Today I found out that my apprentices have never actually used the wings on their backs. Their parents died before they got a chance to teach their kids how to use them, they weren’t strong enough at the time. Now, however, things are different. They have grown to the point that their wings are big and strong enough to carry their weight, and they have some natural talent with it, but they have no idea how to actually fly. I know even less than them about flying.

I found them the best teacher I possibly could, or rather I had someone else find the best teacher. I don’t know people but I do know people who know people. They’re smart kids, it shouldn’t take them too long to figure out how to fly properly. Once they do it will be another variable I can introduce to their training.

After getting that settled I spent the first part of my day learning how to make glass. Tiddol did know, but she also had someone working under her that knew much better, so she directed me to talk to him. The guy knew a lot, but the gist of it boiled down to glass is normally made out of molten sand and there is a lot of stuff that changes the final result. Ultimately I just decided to have him personally help me create a cave made out of glass instead of trying to figure out exactly what I need to do myself. It should work out better that way.

With Digger Root allowing me some control over dirt, which does extend to sand, I can form a cave and keep it stable long enough to melt the sand with Pyre. With Digger Root I am also able to modify the components of the sand, I can’t really control the contents but I do have some crude control over things like size and shape of the grains of sand.

We ran into quite a few issues along the way, most of them on my end. The biggest one was the fact that I have no actual skill using these plants, it isn’t something I have really done before. So we had a number of false starts before things really got going. Properly following instructions was also difficult because of my lack of experience, so it was a little difficult to get the sand just right. The last major problem was the fact that the sand got pretty runny as it melted, making the roof a lot thinner than we expected. Though that did leave a lot of stalagmites and stalactites made of glass. Luckily the roof was strong enough to hold up the dirt above it.

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The glass is incredibly clear and harder than iron, not the fragile stuff I’m used to seeing. While it is clear, there are many imperfections in it, preventing light from perfectly radiating through it. It was a lot darker than I was hoping it was going to be so we decided to make the glass go all the way up to the surface at several points to let some more light in, which had the added benefit of letting people see the cave from above.

The cave itself is really pretty. The light streams down from the surface and reflects off of the small imperfections in the blueish glass, lighting up the cave in a way that I never would have expected. I can see the sand and dirt just passed the walls, and bubbles and ripples in those walls. The stalactite hand from the ceiling in smooth stretches of glass, while the stalagmites are full of marks where one drop of molten glass fell onto the rest.

I think it was the right call to try and make a glass tree. Not that this was enough to have any success. We’re going to keep building and slowly turn this into a massive complex of caverns until I succeed at creating a glass plant.

Other than that I hung out with Azrezel today. It’s been a while since I’ve checked up on his projects. Currently, he is pushing for an evolution, but he doesn’t want me to trigger it for him. Normally this rate of evolving would be ridiculous, but he is both inside an area where evolving is easy and he is actively pushing the boundaries of necromancy, so it isn’t too unreasonable.

As for his actual project, he recently got ahold of the corpse of a true immortal cultivator, someone who focused on using Solar Energy to improve themselves. The species of the corpse is something called a greater archdevil and was in perfect condition. He is planning on raising it and is almost done with all of the preparations. Naturally, I want to watch him pull this off, and he wants me to be there when he does because this is quite a bit beyond what he normally does. He might mess up and seriously injure himself so he wants me there in case he is unable to heal himself. He’s going to try tomorrow evening, by then everything will be in place.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.