Today I perfected the last part of the hivemind, now I only have two parts of it left to perfect. The first is to figure out how to have the device manipulate mana and Solar Energy during the evolution process in exactly the way I want it to. The second is to figure out how to get it to be able to replicate itself perfectly. I can already get it to replicate that small soul chunk pretty well, but that was a simple proof of concept, not even close to what I actually need.

It seems like another empire is starting to form. A group of pretty powerful angelics gathered together to form a council and have started convincing other cities to join them. From the reports there is some pretty heavy extortion, blackmailing, and kidnapping going on to force those city-states to join their new empire. They aren’t even trying to hide it. With how quickly they are expanding we will eventually clash with them, assuming they don’t stop when our borders touch. I personally would rather avoid fighting them, by all accounts those angelics are getting close to being true immortals.

Speaking of news from out of our territory, we have news about Willow. Apparently, she’s doing pretty well for herself. She has a party that she’s been diving with and has had some great success. I hope she continues to do well for herself, diving is pretty dangerous. Maybe I can send her and her party some new gear? Well, maybe get Tiddol to do it, she was like a mother to Willow, while she wasn’t very close to me.

I spent my downtime with my dad, listening to his stories. Apparently, he at one point ended up in a fight on a moon. They were hunting down and trying to assassinate a teleporter mage, which sounds pretty hard. So they ended up blindly following the mage through several teleportations before ending up on a moon. At that point, all the mages had to conserve all of their mana so that they could have a way home, so it was down to the others to take out this mage and his lackeys. Luckily the teleporter was spent so he wasn’t running away anymore. After the fight was over, an easy victory for my dad, he waxed poetic about looking at the planet from outside of it. He talked about how massive the planet is, he couldn’t see opposite edges at the same time, even in his peripheral vision. Just listening to him describe it was awe-inspiring, it must have been so much more to actually be there.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.