Day one of minimal access to mana and I’m already bored out of my mind. Any mana I do get immediately goes to helping the trees recover.

The mana berries were exhausted before I went to bed last night, apparently, Tiddol and other alchemists used up a lot more of them than I thought. I did manage to fully rejuvenate a couple trees though, which does slightly increase my mana production. The change isn’t really dramatic though, as each individual tree doesn’t offer all that much mana to me.

I watched Thes fight yesterday, the first time since his evolution. Before he was powerful, only Mest could beat him in a fight and that was only because of very specific countermeasures. Now his sheer power fills me with awe, he cut through masses of friends and foes alike in a barely controlled rage. With Mest able to point him in the right direction he was like a force of nature, breathing fire on scores of enemies one moment and claiming their heads with his axe the next. Not even the mightiest of blows could bring him down. And that is terrifying.

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There was only one title I can use to describe Thes, True Immortal. He has claimed immortality through nothing short of brute physical force, and Mest seems to agree. And we have to figure out a way to subdue him when he finally snaps.

If he snaps, we still haven’t given up hope for solving his anger issues.

To make matters worse, the fighting didn’t help Thes. actually, that’s not entirely correct. The fighting itself did help Thes, but the aftermath only made him worse. He personally trained many of the dead soldiers.

I spent most of the day trying to find something to do. I can’t assist in rebuilding, I can’t mess around with my plants, I can’t go around healing people, and I can’t do a dozen other things because they all require mana. I’m not exactly physically strong or durable, not without some mana at least, so I can’t even lend my physical labour, I would just get in the way if I tried.

Anyone that I would hang out with is either busy helping out or dead. And it just feels wrong to do some of the more frivolous activities like games or reading.

So I ended up trying to find something to busy myself with between dumping any mana I had accumulated into my grove. I wasn’t very successful.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.