My apprentices are rapidly learning how to fly and are only crashing about once every half an hour now. They still need to work on landings though. It will be a day or two before they will be good enough at flying to return to learning under me.

With most of the issues figured out it wasn’t very hard to start expanding the caverns. We added five new caves of various sizes onto the existing cave, making sure you could see through the glass from one cave to the adjacent ones without dirt and sand getting in the way. We’ve also built up a mound of material outside of the entrance, once we are done I will turn that into glass as well.

Despite having as many plants as I could evolving as often as I could I only had one that did anything, and it wasn’t really what I wanted. One of the plants developed clear leaves. Not glass leaves, that would have been a success, just normal leaves that are somehow clear.

Though I did realize something. Two creatures of the same species tend to evolve into the same thing when they evolve close together. I already knew that, but I forgot to take it into account with this project. I was using a bunch of copies of a mundane flower when I should have been using a bunch of different plants for maximum effect. Hopefully, that is what has been missing, or at least makes things go a bit faster.

Azrezel’s attempted evolution was very interesting. Not because he actually evolved, though he came really close, but because it was the first time I had ever felt the Fate of another person. As soon as Azrezel finished raising the corpse I felt quite a bit of fate balance itself, about what I would be able to build up in a week.

The original soul that occupied that body came back to it in the process of evolving, in nearly perfect condition based on my limited knowledge of souls. Unfortunately this means that this undead is way too powerful for Azrezel to control it, fortunately, this means that a true immortal owes him a favor, a big favor.

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We ended up serving him dinner, apparently being dead for weeks causes you to get quite hungry. We learned his name was Emericus. Over dinner, he told us about how he died, mostly because I asked him about it. Basically, it was just a series of wild misfortunes one after another in rapid succession, which would definitely build up a bit of Fate even if you couldn’t manipulate it yourself.

He was flying on a clear sunny day when he got struck by lighting three hundred and seventeen times. No one was trying to hurt him, and the area wasn’t really known for lightning, he just got super unlucky. That alone didn’t kill him, neither did the meteor strike nor the mountain fall on him. The mountain was caused by a nearby fight and he just happened to be in the way. What finally killed him was having his simple healing spell backfire, causing a disease that somehow ripped his soul from his body. Like I said, more than enough to build up some Fate.

From there the fate he managed to build up when he died kept his soul from being damaged and allowed him to return to his body when it was made available again by Azrezel who had obtained it from a merchant who had found it after the body crashed into his cart.

Emericus claimed that the reason for the terrible luck was because he failed to ascend and was cursed as a result. Whatever that means. Maybe it has something to do with the creature that granted me powers over Fate? Who knows, but it isn’t the first time I’ve heard of Fate bringing you back after you die. The message I received before mentioned something like that and I have personally experienced it when back when I went dungeony a while ago, though that time I lost access to my memories for a while.

He decided to stick around for a while, with more than a little coaxing from me. The guy is really shaken up about his failure and claims he wants to take a break from everything for a while. I made sure to arrange the best lodging for him and made sure he had a private chef who was well stocked with the best ingredients in addition to almost anything else he wants. If we can get this guy to stick around long term then we’ll have at least one true immortal, while the angelic council’s leadership is made up almost entirely of them, or creatures close to that level.

If he tries to leave I’m not going to stop him, I just hope he doesn’t.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.