same time with only negligible drawbacks. Now I should be able to start finishing up three of azrezel’s undead in a day on average, and that is only going to increase.

Azrezel has started the final preparations for raising the powerful corpse he has. He has some alchemical preparations and potions, the difference being that one you drink and one you don’t, and other stuff that I don’t recognize. A good chunk of it was created by or acquired with the help of Tiddol. He is going all out, some of the stuff is worth more than the entirety of what I have spent on new plants, ignoring the dungeon store. On top of that he also has tons of mana berries, which he assures me probably won’t be enough, and so I’ve been helping him make more. If this doesn’t create a sentient undead I don’t know what will.

If anything else noteworthy happened today I wasn’t around to see it.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.