Today is the last day Shirliex will be my tutor, I have learned everything she is willing to teach me. She’ll be going back home tomorrow from the teleporter in pearlhold.

I was attacked by assassins today, not too big of a deal. It’s just something that happens from time to time. If they are too much for me to take down on my own I can always teleport away, which almost never happens.

Anyway, this time they interrupted my lessons, and Shirliex was pissed. It isn’t often that you see people getting ripped limb from limb by someone of similar stature to me. None of them actually died, it is pretty hard to die when you have a master healer nearby, plus I would feel bad if they did end up dying. Some soldiers took them and locked them up afterward, so everything worked out in the end.

I took a bit of time to incorporate a form of Pyre that was designed to put out fire into all of my trees. It worked wonders, no matter how much I tried to light them on fire I failed. I even had Tiddol use some alchemical solutions designed to create a sticky, lasting flame and even that failed to light the trees. I am confident that nothing short of a true immortal pyromancer or plant manipulator could light my trees on fire, of course, if that happens then I have bigger problems.

Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author's preferred platform and support their work!

I also incorporated it into my body. It was a bit more difficult than I expected, but by taking it slow and making sure nothing could possibly go wrong I managed to pull it off. I am basically immune to fire now, and I can manipulate it. I don’t see this really being useful beyond the defensive applications. Might be useful if I ever want to cook something.

Tiddol was happy about the new plant, apparently fire was a missing ingredient in a lot of potions she wanted to make. Also, she seems to have retained the ability to conjure the exact thing she needs for whatever product she’s working on as long as I have access to the relevant plants. It's not something she has much control over beyond what would be required for that magic to work. Is this a result of my influence? She was able to make use of Pyre the moment I bought it, before I even created any of it, so it is very likely that is the case.

Now she is begging me to buy a bunch more plants, which does help with my guilt of using the money I got from her creations for myself. I’ll look over my options tomorrow, maybe I’ll find something interesting?

Other than that I spent my free time with Azrezel, doing what couples do when they are alone together.

I should probably mention that I have not slept since evolving, ignoring immediately afterward where I used some painkillers to knock myself out. I think that is the effect Ergen is having on me, I no longer need to sleep at all. At least I hope that is what is happening. Even my sleep aid is useless here. The only thing that can make me sleep is a bunch of potent Flore, but that causes damage to my body and invalidates most of the benefits of sleeping. So I probably shouldn’t do that.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.