During my experimentation with resisting plant destroying enchantments, I discovered something. The same mechanism that allows things improved with Solar Energy to repel mana also prevents enchantments from interacting with them. I tried it out mostly on a hunch, and it took me a little bit to figure out how to do it, but it does work.

Unfortunately, I don't think that this is the solution to the problem. The first time I had ever really attempted this was today, it was only recently that being near that effect wouldn't kill me and I am skilled enough with my control of solar energy to render it irrelevant in most cases. So I'm not very good at replicating it cheaply, and it is expensive. I simply don't have the kind of Solar Energy production required to maintain our growth like this. Not to mention that it would absolutely have unintended side effects in the way my forest functions.

The enchanters did come up with a method for me to incorporate an enchantment designed to specifically counter the plant-killing one very efficiently, but it only works on one iteration of the enchantment. It would work on anything similar, but at drastically reduced effectiveness. This would be a great solution if I already knew a lot about enchanting, as I could update the enchantments in real-time as the enemy improves and changes theirs. They also proposed a solution where we basically just pile on a whole bunch of similar enchantments, and that would work, but it also makes it so that each tree is costing more mana that it earns me. So it is not an option long term, at least not without a ton of refining, but it could work to react to an immediate threat.

Other than that I spent my downtime hanging out with Tiddol. We made a point to talk about anything other than the current war, as that is all either of us have been thinking about recently. It was mostly light banter, and it was relaxing. I'm glad I'm able to have fun with her like this.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.