Today I was too tired to do much more than continue to refine Skeletal Rose, draining my soul like I did yesterday is never fun. It should be completed by tomorrow, I'm looking forward to making use of it.

My Paladins have shown up in force to grow my forest faster. Any one of them individually is nowhere near enough to make a difference, but there are now a lot of them. On top of that they learn very quickly, and this is an ideal situation for their own progress. So right now they aren't doing much to speed up my growth, but that speed will pick up very rapidly. With so many independent minds doing everything they can to improve the whole it won't be long before it is more effective to give them my mana to work with rather than grow it all myself.

Now that I think about it, I should probably do that anyway. Their main limiting factor right now is skill, but if they can afford to be a little wasteful with mana then they can improve skill much faster. With how potentially effective they are I should be trying to maximize their resources as much as possible. Maybe I should task some of them to maximize their own usage of mana? Maybe.

I think I will have a couple hundred practice using massive amounts of mana as efficiently as possible, there is no point to using the absolute minimum amount of mana if all you can accomplish is lighting a campfire. I have no idea if this will bear fruit for our current endeavor, it really is a shot in the dark, but it should help future endeavors at the very least.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.