The first thing I did today was confront the scholars. I explained to them exactly what happened and told them that they would either be a lot more cooperative with us in the future or they would be removed from my areas of control, violently if necessary. One particularly obstinate young scholar scoffed at that and threatened me, saying that I wouldn’t dare hurt a hair on his head or his order would burn my forest to the ground. With a bit of plant magic I threw him out of my domain. I definitely heard a crack when he hit the ground. The rest of the scholars were a lot more compliant after that, though they still said that they needed to talk to the people they have to report to.

After I finished with them I started to meditate on the part of my connection to my forest that goes through my dungeon core. With the benefit of hundreds of trees all supporting my mind progress is going much faster, it will be days before I get that connection to the point where making it stronger would provide almost no benefit.

To my surprise improving this connection is actually giving me more mana. A lot more. By the time I’m done it will probably have doubled the amount of mana I’m gaining from my trees. I thought I was already getting all the mana I could out of them so I have no idea why I’m getting more, but I’m not going to question it.

The rate my mana production is increasing is a lot faster than the rate that I’m able to spend it is increasing. The latter is based almost entirely on the number of spells I can cast at once, which is based on mostly off of the extra mental prowess I get from my trees. While the former is based on both my connection to my grove and my dungeon core and soon to also be based on the mana to solar energy and back again cycle that I have going on. In a couple weeks it will get to the point that I could not possibly spend mana as fast as I am taking it in, I wonder how that will affect me. At that point I will have functionally infinite mana, and I will need a much bigger mana storage. Maybe it will cause my demonglass to grow a lot faster?

On top of that, once I have that much mana production it is only going to increase faster and faster. All the excess mana that I don’t spend on normal activities I spend on growing my Forest. Once I hit that point I will be pouring so much mana into my forest that it will be growing faster than ever, which will both give me more mana and allow me to spend that mana faster.

It’s kinda funny. My innate mana production is so abysmal I would starve to death if I had to rely on it, I almost did at one point. And now my mana storage and mental prowess are also offloaded to something else to such a degree that my innate abilities are mostly inconsequential. For almost everything relating to using magic I’m relying on something bigger than myself, or would it be more accurate to say an extension of myself? Something beyond what is naturally there, something I went out of my way to add. Now the only things that I truly only rely on my innate abilities for are the intention and knowledge aspects of magic.

Now that I think about it, maybe I can offload those as well? Intention is more than just wanting something, it is also visualization, how well you can picture something happening, something I’ve always been mediocre at. And knowledge is pretty straightforward, the more you understand something the easier it is to do stuff with it. I feel like I might be able to get my trees to assist in both of those, I’m not entirely sure how but I feel like it’s possible, though maybe not easy.

Other than that I spent my free time relaxing with everyone. They were all very concerned about me and their constant questions about my health, while touching, got a bit annoying. Yes I got kidnapped, yes there was nothing you could do about it, and yes I got beat and injured. Can we please stop reminding me every minute.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.