At this point, the increased mana generation more than makes up for the mental strain from constantly gathering it. My Apprentices are now both able to fully heal one of the bodies before it dies, though only Junior is able to do so reliably. Both are making rapid progress under my tutelage. Guiding them like this is much more entertaining than waiting for them to learn how to walk.

I finished the design for the teleporter at around noon. It is able to move approximately five hundred people every minute, given the average around here. That would be a bit less if they are wearing heavy equipment as the limiting factor is not number of people but rather weight.

I should be done installing them by dawn, maybe a bit after. Ultimately I decided to put one in every town and village while putting two in every city. If more are needed anywhere latter I’ll put in more, but unless it turns out to be not enough then I will continue to keep them at the same rate when I surround more cities.

The scholars have finished reviewing my book finally. I am now officially an honorary member of their order. Hopefully, I will be able to take advantage of them even more.

They wanted me to do something for them today as well, it was just identifying a magical plant, nothing too difficult. The plant turned out to be Astrie, but the perfected stuff I made. Apparently, one of their Divers pulled it out of a dungeon and weren’t able to test it without destroying their only sample. It was kind of a disappointment because I was looking forward to getting my hands on a new plant but I encouraged them to bring plants to me for any reason really. Hopefully, some of them will be ones I haven’t seen before.

Other than that I tried to spend my downtime just thinking to myself, but my thoughts kept returning to Talus, someone I would rather not think about right now. So I instead hung out with Tiddol. Her apprentices were excited to show off some new flavors that they managed to create, this time actually cooked into food. Someone made a steak out plants and some flavoring that was supposed to taste like meat, and it did, but the texture was so far from the real thing that I couldn’t eat it. They did much better with the ice cream and a beverage called hot chocolate, which turned out to be just the chocolate flavoring poured into some hot milk. After eating a bunch of them I can safely say that the alchemical flavorings are best used for sweets, while everything else is hit or miss.

Apparently, they are trying to figure out how to mass produce the stuff for public use now. Though we don’t really have access to the kind of facilities required for doing that kind of alchemy on a large scale. Apparently, it’s some pretty complicated stuff, well beyond any simple healing potion. And we don’t really have anyone who knows how to create those facilities.

They talked around the question for a while until one of them finally asked me if I could help out with that problem, which I definitely can as what they are looking for is available through the terminal. It was funny watching them blush in embarrassment as I pretended to think about it. I may have intentionally let the atmosphere get a bit awkward to watch them squirm a bit before agreeing to help them out. There is now a facility to mass produce potions being built outside of Pearlhold. I even put a teleporter in a storehouse I added to its side. It was pretty expensive, but being able to mass produce more complex potions should improve the lives of everyone more than most things I could have bought. I can build more of them if the need arises too, and it won’t be limited to just alchemical flavors in the future. Based on what Tiddol has said they have to create so much more than that.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.