I am almost done refining all of the gear, and I am mass producing them faster than I thought I would. I should be done with everything by tomorrow. Then I can move onto the next project.

Tiddol is making rapid progress on her clockwork, thing. It’s growing bigger much faster anyway, and it’s not like the individual pieces are getting any bigger. Quite the opposite they are getting much smaller, to the point where she needs a bit of telekinetic magic to even put them where they need to be. It seems she’s hit on some kind of inspiration.

The actual pieces are mostly made out of plants a pair of Ents are producing for her, with a couple made of magical metals. It seems one of the Ents set up a sort of mind link, allowing them to communicate at the speed of thought. The result is that every time Tiddol reaches for a part it is right there in her hand. Convenient.

It still just looks like a blob of gears to me, a distinctly larger blob of gears, yes, but a blob of gears nonetheless. It is too soon to determine to the purpose of it quite yet, but I am looking forward to it.

While working on the undead we continued to refine the big-brained ones. It was actually a lot easier than we expected to improve them, it is still slow, but not nearly as slow. I say that but what we are actually doing is just making the brain as big as we can, it takes time to build it up and it takes time to reinforce the body so that it can support the brain. We aren’t too concerned with the body itself, but we don’t want it breaking cause that means the brain is probably going to hit the ground. We had it happen once, gore everywhere. It popped like a balloon. It was made worse by the incredibly thin skull, the body can’t really support the weight of a skull thick enough to properly protect the brain.

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Now that I think about it, why don’t we remove the body entirely? It would make it much easier to work if we don’t have to constantly worry about reinforcing the body. If I am thinking about it like I think about plant manipulation that would be the logical first step, remove everything that isn’t contributing to my desired end result. Yeah, I think that is what we are going to do.

Other than that I spent some time with my dad. According to Par his soldiers are remarkably well trained despite how little time they have had to actually be trained, which means that my father’s rather cruel training method does exactly what it is supposed to. Is it really that cruel if it gets results? I mean the soldiers are objectively better off in pretty much every way. Their skills at self-healing are enough that the only way that they are going to die is if they run out of mana, and considering their rather high mana pools I don’t think they will be too big of an issue unless they start needing to reform their entire bodies on repeat. And when the eventually retire there isn’t much that could be a threat to them, or any family members or other loved ones of theirs, unless they somehow piss off someone powerful. At the point they are at random attacks simply wouldn’t be a threat, anyone with real power doesn’t need to rely on that kind of thing to get what they want. Basically, as long as they serve their time as soldiers for us and don’t piss off anyone more powerful than themselves then they can do pretty much whatever they want once they retire. And pretty much all of them are either immortal or could easily become immortal if they wanted too, thanks to their skill in self-healing.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.