My apprentices are now at the point where they can fully heal one body before it dies nearly every time. That means that I need to make it more challenging for them. So what I did was I took a pair of gemstones of roughly equal capacity and had them try to heal using only the mana contained within. I want them to be able to not only be able to heal any injury, but to do it in the worst possible conditions.

Junior is doing alright. She isn’t at the point where she can actually fully heal a body with limited mana yet, but she is doing much better than Askos. With his much more mana intensive method of healing Askos is struggling quite a bit. Based on what they have accomplished already it won’t be too long before they are able to keep a body alive.

Askos has been blaming himself a lot less for his own failures, which is a good thing. If he kept blaming himself then I would be worried that he would eventually get too frustrated and quit entirely. With the constant failures caused by me making everything as hard as I can failure has become routine and mundane, at least in his mind, while success is something a lot more important. Though he does get irritated when I make things harder for him, so far that has proven to be an effective training method.

I work them hard but I don’t work them constantly, though Junior would absolutely practice day and night if I let her and things like sleep didn’t get in the way. She still sticks to me even when we aren’t training. Askos, on the other hand, mostly spends his downtime doting on his siblings. From what I’ve heard he is technically the youngest of them by half an hour but he acts more like their older brother, which make sense because he does have memories of a past life. Makes him a bit more emotionally mature than others if nothing else.

So I wasn’t too surprised when I heard that Askos was with an injured person and needed my help really badly. When I arrived I found Askos and an older man hovering over a much smaller mangled and scarred form in the street while Askos was doing his best to keep her alive. The smaller form turned out to be the daughter of the older man and was missing three arms and both of her legs, in addition to widespread internal injuries and some kind of poison or venom that was making her body resist the effects of healing, something beyond either of my apprentice’s ability to heal.

The child had hours left to live with Askos’s help, maybe a couple minutes without it. Junior likely would have tried and failed to heal the kid all on her own without considering asking for help. He made the right call asking me for help.

The poison took quite a bit of effort to fix, but overwhelming amounts of mana was more than enough to drive it out of her system. From there the internal injuries were easy enough to heal.the missing limbs were another story. They had been missing for long enough that traditional healing wouldn’t be able to do anything about them so I had to completely regrow them without a template to work from. Nothing I haven't done before, but it takes a lot more work to make sure everything is working right without being lopsided or ugly.

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After healing the girl and putting her to sleep, so she wouldn’t feel the worst of the side effects of having new limbs grown on her body, I talked with the father. Apparently, his daughter was attacked after unknowing wandering into a dungeon about a month ago. The low-quality healing potions he had access to were enough to keep her alive, but they weren’t enough to even try to fight off the poison. All of the healers in his village weren’t able to do anything about the poison so he set off to find a master healer that he had heard about, me. Had it not been for the teleportation abilities recently added to my trees they wouldn’t have made it before their supply of potions ran out and she died. With a smile on his face and joy in his voice he told me, and the growing audience, about his long hike across hostile terrain doing everything from fighting off a bear ten times his size with his daughter tied onto his back to waking up constantly every night to make sure she was still breathing. Everyone agreed, the story was very inspiring and before the end of the day everyone in the city was repeating it to anyone who would listen.

While certainly interesting, that whole thing didn’t take very long. I ended up spending most of my day experimenting with the ocean. It was pretty immediately obvious that it is incredibly acidic. Anything that is able to survive out in the ocean, even if only for a limited amount of time, has some kind of very durable hard shell to keep liquids out. A lot of the fish I saw being brought in by the few creates capable of, or stupid enough too, go out onto the ocean to fish had scales or other protective layers made out of glass. The stuff is surprisingly resistant to damage but shatters into hundreds of sharp shards the moment it is damaged, potentially ruining the meat and killing the fish if it is still alive. Not that it matters too much in the ocean as any damage to that out layer would result in a very rapid death from the acid.

This makes things a lot more difficult to figure out how to get my plants into the ocean. Everything I have seen able to traverse the ocean uses some method to keep out all liquids, which isn’t an option for my plants. Wood is very porous and if I seal up those pores then the plant slowly dies. And that alone wouldn’t be enough, none of my plants are able to resist the acid permanently, if they were this wouldn’t be an issue. I did try just regenerating the plant faster than it gets destroyed, I wasn’t able to repair it nearly fast enough after taking into account the sheer number of plants I would need.

I think my best bet is either a plant made entirely of glass, which is theoretically possible but I’ve never seen before, or a plant related to acid, which is something I would be able to buy. I might eventually be able to pull it off with Mithrilwood but I have no idea what it would actually take to do that, besides, making a glass tree would be much more interesting.

After buying the alchemy building the other day I don’t have enough to buy the acid plant, which is surprisingly expensive compared to other plants. So, for now, it looks like I am going to be trying to make a plant with glass. I have no idea how to do this, and I am choosing this over Mithrilwood mostly because I think a glass tree would be pretty, but I’m looking forward to the challenge.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Tiddol. The workshop was more empty than I’ve seen it in a long time as all of the alchemists were trying to figure out how to make the facility I got the other day working, so I took her away from her work so we could go out to eat. I don’t eat every day, but when I do I make sure it is only the best food. Tiddol was grateful for the break. The food was good, not the best I have eaten. For dessert, we had chocolate cake, made with real chocolate. It was my first time eating chocolate, and it was good, but not worth the price tag. The fake stuff tastes just as good as the real stuff. Still, it was a good experience.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.