Tomorrow Lace will be perfected as far as I am capable. From there I will experiment with it to figure out exactly what it is capable of. Hopefully, I will be able to figure out a way to make myself think better with it.

Today was a slow day, especially when compared to the whole thing that was finding out my dad is alive. It feels weird having him around again, I don’t really know how to act now that I am much more of an authority figure than him. Before I was almost wholly dependent on my parents for pretty much everything, but now I only rely on people out of convenience, not necessity. If everyone in my life suddenly disappeared again I would continue to be able to function, I definitely wouldn’t be happy but my life wouldn’t be in danger the same way I was before creating this grove.

And he reminds me of mom, and there is no way she survived the same way he did. Even if she did survive the actual fire she would have become catatonic from the loss of her grove and then slowly starved, I know that’s what would happen to me if my grove burned down. Well, it would if not for my dungeon core. It’s just painful to see him.

In happier news, the scholars have announced that their ban on large-scale conflict is going to expire in two days. Par has already begun war preparations. With the enforced peace he managed to acquire tons of resources from raiding dungeons, trading, and immigration. We aren’t quite at the level of a proper city yet, but we are getting closer by the day. A couple of the Ents have started working as full-time house builders and have managed to make quite a bit of money, no one else is capable of manipulating the plants in my grove like that.

Hopefully, Par can take a couple more cities, because the more cities he takes the more resources I have with which to buy new plants.

I am getting close to the smaller nearby grove, and my plants are getting excited for it. If I focus my mana on growing in that direction I could make it in two days, which I think I might just do.

Other than that Tiddol’s son is starting to grow faster. Apparently, he wasn’t getting enough mana which was slowing down his development. Looks like my worrying about his slow growth wasn’t invalid.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.