I spent almost all day trying to figure out what exactly changed during my evolution yesterday. Other than the whole ‘being better at everything’ thing.

The most immediately obvious thing was my height. I had grown a head and a half taller. I now tower over most people. Getting taller during an evolution is normal, growing that much is pretty rare, not unheard of but rare.

The next thing I noticed was the fact that I was glowing, quite a bit actually. After investigating that I found glovine woven into my skin in a way that I can’t remove it without grievous harm to myself. It took a bit of concentration but I was able to turn off the glow, and I bet I would be able to do other fun things with light on my skin. Maybe make myself invisible or transparent? I’ll have to experiment with that later.

The next thing I noticed when I stood up, and proceed to bang my head against a rock after losing my balance. The pain was a lot less than it should have been for nearly cracking my skull open, likely a result of Flore. Whatever it is doing to my body doesn’t seem to have an effect on soreness, only sharp pain. It isn’t working at peak effectiveness, as then I wouldn’t feel pain at all, but this is probably better.

After that, I noticed that I did, in fact, have a skull, and other bones too. Mostly made of mithrilwood, of course. It’s weird, having bones. It’s like suddenly I am much heavier, but at the same time I am also much stronger. Mana based creatures tend to be rather fragile, I guess this should compensate for that a bit. On a related note, because of having bones and a couple other changes to my body I will actually leave a corpse when I die.

My wooden arm is gone, it was replaced by a more normal arm when I evolved. I didn’t lose any of its functionality either, if anything what replaced it is much better. Now all of my plants are integrated into my body in various ways, I can’t remove them entirely but I can use them to produce more of them for external use.

When I was found by Azrezel in the smoldering crater of what used to be a battery of Solar Energy the first thing I noticed was that I could see something overlapping him. Well see isn’t the right word, it was more like some kind of extra sense I didn’t have before. It didn’t take long to realize that what I was looking at was his soul, and that I could even see the soul of my trees and of myself, but I have to focus to see myself and my tree’s souls are small and indistinct. It took me quite a while to figure out what exactly was causing it, but eventually, I realized that it was being caused by Grey Iris, the necromancy plant. It seems its purpose was not necromancy, but rather the manipulation of the soul, which just so happens to be most used almost exclusively in Necromancy. It is an ability I would have gained eventually from being a dungeon, but not for another decade or so, so that’s pretty cool.

After that, I went through to figure out the effects of all of my different plants. Whitefoot made my natural healing speed go through the roof. Lace gave me telepathic abilities. Portweed allowed me to teleport. I’m not quite sure what Spellwood did, or what Ergen or Drowsy clover did for that matter. Pipeweed makes everything to do with magic better, primarily by making the movement of mana a lot easier to control, faster, and more efficient. Blastbark allows me to explode with minimal risk to myself. Singing Grass lets me manipulate sound, but by default causes faint music to play around me. Dead Tulip gave me the innate ability to put people to sleep. While Astrie just made me slightly better at everything, with the ability to specialize easily.

Of course, I could have done all of these things before with just the plants, but now they work better, or at least differently. It’s like removing a layer of obscurity when interacting with those things. Before I was doing the things through my plants, and while that is still technically true now it feels closer to just doing it on my own. All the power of going through plants and all the control of having personally mastered it.

I should mention that I am absolutely certain that I have not figured out all of the new effects my plants are having on me. I don’t even know how I would go about testing for that stuff at this point.

The sunflower device I have inside of me is ridiculously effective now. I don’t think it is actually plant material anymore, more like it has been ingrained into my body in an incredibly fundamental way. All the other plants could be removed without killing me, theoretically anyway, but not this. It is now fundamental to the way my body processes energy coming into it, and I’m not sure how. Considering the fact that I already had way more mana than I could possibly use I don’t think this will make too much of a difference, though it should give me ample supply of Solar Energy.

My energy pools have also increased massively, which isn’t too much of a surprise as they were pretty small, to begin with. Now my pools are comparable to that of an archmage, though an archmage would be able to put it to use much better than I. Despite that I am capable of completely emptying them into the surrounding area within moments, I don’t think I will ever use this power.

I feel like everything I forced to evolve while I was evolving myself has influenced me somehow, but I have no way of figuring out how exactly. I do know that the connections I used have been strengthened dramatically, to the point that I can feel even the most obscure one as clear as day. I didn’t take the time today to explore those connections.

Azrezel was also dramatically improved, though overall it was just more of what he already had. Nothing really new. A standard, if intense, evolution. By my standards anyway.

Literally everyone, except the clockwork creatures, in both Par’s town and Pearlhold evolved. There are no more goblins in the city. It was painful for all of them, though no one complained, at least not in a place I could hear them. Though we haven’t heard back from Par and his soldiers I don’t think it was any different for them. I didn’t try to control these evolutions, so they all evolved into things that already existed before.

Tiddol’s magically induced creative frenzy will continue for another week, I hope she doesn’t hate me for that.

I know for a fact that I am missing things, as I don’t know exactly what happened myself. But I am going to move on from the effects of my evolution, I would be at this forever if I was going to try to document everything.

My project for the day was figuring out everything I could about my new body, but I did take some time to help Azrezel improve his undead.

Everything was so much easier, it’s almost like I have an instinctual knowledge of how the brain works now. Which I guess makes sense because of the Lace integrated into my body. Thanks to that and the fact that I was using the time to practice improving creatures with Solar Energy we made rapid progress at improving the undead.

This and something Azrezel said that I can’t quite remember anymore inspired my next project. My limiting factor is mental, I can only do so many things at the same time. Unless I start taking the whole dungeon side of things much more seriously I don’t think I will ever run out of mana, and that sounds pretty boring honestly. I am already getting all I can out of my trees, and using Solar Energy to improve my own mental prowess directly seem like it would be too slow to gain any meaningful progress considering the scales I’m dealing with. So I need to expand in a different way, and I know there is a rather large group of people that are absolutely dying to do anything for me, whether I like it or not, so I might as well make use of them.

My idea is to create something that will do a couple of things. The first is to trigger an evolution and focus the effects on the brain, while also creating Solar Energy to assist in the process. Unless it is used on a troll it shouldn’t trigger a Solar Energy evolution and if I design it right that shouldn’t be an issue. The second is to create a mental link between everyone that has gone through the process. It should propagate by itself, or at least be able to be intentionally passed from one person to another. And most importantly, it has to provide me with some more thought power. I think I can do it with a bit of time and effort.

Other than that I spent a bit of time with my dad, who has evolved. Apparently, it was his sixth evolution, which is practically unheard of anywhere. That’s actually really impressive, my dad got five evolutions of his own merit before having one forced on him.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.