I have more or less perfected the teaching device, there are some minor flaws in it but they are so small as to be both irrelevant and nearly impossible to fix, I hope anyway. It is entirely possible that I am completely overlooking something, but I doubt it. I will start producing them after I am done training the people that are left.

Speaking of, even the worst of them is improving quickly. If everything stays steady it will take about a week before everyone is beyond my ability to teach. It helps a lot that pretty much everyone that had no talent with plants to start with either dropped out or evolved into something that did.

I ended up spending my downtime today with Azrezel, who I found arm deep in the guts of a rather attractive guy. I just watched for a little bit while the two were having a conversation, not at all hampered by the fact that my boyfriend was messing around with his insides. I quickly found out that the stranger was a lich like Azrezel, and he had some magical device lodged into his body a while back. He didn’t really have the expertise to remove it, and having an unknown and damaged magical device in your body is probably not a good thing, so he came here to ask for our help, and Azrezel was the one he found first.

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It was an interesting conversation, and once I realized what was going on I helped out. The work was surprisingly difficult. Using magic on an unknown magical device is usually ill-advised, so we had to remove it directly. Unfortunately, it wasn’t exactly in a good position for that, fortunately, we were working on an undead so it didn’t really matter what we cut up as we could fix it with minimal issues. Plus I certainly wasn’t opposed to the opportunity to study the body of a creature I had never encountered before.

The device, according to one of the scholars, turned out to be a rather simple enchanted bomb, so using magic directly on it definitely would have been the wrong choice. Upon hearing that the guy left, saying that he had “a treacherous ‘ally’ to deal with.” He did give Azrezel something first, though, it seemed to be a small collection of magical metal, though I’m unfamiliar with the variety.

I probably should have asked for his name, it would be awkward to meet him again and not know his name. Well, too late now.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.