My apprentices are going to return to learning under me tomorrow. It isn’t that they have mastered flying, that will likely take a very long time. Nor is it that they never crash anymore. Instead, they have figured out how to crash in a way that reduces the chance of them getting injured or hurting someone else. So it isn’t dangerous for them to practice on their own anymore.

I have not yet managed to create a plant that is made out of glass, so the expansion of the caverns continues. The basic idea isn’t wrong, I have been able to create a number of clear plants so far, which proves that I can affect the evolution with the environment.

At this point, the caverns are deep enough that there is more gravel and rock than dirt, which is slowing us down quite a bit. This isn’t all bad. We have hit a couple ore veins that I was able to extract with Digger Root, normally it can’t manipulate metal but all of the impurities in ore makes it so I can, usually.

Most of what we found was some low-quality mundane metals. But I did find a vein of nearly pure mithril ore, so pure that I couldn't manipulate it with Digger Root. This would be great if we had anyone skilled enough to handle mithril, but we don’t have any smiths of that caliber. Tiddol is able to make good use of it when making clockwork creatures and she would definitely know much better than me about how to actually make use of it.

After finding that ore I thought to myself ‘that was pretty lucky’ or something along those lines. That stuck with me all day, realizing that luck is somehow relevant to my current situation but not knowing how exactly. Then I realized that I was gaining Fate really fast these last couple days. One thought led to another and now I am pretty sure that building my fate is the reason I haven’t succeeded yet. I mean its whole thing is it causes minor unlucky events now to cause a major windfall latter, and failing to trigger the type of evolution I want is absolutely the type of minor misfortune that would happen as a result of this.

I think I should just keep doing what I’m doing for now, I’ve never had my Fate grow this fast before. It might even get to the point where I can’t keep it stable anymore.

A city on the edge of my forest was attacked today. It was a small one without any walls. I waited till all of the soldiers attacking the place were within the city, making sure to prevent anyone they wounded from dying, before I had massive walls of roots rise up to cover the city. Then I started evacuating all of the civilians while teleporting soldiers into the city.

It turned into a one-sided slaughter. With no civilians to protect, me personally healing the wounded and using plants to harass and restrain the invaders they stood no chance against our might. We were even able to take a good chunk of them captive, I’m not sure what the purpose of that was but Par seemed intent on taking as many of them alive as he could.

Overall there was only a handful of deaths from people who were old or already injured somehow before the fighting began. Property damage was pretty high, but it was all stuff I could easily repair myself. Though this raiding part was quite a bit smaller than I would expect.

Other than that I spent my downtime talking with Emericus. He’s been spending most of his time meditating and using Solar Energy to improve his body, which is to be expected. He didn’t really talk about himself and I didn’t really ask, but he did ask me a lot about my forest and the things in it. The entire time he treated me as an equal.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.