Today I finished the armor with plenty of time to spare. I actually managed to do better than I thought I would, the mana cost for recharging it is only twice as much instead of the two and a half times I predicted.

Once I was done with the armor I decided to perfect the crown Par gave me. I had a couple ideas for what I could do to improve it. First, I started by slowly replacing the wood with Astrie, the same type that I made Willow’s necklace out of, just with a bit more mana behind it. That made it so that the mana contained in the gemstones could be accessed almost as quickly as my own internal mana, and the weak point is the gemstones, not the wood.

The second thing I did was take the Demon Glass stone and put it in the crown as the centerpiece. For the branches that connect that stone to me, I made them even more potent. That particular gem has no problem with quality, and no matter how much mana I used to for those branches there was still room for improvement until it got to the point that my own skill was the limiting factor.

Ultimately it took a dozen renditions to get the crown to a state I was satisfied with. When I finally put it on and let it connect to me head the same way my armor connects to my body I felt something hollow, like an empty part of me had opened up. That empty part filled pretty quickly with mana. The momentary high of having that much mana at my fingertips was amazing, but i quickly got used to it.

Talus was the first person to see me wearing it, definitely because she happened to be there and not because I planned it or something like that. She said it made me look like a real queen before saying it looked good on me, that made me feel giddy.

Though that was a sentiment shared by everyone.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.