Yesterday was a disaster, but not an unmitigated one.

About halfway through the day, I was ambushed from above my forest, beyond the ability of trees to detect. They shot me with some kind of projectile enchanted with the plant destroying enchantment. Were my soul bound to anything other than my dungeon core I would have died right there, instead I was merely rendered unconscious due to the pain of having my entire body disintegrated instantly. I am glad that I cannot remember the pain.

I was stupid to assume that I would not be targeted when assassination attempts were the core of their strategy from the very beginning. Why did it never occur to me to use the countermeasures we had developed on myself? That should have been the first thing I did, I am made of plants after all.

I am lucky that my people were able to instantly respond to my distress and flock to my aid, without my hivemind or the teleportation system it is quite likely that the enemy would have been able to capitalize on my moment of vulnerability to kill me. Instead, the attackers fled without attempting anything. I knew I made the right choice when I decided to focus more on improving the lives of my people.

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While I made minimal progress over the last couple days, due in large part to my pain induced unconsciousness that even Flore wasn't able to mitigate, the enchanters approached their work with a renewed vigor, and it showed. While they lacked any particular inspiration they worked their way through the grunt work in record speed, which is the only reliable way to make progress. They were able to add thousands of potential variations to the defensive enchantments, easily tripling what was there before. On top of that, they redesigned the whole thing in a way that has everything overlap in a way that dramatically reduces the required complexity and mana cost to achieve the same results. Not a new idea, and in fact it is an idea that they have been working to implement for quite a while. But with an enchantment so big and diverse it takes a lot of effort to pull off correctly.

Other than that I hung out with Jasmine today, mostly it was her trying to console me and also getting angry about not being able to rip everything apart to find the person responsible for almost killing me. I think she has gotten a little attached to me. Also, it was weird having someone who is super angry try to calm me down while I am otherwise calm.

Tiddol and Azrezel were also similarly angry, but their abilities actually let them do something without destroying everything in the process. So naturally, they were out doing something, namely hunting down as many of the enemy soldiers as they can and bringing them in to be interrogated by Ents specializing in using Lace.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.