We reached our second city today, this one did not join as nearly as willing as the previous one. It has massive plant destroying enchantments covering the walls, how they pulled an enchantment of that scale we have no idea. It is very crude, according to our enchanters. It relies on overwhelming resources to work it's magic, and it definitely does have overwhelming resources.

The city has yet to be claimed by us, I could take it right now if I wanted to but that would require revealing the trump card that is our ability to counter these enchantments by any method other than the most simple one. So instead I have been trying to destroy the enchantments the old fashioned way while others are trying to turn them off in different ways. Unfortunately, the inhabitants seem dead set on keeping us out of the city. If it weren't for the fact that most of our best soldiers were augmented with plants this wouldn't be nearly so difficult.

I have no idea if we are making progress towards taking the city, and it is diverting valuable manpower from the front. I can only keep hammering away at its enchantments directly, attempting to counter their ridiculous amounts of mana with my own. This city simply isn't valuable enough to reveal my trump card for.

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Maybe I could try a different method. instead of going through the walls why not go over them? It would be very difficult to grow a plant that goes over the walls without getting close enough to be destroyed by them while also avoiding being destroyed by the inhabitants. But I think I could do it. Then I could take out their center and we would have a bridge inside.

It is worth a shot at least.

Other than that I spent some time talking to Par, who was in the city for the day to get some supplies. Things are going well on his end, with so many troops diverted to deal with me their war effort has been a breeze. And with their focus on killing soldiers and destroying supplies, the enemy is being given little chance to recover. A tactic straight from their own book. And if we keep killing lots of soldiers then eventually mercenaries will stop working with them, regardless of how many resources they have.

As much as I'm glad she's not part of the fighting right now, I'm worried about the fact that Willow hasn't shown up yet. Ignoring the fact that I want to talk to her, to understand why she betrayed us, she is a threat to us. She could easily stop us in our tracks for a little while if she wanted to, but she hasn't. So what is she doing that is so important? Hopefully, she's having some kind of personal crisis and is regretting joining with the enemy, but somehow I doubt it.

I'm going to have to burn my Fate soon. I have no idea what I should try to spend it on.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.