Today was an exciting day.

In the morning I gathered the resources to open the letter. It took me a bit of trial and error but I eventually managed to figure it out. The hard part was not the actual getting ahold of it, but rather keeping it once I have grabbed hold of it. Apparently, whatever change happened yesterday it gave me a small amount of control over this resource, whatever it is.

It was surprisingly difficult to get ahold of enough of this resource to actually open the letter, and even then I don’t think I actually got enough and instead was helped out somehow.

When I finally opened the ‘letter’ it spoke into my mind, using the same kind of telepathy I use to communicate with plants or with the Ents.

First, it described my newfound ability. The person that made the letter described it as Fate. it then went on to say that anything that affects you and isn’t completely controlled by you is governed by your own Fate. it described how every soul had a balance of Fate and when bad things outside of your control happen you build up fate, and vice versa, on top of that Fate likes to maintain a balance of zero, so it is difficult to hold onto it. The ability I was granted was the power to do the opposite, to unbalance Fate causing something to happen to justify the new balance as well as to prevent it from balancing itself. It didn’t elaborate on how to actually do that.

It then described the why. In short, because an incredibly powerful an alien creature decided it would be interesting to grant a small part of its power to a random person on this planet. The plant was designed so that it would be all but impossible to force it to evolve unless it was already close, and even when someone did manage to make it evolve it would be basically reset to its base form, only more complicated. Overall it should have taken at least a millennium to get to the point where someone could randomly stumble across a soon to evolve version of the final form and then, through an act of Fate, gain the ability to manipulate Fate. it then congratulated me for being that person.

And then the voice went quiet for a couple seconds before popping up again, this part was definitely added in after I finished making Luck Blossom evolve because the voice was directly talking to me. It sounded like it was torn between anger and amusement. The voice, which did not name itself and was of an unidentifiable gender, said ‘Or that was what was supposed to happen, but then you came along and messed everything up. I guess it is really my fault for not trying to figure out every loophole present in your world. But you are impressive, almost entirely under your own power you managed to achieve the power of Fate manipulation, something that would be truly outstanding if not for one small detail. You are the least talented Fate manipulator I have ever seen. I guess I owe you some advice at least, it would be boring if you died for a stupid reason.’

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Then the voice listed off some tips to using Fate well, stuff like cause a bunch of minor misfortunes to yourself so you can cash in on all the positive fate you accumulate with no risk, and if you want to kill someone with Fate don’t cause a major tragedy to them, they will definitely remember everything in their next life and have access to the tools required for revenge, instead cause something positive to happen to them and watch as their Fate balances itself very quickly. It then signed out saying ‘be entertaining. Also, you will probably never hear from me again, no more help, if you die without enough stored Fate to keep your powers then that's it, game over.’.

After some experimenting with it I realized that he’s right, I am terrible at this. I can barely perceive my own Fate, much less someone else's. On top of that trying to get my own Fate to budge was a painful mental exercise, and even then I wasn’t moving it enough to cause anything noticeable. Though keeping ahold of the Fate I have gathered got easier as I got used to it.

But that is to be expected, I have had this power for less than a day. I will get better in time. Besides, that wasn’t even the part of the day I was most interested in.

It had been too long since I have made my Grove grow. In a display of sheer magical force I made tree after tree sprout from the ground and grow to full size, expanding my grove outwards around and inside of Par’s village, making sure not to damage or get in the way of anything important of course.

By the end of it I was panting and my mana was completely exhausted, even the stuff I had stored in my crown. But my grove was a tenth more than it was before, and I got to show off more than a little. It had taken a little less than half an hour, and I was able to do it once more before I felt sore, I don’t spend that much mana that quickly very often. It was honestly pretty slow, but I’m only saying that because there was a ton of wasted mana.

For the rest of the day, I spent time with Talus, much to her pleasure. She was complaining about how I didn’t have any time for her recently, which isn’t true, I spent many of my mornings and afternoons with her while I was refining Luck Blossom.

Some other stuff happened but nothing was nearly as interesting as the other stuff I mentioned today.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.