Another large group of people, a little more than four thousand, stopped training under me today. Not all of them were beyond my ability to teach, but most of them left with Par to return to the front lines. I hope their improved skills with plants helps make the difference between defeat and victory.

The elf kid, whose name I learned to be Veris after I heard an older elf woman call out to him, I’m assuming that was his mother, is currently one of my best students. It is a matter of days before he will be able to join my paladins, and some of the originals are keenly aware of this even without me saying as much. I look forward to seeing what he can accomplish, after all a bunch of untrained farmers managed to turn the tide of battle in our favor before, how will he, as their successor live up to that?

As I said earlier, Par left this morning. He and his soldiers teleported to the forest’s edge and marched out to war, which is fairly mundane. While I was seeing them off, offering the soldiers my blessing, healing any minor injuries they may have, and other such stuff I took a moment to look over the barrier preventing my expansion. I still don’t understand most of it, but some of the stuff involved involves the soul in one way or another. I wish I understood how because then I could probably bypass the barrier entirely, but this is still good to know. Using my soul to bind my hivemind closer together will likely be influenced by, or influence this barrier, possibly negatively, possibly positively. At the very least now I know to look out for it.

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Speaking of the soul, my teaching device is coming along nicely. I have worked out many of the issues involving interpreting the information, and though it isn’t perfect, I may have figured out a solution to that. See, regardless of what I did it always had a failure rate that was way too high to be useful on a large scale, the method I used to store information wasn’t exactly something that was easy to interpret. So what I did was I had it check twice simultaneously, matching the results up against each other. If the results were the same no problem, if they were different it tried again. It works even when it fails both times, because it almost never fails in the same way twice. Making the thing was also rather straightforward, I basically just ran the memories through a band of singing grass, if both memories were identical it would function normally, but if they weren’t then they would counteract each other. I wish I had thought of this days ago, actually I wish I had thought of this at all. It was actually one of Tiddol’s students that recommended it after messing around with a similar phenomenon.

Anyway, that’s pretty much all that happened today, so Good Night Diary.