By the end of the day, I had finished filling up all of the buildings I have for destroying the desert. I have a trio of Ents guarding each one, with each shift lasting about an hour.

While I was doing that I was also busy designing an Ent the way the dungeons wanted me too. This Ent is made solely out of Astrie, Pipeweed, and Spellwood, plants that are normally just supports for the others.

The only focus was creating an Ent that was incredibly skilled at magic, to that end I did a number of things. With Pipeweed I did the usual of making the whole thing dense with magical plumbing to allow mana to move around very quickly, only I took it to an extreme that simply wouldn’t be possible if there were other plants in the way. I used spellwood such that it that would allow the Ent to instinctively shape it in a way that would improve their own magic. It gets better with use and more readily forms to familiar shapes. Astrie was there to provide the actual structure and to improve magic directly.

I decided that the general biped shape that I have been using for Ents so far would not only be not necessary, but also not very good at what I want compared to what other shapes could offer. The biped form is really good at using tools, something irrelevant with this creation. So I did something else.

I started with the brain, as it is an incredibly important part of magic. I put what I learned by working the undead to good use by making a brain as good as I possibly could, and as large as I possibly could without interfering with its actual ability to use magic. From there I ended up with a fragile wooden ball, a large fragile wooden ball. Durability is irrelevent and all that matters is magic.

The next thing I needed to figure out was a way to get it moving. I ended up creating eight powerful, thin, dexterous legs to carry it around. Partially because I couldn’t use a more magical mode of transportation and partially because I felt like it, it’s not like it would impact the Ent’s ability to use magic at all. This has the effect of making the Ent be able to move quite well despite its own bulk.

After finishing the overall design I went through and improved any minute detail I possibly could until I was satisfied with the results. I then seeded a soul into it and gifted the design to the people in the group that ended up figuring out what needed to change to allow me to use necromancy. I’m now waiting to hear what they think of it.

Other than that I spent my downtime the same way I have the last couple days, teaching Azrezel how to shape flesh and mold bone. As I have said before he is a quick study, and is dedicating quite a lot of effort to this. I won’t really be able to teach him anything more after tomorrow, the rest he will have to learn on his own. I give it two months before he surpasses me in this field, make it a month and a half.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.