There is nothing really to note about the Ent today. It was a bit slower today for reasons I will detail below.

I had a pretty interesting conversation with Par today. He told me about something that happened recently. He was escorting Willow through the nearby area, something he assures me happens on a semi-regular basis, when a feral, non-sentient, humanoid attack them. He believes the humanoid was a halfling, which wasn’t particularly important all in all, getting attacked by feral creatures when you don’t have a veritable army close by (like par’s tribe) is pretty common around here. No, what was really interesting was what this feral halfling was carrying. He was carrying a stone, not a dungeon core but a gemstone. The stone was pretty high quality, but rather small. Apparently, gemstones are able to be used to store mana in them, a necessity for any mage.

Ultimately Par gave the stone to Willow, I didn’t really need or want it, Mest has plenty already, and no one else that he had considered giving the stone to could use it. It ended up boosting her storage by about a tenth, or at least that’s my understanding.

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I offered to make a necklace or a ring for her to help her not lost the stone, and she asked me to make a necklace. So naturally, I went all out. I made the necklace out of the Astrie plant, only modified a bit. Just normal Astrie would be useless for this. I modified it’s magical properties so that instead of making a shield or amplifying magical abilities when used it acts as a pathway between the gemstone and the host. When Willows mana dips below half it will siphon mana from the gemstone and into her mana pool, and vice versa if she’s almost full. Naturally, it takes a sliver of the mana to sustain itself. Though I say it’s a necklace it is closer to one of my armors, in that it sticks into the skin and won't come off unless either she or I want to take it off, otherwise, it has to be destroyed.

Designing and creating the necklace took the better part of a unit of time on the clock, another thing I need a better name for, maybe one already exists? Even Mest was impressed by the result and asked me to make him something similar.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.