It took all of two days, but that beast has finally collapsed from exhaustion, and I feel like doing the same. I would be really impressed by the craftsmanship if I weren't the cause of a major headache. This new plant had better be worth it.

The beast was only getting smarter as we fought, and at one point even stopped attacking my trees. I think it noticed the fact that I had rather blatantly avoided a killing blow. It doesn't know language, as demonstrated by my repeated attempts to communicate with it, but I have no doubt that it is sentient.

In order to actually knock it out I had to corral it into a mana dead zone that I had to set up, and let me tell you it is really difficult to set up a functioning dead zone in open air. I was somehow able to brute force it with way too much pipeweed, but even then it was constantly on the verge of failure. And that still wasn't enough to actually end the fight, the beast still kept fighting for over three hours after that, their regeneration working even without mana. Because of course it uses Solar Energy in it's design. Why wouldn't it?

It wasn't really that big of a threat, if we were trying to kill it then everything would be over in less than a second. Even a couple dozen of them wouldn't be that big of a deal. But I was the only one able to properly deal with it without also suffering casualties as Par was absent and Azrezel's undead were either too valuable or too weak to spend here. I'm sure we could have thrown some adventurers at it until it stopped moving, that is one of the primary purposes of adventurers after all, but I highly doubt that we would have been able to get it alive with that strategy. And also it is always a possibility that they light the city on fire and run off into the night. This is why most cities are made out of stone or other fire-resistant materials nowadays, at least according to my dad.

Regardless, the beast is in the process of being delivered to its owner. A contract has already been signed so I'm not too worried about getting the plant, getting that beast to dissect and study would be enlightening if not as useful as new plant.

I don't really need to oversee anything else, so I'm going to actually sleep for the first time in a little while.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.