I was right when I said that Null wouldn’t hinder my apprentices for long, they managed to figure to get through the first version I had them working under in minutes. In order to really challenge them, I had to dedicate part of my hivemind to constantly changing it as a static version of Null is just bypassed way too easily. Which does give me some ideas for future a project to work on.

The constantly shifting form of Null prevented them from quickly adapting and overcoming to it, instead forcing them to find other, harder, methods around it. I’m not sure if anything similar exists elsewhere, but I don’t want it to be able to hinder my apprentices. As I have said before, I won’t be satisfied until they are able to heal any injury under any circumstances.

It would require active sabotage in order for my floating trees to sink, and even then it would be pretty difficult. By changing the design a bit I have made it nearly impossible for a significant amount of water to enter through the top of the bowl, even while being submerged slightly it expels water faster than it would be able to pour in. I achieved this by just putting a lid on the top, it did take me quite a while to figure out how to get it to work properly, but it was worth the effort. That plus using Water Lily to expel water is more than enough to spread my forest through the ocean.

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For my next project, I think I will try to get Digger root to be able to manipulate metal. It shouldn’t be too difficult, Digger root isn’t exactly a complicated plant. I don’t see myself using it much, but there has been quite a lot of success in getting people to learn how to work with metal. I mean, we don’t have anyone who has mastered it quite yet, it is going to take a long time to get someone on that level, but the sheer amount of metals we are pulling out of the ground gives people a lot to practice with. And getting ahold of a plant capable of manipulating metal should make it easier to do a lot of things with it.

I spent my downtime with Azrezel, cuddling to cool down mostly, though that failed as things ended up getting really hot and steamy.

Other than that we got word from Par that he has met the enemy in open combat and currently has the advantage, though at this point the fighting is likely already over. From what I have been told our rank and file soldiers are better than theirs, and we have a much larger population to draw from, but they have a lot more elite soldiers and warriors than we do. The reason we are winning so consistently is that they haven’t started really using their elites.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.