Today I made a pretty big breakthrough in how I refine plants with Solar Energy. In hindsight, it was painfully obvious. As a result of that breakthrough, it will only be another day before I can move on to the next thing.

Today, while I was working, Whisperer’s replacement came to me. He was a bit rushed, and poorly hiding the fact that he was freaking out inside. He told me that there was supposed to be a surprise attack here either tomorrow or the next day, let’s really make it a surprise.

He told me that it was a pretty large force that was supposed to teleport into the forest, which he found out about thanks to having a couple of his people infiltrate the city that is attempting this. It is a large force, with some pretty powerful magical backing, hence the teleportation. We do know where they will be teleporting too, the center of Par’s town, which makes this all too easy. We might even be able to take them all alive, trained soldiers make useful slaves.

We aren’t sure what time of day it will happen, so whatever preparations we do will have to be up constantly. Which means evacuating the village entirely. Which introduces the problem that there might be a spy in the mix magically reporting our movements. Luckily reading recent memories is easy, and something I can do on a large scale without people noticing, especially while they’re asleep.

From there we can get some Ents working on a shift to keep a ludicrous amount of Dead Tulip pollen floating around the area. It is possible they have a way to not have to breathe that in so I modified it to be able to be absorbed by the skin. still, a couple people might be immune entirely. for them, there is other magic that other people can use.

Naturally, I came up with very little of this myself, I don't have a mind for tactics. that hasn't changed or anything like that. It was mostly Wujiang, my dad's old partner. Apparently, he has been in a situation almost exactly like this before, which is not surprising in the least.

So I read people’s minds and found about five people that were reporting everything to one of the local city-states, and a sixth that was reporting to some ‘dark lord’ a continent away. I left that last one alone as he seemed pretty non-threatening all things considered, I’m pretty sure that ‘dark lord’ is just a dungeon. The spies were dealt with, they didn’t tell me how exactly though I can still guess.

And from there it is out of my hands.

As for the undead, progress was sped up by using Lace, but it is still slowing down. At this current rate it will be about two days before we will have to move onto something else. Probably improving the rest of the undead in a way that doesn’t completely destroy their other uses. Alternatively, we can just make more of these giant spire-like brains and have a bunch of specialists instead of having every undead be providing something to the hive-mind.

Other than that not a lot happened. I did talk to Wujiang a bit, and apparently, he is going to leave in about a week to go back to be with his family. He told me a couple stories about my dad, embarrassing ones that he would never tell me. He’s not as good at storytelling as my dad, but then again no one is that good, but he is good. Probably picked a thing or two up from the guy.

I also told him a couple stories of my own, most of them from before the forest burned down, before I start a grove almost two years ago. It was a quiet time, a simpler time. Now I have to worry about armies spontaneously teleporting into my home to try and murder me, and I have people that will help me deal with that stuff when it does happen.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.