Today I divided up my time between teaching the Ents and working on Tiddol’s present.

The Ents are learning just as rapidly as before, only now instead of teaching them language, i’m teaching them about the area, and the things in it. It is nice seeing them be so curious about the world around them. They have tried asking others about various things, but no one was able to really explain anything the way I can. well I mean Whisperer can, but he’s not very good at explaining things for other reasons. They didn’t really go into detail about that, seemingly intentionally.

As for the armor, I did make pretty good progress. I figured out a way to make the armor reusable, but it takes a ludicrous amount of mana to recharge, roughly twenty times as much as normal. The vast majority of that excess is due to inefficiencies in the design, things I can iron out in the next couple days.

Mest explains his theory to me today after I pressured him into it. He explained that he thinks I’m turning into something called a Dungeon Lord, which is basically a hypermobile dungeon core. According to him, the biggest indicator was how quickly I healed after expending so much of my spark of life, apparently dungeon cores, and dungeon lords, can absorb the excess spark of life that all creatures who aren’t currently restoring it creates, it usually gets wasted and turns back into ambient mana, but I tap into that and take it for myself, or at least what’s produced in my territory.

The other big tell, according to Mest at least, was how easy it was for me to create life. Something unique to origin and dungeons, and we can be pretty certain that I am not an origin.

The last clue, which was pretty minor as Mest said, was that I can’t leave my territory. He also says that there are a couple other reasons that could be the case. The most likely, and probably also true on top of me becoming a dungeon lord is that I am the lord of the forest. He didn’t go into detail on what that meant, despite me pestering him for information.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.