{My precious subject Falling Leaf,

your survival brings Us great joy, albeit also burning sorrow for your displacement from our holy Forest. While I am torn between trying to order your release and keeping your wish, dark rumors start to brew about your Loyalty. We do not mind those thorny whispers all around us, as it is Our happiness to know your well being, and nothing else will matter.

While your roots might not touch Ours, We know your mind will always think for Our whole benefit. The time you are gone might be short or forever, but the Forest will always welcome you back as long as We are the Queen Mother of the first Child. Keep in your heart Our permanent best wishes for your future and health.

With sad voice We have to say, Our subjects think of you as a potted Plant right now, not whole with the Forest and have forced Us to renounce your Title as a tender of the Trees. Albeit, with slight protest from the Mothers, We have still held some of your Authority in a new Title for you to bear.

We announce you to be the Speaker between the Crater and the Forest, representing the Crater with mind of the Roots. With this Title We grant you the same rights as Ambassadors and visiting Rights if these will ever be possible.

Right now only We, the Eldest Mothers and their direct Subjects are aware of you being alive, as you wished. Even if they turn their feelings for you as hard as Bark, they understand the Lesson of loss for the saplings to be a good thing. If you come back We will celebrate your survival inside the maws of the Beast as grace of our forefathers, but until then We have your Name temporarily written as deceased.

Signed

Your Queen Mother of the first Child

PS: Shimmering Petal will be the Ambassador on the Forests side to make it easier for you, as she is wholly trusting your Integrity. She is directly ordered to work under Us, and will go over her higher Mother as by Our order.

}

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Well these are good and bad news. The good news is, her Queen seems to trust her, the bad news is, most of the Elders do not, as to overrule the Queens decision it needs more than two thirds of the Elders to do that.

Not really a plus for their Race itself, but a plus in my Book for Leafy, as she gave me the letter right after reading, while trying to sort her feelings.

The second Letter from her blood Mother seems not really be good either, as her face contorts rather severe, but the letter from Petal gave her a smile and even a small tear, so at least it balances out.

Her trying to hand over the other letters makes a nice gesture, and while trust is not really that big I refrain, as those are definite private affairs I should never snoop into, without clear reason.

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More to the things I brought, As I now have no water without Mana, I disassemble the plants and put them into storage. The onions get planted in a part of the fields where the water is a bit more regulated. Onions in this World are strange. They are purplish red and have a rather interesting taste… no wait, red onions existed in the other Worlds too, so scratch that. I am just dumb.

While trying my best to work on plant life I stop the growth field completely. As Leafy said, those plants have no way to control their growth and just balloon out of control. They are able to live, but anything else different than their creepy form is not there. This place will be the first orchard for the Fruits I bought.

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Removing the Miasma the Garden got plowed again and the seeds planted. Mana is already in the soil thanks to the water. By thinking about Mana I had forgotten about the test with the high concentration of Mana. Sadly the test got corrupted by the miasmic bomb and I totally forgot to repopulate that field… Well Orchard it is, another one will help the variety.

Albeit trees are everywhere, Fruit trees are rather rare in the Forest, so Leafy would like to eat some fruits herself. So it comes rather fitting to make two Orchards for now. Later the Gardens can be put elsewhere and the trees will be the corner of the Village… Well the Village is a bit distanced from the future Orchard, so more Houses need to be build. All the while I can create a few simple Tree garden and more gazebos, if her best friend Petal visits again.

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The market place needed to be moved… again. The Sphere was not in the middle anymore and only that can hold away the miasma without me. So better safe than sorry.

By moving it right in a center where not only former and later new houses will be placed, the new Sphere will include the orchard itself. If I want to add the fields into it I would have to change the statue from a female human to Atlas, as the Sphere would be way too big, so the fields stay by themselves. The high Mana concentration should help anyway with the push back of Miasma, even if it might be rather violent.

Finishing the new sphere, now double the radius the prior sphere had, I carve the runes. Taking care to create enough multiplication circles I stack below the street a charging circle with waterways flowing over to supercharge it with Mana. This should give enough power to make the shield stable.

Thinking of what happened last time I even build in a kill switch. IF the Sphere is removed, the circles stop amplifying and even reverse the Mana right back into the charging circle. This gives a nice nudge to the charging Runes to ALSO reverse in a catastrophic way. What happens is an ejection of Mana in every direction at the same time. The Sphere might break in but the high Mana will hold it for a few minutes and fight against total failure. This will give me time to make my own field or just take all I want alive into my Realm.

...And yes, I tested it before. After the happening of the Mana overload in the mill and the gauntlet I start to work on things with proper stress tests.

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A new letter is coming for Leafy. After a week she replied to all three and now another week later a new letter came. Only one this time. It is from Petal, so at least it is something she can be happy of. Her Mother did not write and I never suspected the Queen write again afterwards.

While being friends between direct Ambassadors is a necessity, it mostly is kept at surface Level. Deep friendships might be problematic in the future. Let us hope nothing problematic comes from it. I would hate to see their friendship wither or being taken advantage of.

While being on the notion of friends, Snow grew further. She now stands often straight and has a rather awkward posture for now. As I can see how her hind legs slowly grow and her front legs start to become arms I would say in a Month maybe two, she would be able to wear something an early teen would be able to wear. Maybe from Were-rat to Rat-kin? What will happen then? Hopefully not again something agonizing.

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Today is the day. I have made it into the reaches of my first landing… not quite… with a bit of stretching my Domain in that direction… at least I can see my place of rebirth damn it!

What made me start exploring there was the rather focal point of miasmic activity. It shows the making of the Portal in the early stage. Right now I do not disturb it to understand the weaving. By the fact it is so faint it will take… 10… No maybe 20 years for another one to spawn. But I will not take chances, lest it speeds up. The weaving shows me how the Miasma is aligned and it is utterly complex. No Runes are used, as they might be sourced locally in every World.

If I can understand what is going on, it could be the key to my way back to that rotten World. At least it should show how to create portals on a fundamental Level. No Teleportation Magic but true displacement of space. Would that be a nice thing to have.

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Those potions are something else. It is not really magic but also not normal herbal remedies. They are more a fusion of both. If one half is missing the other does not work properly, or at all. They have a stabilizer, herbal ingredients a potent Mana source, some poisons of all things and miasmic intent. Healing Potion works like I do it funny enough. It takes redundant mass of the body and the Mana inside of the Potion and creates the body part back to normal with help of the spirit body.

Rather ingenious to use that, but it has side effects. First it takes matter from elsewhere. So if someone loses his whole leg muscle, with a high potent low Mana rich potion, I can guess where the mass is coming from.

The other is the poison. It is a needed component as it transforms into what kills off the needed cells to repair the damage elsewhere. While it gets used up some stays in the places, where it disassembled the mass. This will slowly be absorbed in the bloodstream and then through the liver into the kidneys and out the body. And antidotes do not clear that as it is already part of the body, rather than a foreign substance wreaking havoc.

Potion poisoning is possible and even rather fast if you already have some damaged liver or kidneys, for example by using the cells elsewhere by the use of a potion.

Now to the Mana. Filling the body with Mana is a sure way to Mana burn. What this entails, I do not know, but it might be like overdosing on something. It can not be pleasant for starters, but what do I know. I still need guinea pigs in human form, who show me the symptoms. Animals just mutate. Why Sapients are different I can not understand in any way. Need to ask someone higher up for that, maybe before or during the punching.