Today I continued to make progress refining Whitefoot. As a relatively simple plant it is pretty easy to perfect.

Most of my plants would never survive in the wild, they simply require too much mana. Thinking about that is weird. For me creating more of one of my plants is incredibly easy and requires minimal mana, but plants have a lot harder time gathering up mana by design. I mean it makes sense, plants were created to increase the ambient mana.

I would love to know how origin figured out how to make plants catch Solar Energy being released by the suns. All the solar energy that plants don’t catch moves to quickly to actually interact with the ambient mana and goes somewhere, I have no idea where but it doesn’t become mana.

Asking the scholars didn’t lead to any answers, as far as I know, they know less about Solar Energy than I do. Maybe a specialist would know, but how would someone other than myself get access to solar energy in the first place? I was able to because I was in the perfect position and state of mind to benefit from it when I had the chance, and that was largely due to my affiliation with plants. Maybe someone that studies the effects of having two suns in the sky could figure it out eventually. They wouldn’t have the right affinity for it but with enough time they might be able to brute force it, assuming they were trying to. According to everyone I’ve asked Solar Energy isn’t exactly something that has been studied, or even really observed before Mest sent in some reports on it. He was considered the expert on Solar Energy, but now the only ‘expert’ is dead. There might be someone somewhere that is studying it, but they aren’t known of at all in this part of the world.

Azrezel has finished all of his preparations now. The only thing left to do is actually perform the spell required to turn the corpse into an undead. This particular spell is a long, slow spell requiring tons of mana. That is all mostly because he is trying to do something way out of his own league, he simply does not have the skills required to do something like this so he is making up for it by creating a spell that is slow and careful, allowing him to make sure not to make even the smallest mistake, brute forcing the spell with tons of mana, and providing the best possible situation for the spell.

He asked me for a lot of mana berries a couple days ago so I asked a couple Ents to produce some and now we have tons of them. Unfortunately, they require a bit of concentration in order to actually use, something Azrezel will not be able to spare, so I had to help him out there as well. I let him borrow my crown, it was surprising when he screamed in pain as it burrowed into his flesh, I had forgotten that was a thing that, happened. Next, I took all of the mana berries and merged them all into a single, rather large, mana berry. Then I modified the crown to pull mana from the berry to charge itself faster than Azrezel will be using the mana. It took way too long to make that part efficient enough for my standards. After a bit of practice, Azrezel was able to pull mana from my crown much easier than he was able to pull mana from a mana berry. Not perfect but much better.

After that I built a privacy room for him. Basically just a room that no one other than myself and the ents could possibly enter until he is done. It also takes advantage of singing grass to remove any potential distractions.

I was worried about not being able to help him if he gets in trouble during the spell, but if he messes up so badly as to need help then he is just going to die. There would be nothing anyone within a mile could do for him unless there happens to be a true immortal nearby. The scale he is working at here is simply too large. That is a big part of why the spell will take so long, to minimize the chance of catastrophic failure and increase the chance of success.

I’m getting excited and nervous and it isn’t even my project. I mean I helped, but only in a superficial way. The amount of effort I put into this is minimal, I accomplished all the work needed in the space of an hour in over the course of several days. That doesn’t kill my enthusiasm to see the final project any though. I’ll make sure to burn my Fate towards the end of the spell, hopefully, it will help somehow.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.