If I were to spend every drop of mana I get on fixing up my trees it would be months before my grove was at peak condition, and that’s with me fixing up several of them using what dew mana berries we had.

So I had to ask for outside help. With the Ents helping me I should be able to finish within a couple days instead. I give it three or four.

Today a couple of the scholars approached me and requested to analyze me, basically just the same stuff that Mest used to do.

I did learn a couple things though. The first is that my dungeon core is both much older and much weaker. This makes sense considering the fact that dungeon cores age faster while under any type of stress, and they consume the actual strength of the core to do so. The last week or so were nothing if not stressful. The older a dungeon is the more tools it unlocks and the better it can use them, though to a much smaller degree than the actual strength of the core.

The second is that I am now something called a dryad, a pretty rare species on par with lesser dragons when ignoring variants. Specifically, I am a variant of dryad they have started to call a sun dryad, due to my innate ability to control solar energy. Though that isn’t the only way I vary from the basic dryad. In a very real way, I built my own body, I took all the knowledge available to Origin on the subject of creating mana based creatures and all of their skill and used it to craft my ideal body. If anything I did a better job than Origin possibly could have, as I had access to the kind of resources that would have taken an Origin years if not decades to acquire back when they were still creating life.

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My new body is very much me, it is who I am in a way that an evolution guided by the world couldn't possibly be. When the hand of the world offered its aid it didn’t correct any mistakes, it didn’t try to guide the creative process, it just provided mana and observed. The world itself was watching as I made my body.

And now I am innately talented in everything I want to do, Healing, Solar Energy, Plant Manipulation, and even Fate is a bit easier to manipulate.

And on top of all of that, the counter that marks how many times I have evolved in my life is sitting at one. The only way for that to be reset is if you die. Nothing anyone has tried has been successful in resetting it, and there is definitely a strong desire to figure out how.

What this means for me is that now it is much easier to evolve again. The first time is always the hardest, the second time is always the easiest.

Other than that nothing really noteworthy happened.

So Good Night Diary.