After today I am confident in saying that it will be two more days before I finish refining all of the gear. I’m looking forward to that.

Azrezel has had some luck today by making the brain of the undead bigger, much bigger. Previously we had tried this but were stopped by the skull, which would either have to be removed or expanded. Of course that would cause other issues that would need to be fixed, like the neck being too fragile to support the head, and the rest of the nervous system being overloaded by the new, bigger brain.

On top of that it isn’t a solution to the problem. What we want is a way to make the undead as a whole more intelligent, having all of them have massively expanded brains like this doesn’t solve the issue. With this what we have are specialists whose sole purpose is to provide extra mental prowess, they are too fragile for anything else.

That isn’t to say it isn’t effective, it is. Perhaps the extra mental prowess will help Azrezel come up with a better solution for the average undead. He ended up making ten of them today and the two of us worked on making them better in any way we could. We ended up brute forcing the supporting structures for their bodies. It makes them more or less useless at anything requiring movement, which is hardly an issue because their massive heads were already doing that.

It’s weird that healing and necromancy cooperate so well in this one situation, while in everything else they repel each other and interact viciously. Healing and necromancy are two very different tools that have very different intents, but when it comes to shaping flesh and molding bone they do basically the exact same thing, only necromancy is restricted to the dead and the undead.

Now that I think about it, isn’t necromancy the same thing as plant manipulation? The only real difference is that instead of manipulating plants necromancy manipulates the tree of evolution known as the undead. Every other difference is due to the way the undead and plants work, and not anything fundamental to either field of magic. And even that is superficial, with the proof being the Ents, life created out of something that was previously alive, which is just necromancy. I wonder if Azrezel would be able to make useful combinations of flesh and bone in the same way that I make things out of Astrie and other plants. Maybe we could find some dead creature with useful pieces that he might be able to grow, replicate, and change the same way I take plants and grown, replicate, and change them.

Yes, necromancy was originally an attempt to replicate the life creating powers of dungeons, but how far past that can we push it? From my understanding manipulating the undead under their control isn’t something most necromancers even consider, much less attempt. The scholars have nothing that they could pull up easily, and the opinion of other dungeons towards necromancy stops at ‘that’s cute, their trying to be like us’. As far as I know we would be pushing into unexplored parts of magic.

Talking to Azrezel about this I think he is getting just as excited about this as I am.

There is so much I want to do and so little time in the day to do it all. I’m going to have to start tying up loose ends or I’m going to get overwhelmed with the sheer amount of stuff I want to do. I need to finish digesting all of the rope of knowledge sitting in my head, I need to practice reading minds with Lace, I need to perfect all of my plants and then perfect them with Solar Energy, I need to evolve using Solar Energy, and I should go back through my diary to see if there is anything else I missed. And that is just the things that I can finish reasonably quickly. I should get started on that list once I am done with all the gear.

Other than that I spent my time hanging out with Par. It is interesting seeing the difference between how the masses treat their Lord Parius the Magnificent, and how they treat me. The people treat both of us with respect, but the flavor of that respect is a bit different. Towards Par it is admiration, trust, and something else I can’t quite place. While towards me it is something closer to reverence.

Par told me that he wants me to help him evolve soon. He has been suppressing an evolution for quite a while as a show of power and he thinks he is on the verge of his ability to continue that. He has a week, two at best. Naturally I accepted and put it pretty high on my priority list. It shouldn’t take more than an hour and he doesn’t want to be awake during the process so it will be simple. I will do it once I am done finishing up all of the gear.

I noticed something else today, people have started to refer to Azrezel as ‘The Consort’. I’m assuming it has to do with him being my boyfriend, but it is still a bit weird.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.