I should be done fixing up Azrezel by tomorrow at around lunchtime. I am steadily getting faster and faster at absorbing the knowledge floating around in my head, so no major change there.

Today I was working on limbs a lot. I was learning a lot of things about how different limb types function and their various purposes. The most interesting thing I learned today was how exactly wings allow for flight. It wasn’t the most immediately relevant information, but it definitely helps when trying to figure out how to heal someone without a blueprint.

There are a surprising number of people who fail to get their limbs restored for so long that their body forgets how the limb used to be. I would have thought that, with healing being the single most practiced form of magic, it would be pretty easy to get your arm restored. But it turns out that restoring limbs is actually quite difficult, and even when you can find someone capable of restoring your limb it is prohibitively expensive for most people. Restoring that much flesh and bone is pretty mana intensive after all. Finding someone capable of healing without a blueprint and doing so well is even harder. And to think, I’ve been healing people for free. Not like it really matters, I don’t need money and it doesn’t have an impact on me mana wise.

Speaking of, it’s weird how little mana most people have. Even most mages have very little mana production compared to me. Of course most people also don’t have an entire grove and just over a thousand people to draw mana from, and most people don’t have a dungeon core.

And dungeon related spells are expensive. Shaping the terrain into a maze? That costs tons of mana. Creating a new living thing to populate said maze? Even more mana. Creating objects out of mana to stock your dungeon full of loot? Still more mana. You can’t get the mana back after you do those things either, it is somehow woven into the object or creature you are creating, making it overall better but much more expensive. If I actually cared about any of that other than the whole creating life part I would probably be complaining about not having enough mana to do anything with.

While my mana production is way higher than normal, and only increasing thanks to my ever expanding grove and Par’s ever-expanding town, my mana pool is only a little bit larger than normal, so way to small for my mana production. Most people’s mana pools and mana production are directly linked, while mine have nothing to do with each other. So basically I need a way to increase my mana pool. The only way I can think to do that is with gemstones, but there is a limit to the number I can effectively use at one time, it gets harder to pull from them the more of them there are because it requires more and more attention. So I need the highest quality gemstones I can get my hands on. The best one I know of is Demon Glass, if only for its ability to improve itself. I’ll see if I can get my hands on some high-quality Demon Glass, though I’m not sure I have the money for it. Maybe I can get some from another dungeon?

Other than that I asked the scholars if they could arrange for me to have a chance to study a troll’s physiology. I could tell that they were struggling not to laugh at me, but they agreed anyway. The troll should be here in about a week. I should probably practice with Solar Energy a bit before then.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.