I was feeling much better this morning, and by the time I finished breakfast the last of the disease had left my system.

After cutting down all of the unreasonable pieces of equipment it will be three or four more days before I finish perfecting all of the equipment, and then half a day after that before I finish making all of the equipment. Then Par is marching with his soldiers. It’s only a matter of time before we control every city in the area, then it should be easy to root out the people responsible for having me kidnapped. I need to remember to instruct Par to bring the leadership of all the cities to me alive. I wonder if I can use Lace to read minds? Might need to practice a bit.

Azrezel has pretty much ditched the idea of using the undead that we have been working on for the last couple days, the ones that were dropping dead in moments. Progress has been too slow on that to be worth it. So instead we worked on making them smarter again, this time avoiding the issue of random death. We did manage to improve them today, but not to the level we had before.

It’s not like the work we put in to figure out how to keep them alive longer was a complete waste, we learned quite a bit about how the brain works in the process.

I met with Tiddol’s daughter Umi today. I don’t really see her around very often so I took the time to talk with her when I saw her. She has blossomed into a pretty potent mage, with a focus on studying mana itself. She did try to experiment a bit with the Solar Energy I provided, but she found herself talentess with it, makes sense, she is a natural at controlling mana. Apparently she has spent most of her time between the library and the training fields, Parius refused to let either of his children be incapable of fighting. By all accounts she is a competent battle mage, especially against other mages. She has even evolved recently. It was into something called a Serilis, a creature with intense blue skin, a trio of horns jutting out of her skull, and some kind of gem in her forehead. From what she told me that gem is just that, an organic gemstone, only better in every way than a normal gemstone, except maybe capacity. Naturally that capacity improves as she uses it. Her species is talented at magic, not really any particular kind of magic, just magic in general.

From what I have heard about her she is driven, intense, and brash. But she was nervous, a bit giddy, and was constantly blushing while we talked, which is a reaction I have grown use to recently.

I made her a necklace to help her out in her training. It is designed to improve her ability to perceive mana and her ability to control mana, at the cost of her sense of direction. I also made another one at her request, one that completely cripples everything except what would be required to study and understand mana. Any further and she would be injured from using it, it isn’t an exaggeration to say that she is completely paralyzed while using it. I hope it will accomplish what she wants it for, but I’m kind of worried that she will accidentally starve while using it. I let Par know that he should probably check up on her about once a day to make sure she takes care of herself, and to tell him that she asked me for something that might distract her from that.

Other than that I spent some time hanging out with Tiddol. Ever since her birthday, with a short break to help me, she has been working with some clockwork device. She must have been inspired by the gift she got.

So far the device she’s making is about the size of a newborn goblin, maybe a bit smaller. I have no idea what it is yet and all I’ve gotten from Tiddol there is ‘you’ll see’. I hope so, because I am completely stumped on what she might be making. Her not telling me is only making me more curious.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.