I made more progress perfecting my armor, but nothing really noteworthy. This isn’t really the type of thing that would benefit from a sudden inspiration, it is almost entirely brute force grunt work, a thousand minor things and nothing major. The only way for me to go faster without spending more time on it is to get better at fixing those minor issues, something I am already pretty good at.

I have started to feel a very slight increase in my mana production lately, which is odd because this time of year plants start to produce less mana. I knew this was going to happen because the scholar that Mest invited, I can’t remember his name but he was the one that studied developing dungeons, told me about what to expect. Apparently, I am just now starting to absorb wasted mana. It is very similar to the wasted soul energy that helped me recover from creating the Ents. specifically what happens is this; when someone’s mana pool is full they don’t stop absorbing ambient mana, instead, it overflows and becomes ambient mana again. I somehow absorb that wasted mana significantly better than ambient mana. On top of that, any spell cast by all but the best mages has at least some wasted mana, and again I can absorb a portion of that.

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How much of it I can absorb will increase as my core matures and grows in strength, my core is actually rather immature to be absorbing wasted mana but because of it’s abnormal strength comparatively I can do just a tiny amount.

As for what my own wasted mana does, that depends on how it’s wasted. Any waste from a spell I cast will be absorbed in the same manner as everything else. But if my mana pool overflows then that waste will go towards strengthening my core.

Too bad I never have a full mana pool. With the additions of so many gemstones, including my core functioning as one, and a rather sizable decrease in mana production lately as a result of the season my mana pool is never full. Not that it really matters to me, my core is already well above average and making it just a little stronger isn’t that interesting to me.

It is nice to know that my spells are becoming more efficient regardless of what I do.

Oh yeah, the reports about Ents in dungeons are continuing to stream in, though nothing really noteworthy yet. It feels weird having a creation of mine become such a big deal, though i’m not sure if that's more from the dungeons or the scholars researching them. It is a point of pride that my work is being acknowledged by some of the most powerful creatures alive, origin can’t compete because they lack the numbers they use to have.

Anyway, Good Night Diary