Today I continued working on surgery and fixing Azrezel’s necrotic taint. I made steady progress, things are getting easier and easier on both fronts for various reasons.

It was a slow and relaxing day today. Or as slow and relaxing as cutting up corpses to learn about how they work can be. I got covered by a surprising amount of blood today, practically head to toe. Well, I mean it isn’t too surprising because I did heal the body completely between each thing I did. Cleaning up was much more difficult than it had any right to be.

I’ll be honest, surgery isn’t very fun. I’m glad I can basically cheat and digest the knowledge I need from it rapidly. I should be done with surgery by tomorrow, at least until someone needs me to remove an arrow or I need to operate on a troll. Though if I have to operate on a troll then they must be truly desperate as it means their natural regeneration is gone or otherwise useless.

I fixed up Azrezel’s skin today, or at least I made quite a bit of progress on removing the Necrotic taint there. With his heart working again and his skin being so brittle he was bleeding nearly constantly, it should be much better now. Though part of that was that I think he is cuter when his skin has a healthy glow instead of being all grey and shriveled. Maybe next I’ll fix his muscles. I definitely know which part of him I am fixing last though if I fix his nervous system before anything else he will be in constant pain until everything is fixed. Right now he simply can’t feel pain.

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Other than that I was talking to Par when an envoy of some kind made an entrance by greeting ‘Lord Parius the Magnificent’ by his full title. It was actually kind of amusing watching all the flourish the envoy added like he was performing some grand play. Par and the envoy spent the next couple minutes talking about trade agreements with one of the nearby city-states, and though I don’t know much about trade Par seemed to be more than a little satisfied by the results, while the envoy was sweating bullets.

Looking solely at the species the envoy is way higher up than Par, but you wouldn’t get that impression of the situation at all just from looking. Par could likely wipe the floor with the envoy in combat while at the same time backing him into a corner with his words alone. It’s really impressive what this ugly little goblin has become since Tiddol and I took him in and taught him to read.

Par is ready to evolve, by the looks of it he has been for a while. However, if he evolves now it will likely end up lackluster, and so, with a force of will, he is suppressing the hand of the world that is trying to force him to evolve. It is nothing too difficult, I do it all the time when refining plants, but it also a little draining. I couldn’t imagine doing that constantly for days. I wonder what he is planning on doing as a show of force before he lets himself evolve, maybe not evolving is the show of force. I don’t know, I forgot to ask.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.