Two days, I give it two more days before I can come to the rescue of our great Emperor. As long as nothing happens in that time we will be just fine. Their common soldiers are nothing noteworthy, at least not compared to our own, and the few elites that they have currently on the field aren't enough to overcome our own quite yet, but they are trying to leverage their own surplus of elites to their advantage, and given enough time they will succeed. We have no idea what 'enough time' means here.

But there is nothing I can do that I am not already doing, so I shouldn't worry about it. I do worry about it, but I shouldn't. I am already expanding my forest towards them as fast as I possibly can without opening up vulnerabilities that would potentially cripple us. Creating more supplies for them with magic would be a waste of mana, it's better spent moving quickly. On such a short time scale designing something new for our craftsmen to create would be a waste of time, we would waste more time teaching them how to work everything than we would make up for with that item. The only thing I might be able to do is to buy something from the terminal that I could send to the front lines, but any discreet item I could buy feels like a waste of money and buying the schematics to make anything would be a waste of mana.

So really I should relax. But there is nothing to do. Pretty much every avenue of entertainment that I had has dried up. There are no more restaurants, and besides, there isn't anyone to go out to eat with right now. No more stores, and that isn't any fun without company. There is no new art in the caverns, and seeing the old stuff is fun, but it feels dull without a companion. My dad, who would usually love to tell me stories of his youth, is off on the front lines with his soldiers. Tiddol is busier than the other craftsmen, there are some very valuable supplies that only she can make efficiently, and it's the same story with nearly everyone else. Everyone is scrambling to deal with the current crisis, and no one, except me, can afford to take any free time.

I'm bored, and there isn't anything valuable I can do with my time without using mana. And there is very little entertainment left. Maybe the scholars will lend me a book, it isn't like they are doing much else for us.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.