Today I finished curing Azrezel of his necrotic taint. I have to say, evolving has done wonders for someone who was already a wonder to look at. When people say that everything is improved when you evolve, they mean that literally.

The type of high-grade Demon Glass I want is way outside of my price range. There are three or four people that are not only capable of making it but are also willing to sell the stuff they make, and even when they do sell it they are intentionally selling tiny amounts of it. I definitely don’t have the kind of resources to get ahold of it, unless I buy it from the terminal.

There isn’t any on the market right now, and the information to actually produce the stuff is ludicrously expensive, but I can see about what it normally goes for when it is on sale. It is pushing it a bit, but I can afford to get a decent sized piece of the right quality. Since I’ll be putting out a request it will be more expensive than it normally would be, and I doubt I will be able to make any kind of meaningful purchase in the near future after this, but I can get it. Another downside of putting out a request is that I have no idea when it will get fulfilled, so I have no idea when I’m going to get it.

Thinking about my limits with mana made me think about my other limits, in particular, one relating to plant manipulation. I’m reaching a limit with how many times I can think in parallel. It was increasing rapidly when I was working on refining Luck Blossom, but now it has slowed to a crawl. I can manage almost two hundred at peak efficiency, any more and efficiency drops like a rock. Evolving was a huge boon there, but I can’t seem to make any meaningful progress. At the rate I’m going I’ll get to three hundred in about a year, maybe a year and a half. I don’t want to wait that long so I need to think of a way to fix this problem.

Let’s see, what potential ways could I solve this issue? Flesh manipulation is out, for the same reasons I won’t experiment on myself unless I am actively evolving. Astrie does work, but it comes at a cost and is a temporary solution at best. Spellwood? I wouldn’t even know how to begin. Pipeweed? Possibly, probably not. That weird mushroom I found controlling tiny creatures? Maybe. At the very least it seems like it is related to thinking. I’ll have to experiment with it to see what it can do.

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Three, no make that Four things at the top of my list to do. In no particular order, the first is to practice examining a body, probably mine as no other would handle Solar Energy, with Solar Energy. The second is to finish digesting the rope of knowledge I got from my ancestor, I am maybe a tenth of the way done with that. The third is to figure out a way to make myself think better, possibly involving the mushroom I am now calling Lace. The fourth is to spend time with Azrezel.

The first one will likely take the least amount of time, so I should get that one done first. I might even be able to get it done within an hour or so, fifteen minutes maximum. The fourth one I’ll be doing whenever possible. The other two have almost nothing to do with each other. Working on one won’t make it easier or faster to work on the other, I can’t do them both at the same time, and I have no idea how long either of them will take.

I guess the question is whether I want to focus on healing or plants more. Plants, the answer is plants. It has been so long since I’ve really done a lot with plants. Yeah I have been constantly growing my grove and I did refine White Foot a little bit ago, but growing my grove is so simple as to effectively be done without conscious thought, while White Foot is all about healing.

I didn’t get much done during my downtime today. I was rather distracted by, shall we say, admiring Azrezel’s new form.

I’ve also noticed that my previously flat chest has been growing recently, quite a bit actually. I hope it doesn’t grow too much because I’ve heard that can cause back pain, which wouldn’t be too big of a deal because I can just heal it, but it still seems like more of a hassle than it’s worth.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.