My apprentices have surprised me by figuring out how to get around even the most potent crude poisons I am able to produce with ease, according to them, it is very similar to resisting the field of Null, but easier. I’m sure I could make something that would challenge them, but honestly, it is a little discouraging.

At this point, I am running out of exercises to put them through, so I decided to do the hardest one I have managed to think of. Basically the active battlefield one from before, only with every single complication I can add. The two of them will be the only healers for an army of flesh and bone puppets fighting against another, much larger, force. This whole thing would be much more effective if each side had actual commanders that actually understand mass combat, so I recruit a couple less important military leaders and have them participate in this wargame. That also has the benefit of dramatically reducing the amount of mental resources it takes for me to run the exercise.

After they master this exercise I will move on to teaching them how to safely shape flesh and mold bone, azrezel has been excited to help me teach that one.

I heard from the scholars today that someone on the other side of the world a group of their members are preparing to use Requiem to try and start a colony on one of the moons. They are being held back by a lack of actual supply of the stuff as they can’t seem to get it to grow and the only stuff they have is what they pull out of dungeons. They were asking me to create some for them so that they could pull off that project. Of course, I agreed, having my own plants on one of the moons will only make it easier to expand there someday.

While I was there some younger scholars, who I later learned to be students here for some in the field training, asked me to teach them how I managed to write a book in a couple days. The other scholars a bit angry and reprimanded them for disturbing me, but not before I realized that while teaching someone else how to write a book that fast might be a bit beyond me, I could probably make some kind of device that can do it for them.

It would have to be something with unlimited potential for improvement, otherwise using magic to write with would be better every single time. Likely something that writes something out as quickly as you can think it? I’ll have to talk about the scholars to make sure that I am not overlooking anything obvious.

Anyway, as for my actual project, I have made really good progress. What I have now is good enough for what I want, it isn’t actually self-aware but it does have the potential of doing so eventually. And honestly, that is probably better than making something that is actually self-aware, as if it is self-aware from the get-go it is more likely to not listen to instructions. So after I teach people how to make it I think I will be done with this project for now.

Other than that I spent some time with Azrezel talking about the future. Not the immediate future like what we are going to do tomorrow, or even the decently close future, like what are we going to do with the angelic council, but the far future. We talked about my dream to expand my forest to the edges of the world and beyond. He talked about his desire to perfect the art of necromancy, following the same path his father was on towards the end of his life. He talked about how his father had originally assumed he was going to become an adventurer like he was in his youth, and how azrezel never wanted to be one himself, something unusual for the children of famous adventurers.

If it weren't for me he probably would have become one anyway, or at least that’s what he says.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.