Today we got ahold of three more of those bombs intact, and a fourth one that an enchanter managed to partially disable in the middle of exploding. It still exploded, probably even more violently, but it was all in a single direction instead of in every direction. We’ve been storing them in a mana dead room that I built so they stop accumulating mana, and hopefully start to lose some of their energy.

It turns out that yes, part of the structure of the bombs are formed with enchanting. But unfortunately, none of these parts directly cause the explosion or even allow the gather of mana. Quite the opposite, parts of it limit the potential damage of the explosion and limit the speed it can acquire mana, so turning those parts off would cause more harm than just leaving this situation alone entirely. The materials are still unknown, though some people are suggesting that they are alchemical in nature, though from what I’ve seen, I'm more inclined to believe that they are parts of some kind of creature, probably a powerful draconic or demon. Though admittedly both things are not mutually exclusive. I haven’t tried flesh manipulation yet for obvious enough reasons, but I can still make an educated guess.

With the delay, it seems like the person or group doing this isn’t just trying to kill the people they are sticking these bombs inside of. They could be trying to kill healers, or hoping that they are in a public place to cause extra damage or make a statement, I’m not sure, but the fact that they are limiting the damage of the blast tells me that this is probably not an attack on us specifically. Or if it is it’s not being orchestrated by the enemy Empire as they would just want to cause as much damage to us as possible, and killing our healers would be a great way to go about doing that. Plus they have never proven themselves to be subtle.

Plus, to my knowledge, we haven’t really angered anyone else. We haven’t stepped on any toes big enough to step back, except for maybe the scholars. But to be fair, if they wanted to hurt us we would all be dead. They have way more resources of all sorts than we could hope to have. Plus they aren’t exactly subtle about that sort of thing either, in fact, they generally announce their intentions to everyone involved. So unless I’m missing something all signs point to us being an accidental victim in a string of bombings.

Still, despite that life must go on, and I must keep teaching until there is no one left to teach. And I am doing quite well there. I am putting more emphasis on the less skilled ones, so people are growing beyond my ability to teach rather slowly, but within the next couple days people will start reaching that point in massive numbers. Hopefully anyway. From there I will start installing these teaching devices in the training building, seems like a good place for them.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Tiddol and Azrezel. Tiddol had run into a snag with the way her clockwork parts interact with her fleshy parts and asked for our help in fixing the problem. The problem was that her fleshy bits reacted much slower than her clockwork bits, to the point of damaging the connections between them. This problem was easy enough to fix, just needed to improve what she had left of her nervous system, which I already knew how to do, and strengthen the connections to the clockwork, which was easy enough to figure out.

She also talked about Umi quite a bit. The girl actually managed to figure out how to remove mana from existence, if only temporarily. She used it to great effect by temporarily removing mana from her own mana pool before a fight, allowing herself to be refilled halfway through the battle, by temporarily removing a spell from existence, allowing it to go off later than it otherwise would, and by removing half of a spell, effectively destroying it. I thought that doing something like that was impossible, but it seems like if you understand mana well enough then you can get rid of it.

Tiddol was also saying something about her daughter being a lot angrier recently, which makes sense considering her twin brother was killed. Apparently, Umi was talking about ‘erasing them entirely’ in reference to the person that killed Ednar, which when combined with what I know about their recently learned skills I think I have a pretty good idea of what they intend to do. As someone who used to be a mana based creature, that is more than a little terrifying.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.