Today I made progress on creating a mind to connect to my own. I know next to nothing about the process so I have to make do with brute force and intention. What I do know is mostly only tangentially related to the subject, like the physical structure of flesh and bone brains, but it is enough to actually build something though not enough to build something good. The plus side is that actually creating and improving minds like this helps me learn more about how they work, in a roundabout way at least. So everyone I make is better than the last, though I can only support so many at a time. Currently, I can only connect to about three at once, and while that certainly helps me quite a bit, it is a little lackluster. I feel like I can improve that to at least five pretty easily, everything after that will be a grind. The most obvious limit is with my connection to the trees. If I can improve that not only will I be able to connect to more trees that directly but I will also be able to connect more effectively, making everything better.

This whole process is ordinarily rather mana intensive, creating a new tree from scratch normally is. Compound the fact that the trees I am making are increasingly complicated and that I am getting better at working faster the more complicated they become and my newly expanded mana pool is almost never full. As a result, the growth of my grove has ground to a halt more or less. It will likely stay that way until I am satisfied with my improved mental abilities.

Currently, I am able to refine a plant about two and a half times faster than I was able to before, which I’m not quite satisfied with quite yet.

My father is able to walk around without getting winded now. It is amazing what good food, magical healing, and exercise can do for you. I spent much of my free time chatting with him. It is always nice to hear his stories, he has a way of infusing magic into his voice, both literally and metaphorically. A form of illusion I believe. It allows him to paint a picture in your mind, almost as if you were seeing the events he described first hand.

I asked him to tell me about his exploits from the time before he met my mother, the dungeon diving, the revolutions, the hunting, things like that. I had heard the stories before from other people, but hearing him tell them was something different. When other people told the stories they were always exaggerated, and that somehow made them less fantastic. It is little wonder why my mother fell for him.

Azrezel finally got the kinks worked out of his zombies, it is amazing how much effort it took just to improve their strength. They didn’t even evolve from the process. But, improving the strength of a couple zombies wasn’t the point, not really. The real benefit was that now it would be a lot easier for Azrezel to do the same thing in the future.

Apparently my description of the methods I was using to improve the minds of the trees inspired him to do something similar. It amazes me just how similar Necromancy and Healing are, if you get good enough at one it is indistinguishable from the other. I bet I could make undead myself if I really put my mind to it. Probably not very good undead, but undead nonetheless.

Other than that not a lot happened. Or at least nothing particularly interesting happened.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.