This morning I finished up the box. The top of the box was made out of Portweed, after messing around with it I figured out that portweed wasn’t just teleportation, it was manipulating space. So I designed it to allow light from the various suns to go through the top without making the top clear. The bottom of the box was made out of whitefoot, and I had several tendrils of wood sticking up throughout the dirt in the bottom quarter of the box. I designed the whitefoot so that it gathers up ambient mana and uses that to keep the plants nice and healthy. The sides were made out of spellwood, and I had one of the Ents help me design a climate control system. Yes, I can make the plants very resistant to high or low temperatures, but the key word there is or. For the most part, the parts that make the plant resistant to one extreme interfere with the parts that make it resistant to the other. Specifically what the spellwood does is make the insides stable, and water the plants inside by conjuring water and letting it drip down the inside walls. I had White foot tendrils throughout the walls to repair any water damage.

After I was done designing it I had one of my children make a bunch of them for the merchants. After giving the merchants instructions on how to care for their cargo, basically don’t shake it around too much and let them have at least a minute of sunlight a day. The plants I am sending won’t grow very quickly as a result of me cutting down their need for sunlight and water, and they stop growing entirely once the useful part is removed. They will never reproduce and I made it needlessly complicated just to prevent any plant manipulators of lesser skill from copying them. Yeah, it makes it harder to produce, but it is barely noticeable for me, besides, that's the whole point.

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That whole process took about an hour.

I spent almost the entire day after that refining my skills, and I didn’t get up till a bit after my bedtime. That kind of sucked because I missed Thes’s cooking, but I did manage to get two more parallels to peak efficiency, bringing me up to twenty total. Not only that but I have noticed that my body is just all around better recently, stronger, faster, more flexible, etc. And in a pretty noticeable way too, like if before I could pick up five rock of a certain size now I can pick up six of them.

I mean it makes sense if you stop to think about it for a second. A large chunk of my mind is in charge of maintaining my body, which is effectively casting the same spell over and over again, constantly, only it’s more like hundreds of different, tiny spells that interact with each other to form me, but whatever. Anyway, What I am doing with refining my plant refining skill is basically just that, casting the same spell over and over again, or rather the same couple dozen spells over and over again.

Of course, I could be completely wrong and the two things aren't connected at all, but somehow I doubt that.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.