Askos managed to stand up today, only to immediately lose concentration and fall over. It’s pretty impressive honestly. I’m trying to not have expectations about how quickly they will succeed but this is beyond what I thought they were going to achieve. I thought it was going to be a week before either of them could stand up, much less three days. By the end of the week he’s going to be able to walk and talk without losing concentration.

Junior is catching up as well, though her focus is in a different direction. She’s been trying to figure out how to do magic while still maintaining her concentration on the mana gathering technique. She’s also able to keep concentration more or less indefinitely as long as she doesn’t intentionally move, random twitches are no longer a problem.

I can’t wait till they are at the point where they are challenging me in healing, hopefully then we can learn from each other.

I realized a much easier solution to the whole teleportation thing today. If I integrate Portweed and Requiem into all of my trees then anyone my trees like could go up to them and ask to be teleported somewhere else. I might have to integrate Singing Grass as well so they can hear people who aren’t part of my hive mind. There are some obvious kinks to work out, but it would be better than having tons of teleportation gates everywhere.

Of course, those gates would still be necessary for moving large amounts of people or goods at a time, but I wouldn’t need nearly as many. Previously I would have had to make a gate that was not only able to teleport people around but also not so well made that only I could replicate it so that other people could go and install it. It wouldn’t have been impossible, but it would have been a lot harder than designing one that was just as good as I could possibly make it. If I only need to make a couple dozen then it isn’t really a problem for me to put them in myself.

As for what I actually did today, I worked on figuring out exactly how to integrate the plants I need to in order to pull off this project. That should only take a day or two to finish, then maybe a day after that of testing to make sure I didn’t forget anything obvious.

Other than that I hung out with Tiddol today. She’s been working on a gift for Par. some kind of clockwork pendant that is supposed to do something magical, she got way too into explaining how it works to really tell me what it does. She recently attended a couple of classes that the enchanter specialist put on. She still finds enchanting to be boring, but now she realizes that some of the core ideas behind enchanting can be applied to her own work in a way she never thought of before. The actual specifics of it all went way over my head, which is probably what happens when I explain my own projects to Tiddol, but it is still fun to listen to her talk about it.

She was also telling me about one noteworthy person who had been attending those lessons. Previously he was just someone with a minor talent for healing, but he managed to figure out a way to carve enchantments onto his own bones, and he also has a high enough pain tolerance to actually pull it off without blacking out. I’m not really sure what he could do with this, but that is probably because I don’t really know what you can do with enchanting. The specialist went on record to say that he was ‘rather disturbed by the whole thing’ and that ‘it made my bones itch just thinking about it’.

Oh yeah, one last thing, Lord Parius the Magnificent is now officially known as Emperor Parius the Magnificent. Or at least that is what people call him when he comes up in casual conversation, that or just ‘The Emperor’. And he does come up in casual conversation quite frequently.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.