The morning was dominated by the birthday party. It was a pretty small event, all things considered. It was mostly our inner circle, so myself, Azrezel, Tiddol, Par, and a couple of the kids' friends and acquaintances. And, of course, the people whose birthday it is in the first place, Ednar and Umi. If they wanted to they could have easily turned it into a massive party with thousands of people, being the children of the emperor comes with certain advantages.

Shortly after that I burned my Fate, and nothing. No sudden sparks of inspiration, no dead dragons landing at my feet, no spontaneous evolution, just nothing. I would expect burning that much Fate to produce some obvious effect, but I guess not. Whatever it did, the results should show themselves sooner or later. Unless it prevented something, which is just a whole new kind of scary.

It did leave me feeling kind of sore though, like how I would imagine a muscle feels after an intense workout. Which I guess that whole event was. Regardless it was really difficult to bring myself to increase my Fate today, and it felt really good to relax that particular muscle.

A minute later I got a glass plant, and then twelve more within the next five minutes. I guess the size of caverns was massive overkill. The people building the caverns have decided to continue to expand them, though they won’t be able to quite as fast without my help. Some of them because they can find some valuable stuff down there, others because they think the caverns are pretty, and still others because they enjoy the work. I look forward to seeing what they can create with that.

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I ended up spending the rest of the day perfecting a glass plant, made significantly easier by having a lot of variations to draw pieces from. Ultimately I decided to call it Shimmerleaf because of the way that light bounces off of the leaves. By the end of the day it was done and I had a plant growing in the ocean without it being destroyed spectacularly. I did integrate a small amount of Mithrilwood to help keep the plant durable, which gave it a nice blueish color similar to the glass caverns, but other than that I wasn’t able to integrate anything else as the plant was really porous and let acid inside. If I didn’t use some mithrilwood then the whole structure of the tree likely wouldn’t hold up for very long, the plant isn’t exactly magical.

And now I can expand into the oceans freely. The trees I grow in the ocean aren’t quite as useful as the ones I grow on land but they will eventually reach other continents, where they will become incredibly useful. In the meantime, I might be able to figure out ways to integrate more plants into them.

Other than that I spent my downtime time thinking to myself, which was when I burned my Fate. it ended up mostly being me getting frustrated over a lack of anything obvious happening.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.