Choosing a city to level was easy enough, I just picked a random uninhabited one. Most of them have a couple stragglers living inside, but a couple of them are actually completely empty.

Leveling the city was a lot harder. I had to collapse every building without somehow damaging the city teleporter, and because of the way the teleporter is designed that means I need to minimize damage to the foundation of the city. All of this without being able to directly manipulate any of the buildings. The best I could do is lace the buildings with fungus, which gives me more or less direct control, but that method is both slow and isn't universally applicable, and we have a time crunch. So I had to resort to much less controlled methods of demolition.

Funny enough just lighting everything on fire proved to be very effective, yeah the wooden buildings were easy enough to remove, but getting the stone ones hot enough damaged them, making them easier to tear down. Plus the city teleporter was protected against attacks like that, being able to talk to the original architects made it a lot easier to work around it.

So I basically just lit the city on fire a couple times and then cleared away all of the cracked and broken rubble before breaking down the now much weaker stone buildings. Making sure the buildings didn't collapse too hard was difficult, but not unreasonably so, it mostly just took time and care.

But by the end of the day, the only structure left standing was the city teleporter. I had to rush some of the buildings, and I wasn't able to be a careful as I actually wanted to be, but I got it done with minimal damage to the teleporter. Now I just need to build up battlements and other structures that we will need. Like a place to store people while we sort them out and a field hospital, not that we are expecting many wounded.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Azrezel, spending a long time alone blowing off steam and not talking. It wasn't great, I wouldn't really call it fun, but it helped a lot.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.