Creating requiem is coming along nicely, by tomorrow it should have doubled my mana production. This is a fair bit faster than I had expected it to progress, I didn't really understand just how fast the rate I would be able to build them would increase. And there is no sign of it slowing down either, I'm doubling my mana production in two days. I can cause significant damage to the entire world with this if I wanted too, I can't let myself double it more than two more times, past that and I'm worried something bad will happen on a scale that I can't imagine.

This whole process started with me trying to figure out what the best shape for Requiem to be in was, only to rapidly figure out that just making entire trees out of little more than Requiem was the most effective method. It wasn't the most productive method, that was a complicated lattice network that allowed mana to flow through it very easily, but it was the one that maximized the amount of mana that I can get ahold of.

Already I am running into issues with this plan, namely my mana pool. My mana production has always been significantly higher than other people with my mana pool, by several orders of magnitude. Until now I have been using gemstones to compensate, and today my Demon Glass, the old low-quality stone that Mest gave me for my birthday, broke.

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I feel numb. Just numb. It's another casualty in this brutal, bloody war.

It was the one of the last two items I had from the brothers, and they were brothers, by everything except blood. Everything else was destroyed when my house was destroyed by the enemy the first time. Now the only thing left is the knife Thes gave me, it hasn't been used yet.

My mana pool has not expanded significantly since I last evolved, the high-quality demon glass does improve, but not very fast. It would take decades to get what I need out of it. And with how much constant stress I am under my dungeon core is maturing a lot, at the expense of power, and power is what matters when it comes to mana pool size. If I could get ahold dead dungeon cores that would go a long way to solving that issue, but I can't turn living dungeons into dead ones. Ignoring the fact that murdering innocent neutral parties is something I want to avoid when possible, slaughtering my fellow dungeons would see them ganging up to murder me. And if they find out that I am buying dungeon cores then that could cause some more issues. And it's not like we have any on hand, I have already absorbed all of them.

I don't know if increasing the size of my mana pool will actually matter, but there isn't much I can do about it right now. I don't have enough money in the terminal to buy anything big enough to matter, and the scholars claim that they don't have anything on hand. Buying something like that from a private seller could take months if I'm unlucky. So I just have to hope that nothing happens.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.