Today my apprentices started a new exercise. This time they are given a couple dozen bodies at various levels of injury and stability. They have to prioritize how they spend their time and effort to save as many of them as possible, at this point they can more or less heal any injury that doesn’t involve some sort of healing resistant poison, but they don’t have the mana to complete this exercise. I expect that to change pretty quickly.

I have started to run into a problem with the trees I am growing in the ocean; the ocean gets really deep rather quickly. My trees don’t float so I need their roots to reach the ocean floor, which isn’t a problem close to the coast but makes things progress very slowly once I get past that. I’m not really sure how to go about making my trees float quite yet, glass is heavy and it has a tendency to sink. I tried making something in the shape of a boat, but it quickly filled with water and sunk because of all of the pores in the glass. And I can’t remove those or the plant dies. I’m sure I could figure out a way to get it to work with time and effort, which I will be doing, but in the meantime, I am going to try something else.

See, the trees are too heavy and are a terrible shape to float, but if I make something much smaller then those issues become much more manageable. The design I ended up going with was a bunch of disks connected to each other by some thin, flexible, and relatively lightweight string. I’m not entirely sure why it works but that design manages to float better than every other design except the disks on their own with no string, but that tends to float away or get eaten by sea creatures.

It’s nowhere near as good as having trees, it certainly doesn’t provide the same level of control over the area, but it is better than nothing. Plus it helps make growing trees in the ocean faster.

My next project is trying to figure out how to get the trees themselves to float. I have a couple ideas about how to go about doing this, but most of them require me to figure out how to get other plants to be able to integrate safely into Shimmerleaf without being destroyed by the acid. Maybe I can use Whitelock somehow to pull the trees upward? I know many Air manipulators are able to use it to fly really well. Something to try tomorrow.

I talked with Emericus today during my downtime. He’s spent nearly every waking moment since we last talked trying to figure out how to get Solar Energy and mana to coexist, and managed to blow himself up countless times, nothing he can’t handle. At this point he has more or less succeeded, though he still has trouble keeping mana moving fast enough, he is more than able to make up for that with his control over Solar Energy. He still has to concentrate on it quite a lot or it will blow up in his face, but as long as he is concentrating it is stable.

The guy is very thankful to me, I didn’t even really do all that much, just tell him that it is possible. Still, I won’t complain about having another way that he owes me.

He asked me to build him a place where he can sit down and meditate for a while without any potential issues. A place that is perfectly insulated from ambient mana outside of itself. This isn’t an issue for me, but I made sure to build it deep underground so that there won’t be any potential problems if he messes up and causes a bunch of Solar Energy to detonate. I also made sure to remove nearly all of the ambient mana on his request, leaving just enough to keep his Solar Energy creating device functioning. From there he teleported into the room, because of course he can teleport, and started meditating. I don’t think I am going to see him again any time soon.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.