My mana production is absolutely crippled. I am only getting what I need to maintain myself from my Grove, and my dungeon core is similarly crippled. Food is nearly my entire source of mana, which sucks considering how little I get from all but the highest quality of food. I mean I guess I have a couple mana berries lying around here, but not many. I’ll use them up tomorrow to fix up a couple trees.

There are a lot of strangers here now, and a lot of people missing. Mest and Thes are dead, and I’m not sure if I could have done something to stop it. Willow has left, she said something about striking out on her own and went off with several of my children. One of Bug’s children, the one that evolved into a Winged Dragonewt Saint, left as well. She snuck out in the middle of the night and no one knows where she went.

The strangers are all either new immigrants or people that are part of Mest’s order. The Haelmer order apparently. They came here to investigate his death and then decided to set up shop here, creating a school or embassy or something. It wasn’t clear what.

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The village is a bit bigger, but not beyond what I would have expected.

The mana isolation room I built is gone, just completely gone. No one knows exactly what happened to it, it just disappeared all of a sudden, but people are suspecting teleportation magic was involved.

As for Tiddol, she was ultimately the one that helped me regain my memories. She cried when she saw me, and I cried when I saw her. We just kind of hugged for a while. Eventually, she fell asleep in my arms and I just held her until Par came and took her off my hands.

Par has several more scars on his face and arms than he did before, and likely even more under his clothes. He seems a bit harder than he did before, almost angry.

Kaire and Lulem are just fine. They are doing great actually. Both of them are past the point that I would have expected them to evolve. And I can tell that the world wants them to evolve. It seems like the world can’t create something it doesn’t know, I have to be the one to evolve them.

And one more thing before I go to bed. My Solar Energy room has tons of Solar Energy in it now, but I can’t stay in there for very long because it makes me feel like I’m suffocating and starving to death once my mana pool runs out. I’ll have to fix my Grove first.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.