Today I visited Dulcian on the invisible island for the first time in a while. Yesterday when I said that I had enough nuclear bombs to level their cities I wasn't completely sure. Now I know that my estimate was way off, Dulcian already has enough nuclear bombs to level the entire continent. He ran out of storage space for them a long time ago and has only kept the best of the best, and he has gotten very good. He has had to constantly expand and improve the facility just to keep from damaging the environment around it, he tried to explain to me how exactly he improved it but I get a feeling that he isn't sure why everything he did works in the first place.

As for Dulcian himself, I have never seen so much excess. I am providing him almost everything that he could ask for, but seeing the results is something else. He has more than a dozen slaves, and while he isn't cruel they don't seem to be doing much productive. A bunch of men and women just sitting there, looking pretty for him in every way they can imagine. He has an entire warehouse dedicated to cured meats, not just any old meat either, the type of stuff that takes a team of powerful adventurers to kill, often with several deaths in the process.

He even set up an entire winery, complete with a massive garden to harvest fruits from, above the underground complex, and given a year or so I'm pretty sure it would be able to sustain his lavish lifestyle on it's own. This is a good thing, as soon I won't be able to sustain it myself. In order to ensure his loyalty to my people I took some time today to design an entirely new type of Ent whose sole purpose is to tend too, manage, and ensure a profit from the winery. I don't want to be guilty of breaking promises, or at least minimize any guilt.

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Keeping his services is expensive, especially now, but it is worth it given what he has given us, and his obvious loyalty. At this point I am confident that he would do anything short of die for me, which is exactly what I wanted from him in the beginning.

This display of opulence feels off, almost wrong, to me with what has happened recently. I can get over it, but it still feels eerie. Besides, he has given us exactly the tools we need to strike back against our enemies. And with my massively increasing mana production thanks to Requiem, we will arrive at their gates soon.

I only took a break because Tiddol outright abducted me and forced me to sit down and relax. I'm not sure why she's worried about me, I feel fine, great even, driven. More so than usual. I am quite possibly doing some of my best work ever right now, the new type of Ent I created today is easily one of my most effective creations ever. I always work best when I have a goal, and never before has my goal been so important. But, I care about Tiddol a lot, I don't want her to worry any more than she has too. So, for her sake, I will take a break and relax. I wonder if Dulcian would share some of his cured meats with me, they looked and smelled amazing.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.