I was right, making my core more powerful does increase my mana pool. After all was said and done it was increased by half, a surprisingly small amount when you consider just how much mana a lot of the basic functions of a dungeon consumes. And I was also correct in thinking that my mana pool was restricting my ability to control my mana, but not in the way I had thought. Where I had thought that it limited how much mana was able to flow out, similar to how pipeweed functions where only so much mana or solar energy is able to flow through it at a time, instead increasing the size of my pool seems to decrease the effect that the unformed and chaotic mana coming into my pool has on the stuff going out. It gives it a chance to sit and calm down before focusing on something new. If it weren't for my hivemind I would have started having problems with this sometime last year, it takes quite a bit of concentration to force mana to settle like that, but unless it gets really bad, like what happened to me, it is only a lot on the scale of a single spell, doing it in mass is a lot easier.

All of that is to say that my immediate concerns are dealt with and now I can focus all of my efforts on taking the enemy capital. The faster I reach it the better. But I can't really take any of my Paladins away from crafting if I can help it, the army is already struggling with a lack of supplies. If they don't get as much support as we are able to offer they might collapse under the onslaught of the enemy before I can provide support.

So I spent the bulk of my day designing a tree that I can grow extremely quickly, that supports the infrastructure I have already built up, and that I can easily improve to be on the level of my other trees. And now that it is complete I don't think it will take long at all to reach Parius.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Azrezel, blowing off some steam in the bedroom. I definitely needed that.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.