I received a report from Par today. After a surprise attack and the following two days of combat, he has successfully taken control of a staging ground that was used by the enemy to marshal mercenaries. In the process managing to slaughter many and scattering the rest. Thanks to this it should be a while before they gather in enough numbers that their armies can threaten us. In the meantime, we are more or less uncontested in the region.

And so, for the first time, our army is going to be split up. Instead of having everyone follow under Par, which was necessary to take cities in the past, it has been divided up into five sections. Small enough groups to move quickly while still being large enough to hold on long enough for help to arrive should the worst happen. With any luck, we will have captured all major population centers in the area within the month.

In addition to that, the enemy has started marshaling at our borders in order to fend off my paladins. They are not currently trying to directly oppose us, I don't think they have the numbers for that yet, instead it is small groups of them harassing us for a moment before fleeing. More annoying than dangerous, and they obviously don't have any real specialists yet, but I have no doubt that they will eventually become an actual threat. In the meantime, I should probably talk to our enchanters to try and figure out a way to counter any plant destroying enchantment.

Which is exactly what I spent my day doing today, with minimal progress, but progress nonetheless. I got them to create a weak plant destroying enchantment and spent my day trying to grow some vines towards it, by the end of the day my plants were able to last a second, which was a second more than they were before. Meanwhile, I tasked them with figuring out as many different possible methods to counter an enchantment like this and the ones we picked up after the last time they attacked us.

I didn't take a break today, with the enemy attacking my forest again I wanted to be ready for the inevitable happens and they start using those annoying enchantments. So it kind of slipped my mind.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.