I spent the day practicing with Solar Energy in order to prepare for my own evolution tomorrow. I’ve evolved plants with Solar Energy enough at this point that I am confident in my ability to trigger a Solar Energy evolution in myself. I have no idea how long it is going to take so I cleared my schedule just in case.

We were attacked yesterday, and things didn’t go perfectly according to plan. Most of the soldiers were subdued, but more than expected were able to resist the pollen. They were able to cause quite a bit of damage before they were put down, destroying several buildings and killing several of our soldiers. Despite that, it was a one-sided victory for us. There were easily a thousand soldiers, all of them incredibly well trained.

They sent their elite after us, I imagine that doing anything less would be a massive waste of mana. Just as hard to send a novice soldier as it is to send a highly skilled one. Of course, this means we needed better cells than we thought we would, but that is simply an issue of a bit of mana, something I can easily supply. It will take a bit of work to get them to the point that they can be useful, but even just spending time in my territory would accomplish that sooner or later.

Tiddol still hasn’t stopped her creative fervor. She has created dozens, if not hundreds of new clockwork creatures. I don’t think she has realized that she is creating the gears and other parts all on her own now, without any assistance from my Ents. The only thing she needs help with is actually bringing the thing to life, which is simple enough for me. She only stops to take care of her physical needs, and even then she eats and drinks so fast that I doubt she can even taste what she’s eating, and she isn’t sleeping at all. I’m worried she’s going to burn herself out at this rate, but there is obviously something magical going on here and I’m worried that stopping her will hurt her. Recovering from burnout just takes time and rest, I don’t know what recovering from having a powerful spell interrupted in your body would take, if it would even be possible in the first place. So I won’t interrupt her, and I’ll make sure her body stays in one piece.

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Now that Azrezel and I understand how brains work a lot better, though we still have no idea on the why, we are making a lot more progress towards refining the brains of the undead than we were before.

I created a telepathic link with Azrezel using a bit of Lace today, at his request of course. We can’t read each other's thoughts, but we can send thoughts to each other. It’s fun, and more than a little distracting, but it is also pretty useful when we work together, and it is easy enough to shut down my end of it if I really need to concentrate.

I’ve done something similar with other people in the past, but the difference in the speed of thought between me and most other people makes that a bit frustrating. Not with Azrezel though, or at least nowhere near as bad. His undead don’t provide him with enough mental prowess to match my trees, but they come much closer than anyone else does.

Other than that not a lot happened today. Tomorrow looks like it’s going to be a big deal.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.