My apprentices managed to get an actual victory today. The commander managed to force a battle of attrition by keeping the amount of time any individual soldier was actively fighting to a minimum, meaning that their troops would always get a chance to heal up and start fighting again, while the enemy troops were constantly slowly worn down. The battle ended up taking three hours and during that time my apprentices were frequently running dangerously low on mana, but they managed to ration it nearly perfectly and were never not healing.

I think I am going to start teaching them flesh manipulation in the next couple days, maybe once I am finished with my current project. They are reaching a plateau of what they are able to learn with traditional healing, and learning how to shape flesh and mold bone should help them with their healing.

As for said project, I got it to the point where it is slightly better than writing with a pen, assuming you are a novice in both. It isn’t really good enough for it to find common use, but this is a solid step forward.

We haven’t really come up with a solution for people that think with images instead of words, but it doesn’t seem to be too big of a deal as the only drawback is making it a bit more difficult for them to use, something that can be remedied by improving the device and improving the skills of the user.

They have, however, shown that using this device to create images is also possible. Which isn’t really what I built it for, but it makes sense that it works. The mechanism behind it basically just burns what you want onto the pages, it would be weird if you couldn’t use it to make images. I had considered doing a design where I put all of the different letters onto different pieces and to press those into the paper to write, but that turned out to be really inefficient so I changed the design pretty early on, that definitely wouldn’t have worked to create images.

As for my downtime, I spent it hanging out with Azrezel. We ended up having date night, going to a restaurant that offers live entertainment with dinner. Something of a novelty that propped up recently and gained quite a bit of popularity. The food was above average and the show was better, but the company was amazing. I would be interested in coming again sometime.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.