Today I started the process of actually deconstructing the desert. I took it slow at first, just to get a bit of practice and make sure everything was working the way it should. After being sure that nothing would go catastrophically wrong I started rapidly going faster until I was going as fast as possible, I can only destroy the sand so quickly.

There is a lot of sand, so this will take a while. But I also have a lot of the buildings to actually destroy it, so I can make rapid progress. In the end, it should take about a week. Though if it is deeper than I think it is then it will take a lot longer.

Today I stumbled, quite literally, across a slime that had wandered into my forest. It was odd because slimes aren’t common in this region, actually they are very rare. I have never seen one before at least.

Its ‘flesh’ is incredibly acidic, which is exactly what I had heard before. I had some pretty severe burns after tripping over it, nothing I couldn’t heal. It seems to dissolve living material, or material that was once living, really well, while things like metals and dirt take a very long time.

It has a small orb floating around the clear blue fluid that makes up its body, its core if what I have read it right. Basically, a combination sensory organ and brain, though some powerful slimes are supposedly capable of creating sensory organs.

Ultimately I captured it in a pot made out of Mithrilwood and closed the lid, it had trouble dissolving that. I had heard one time that slimes could be useful in some kinds of alchemy, luckily I did as Tiddol seemed to appreciate it.

It isn’t something I am really interested in, but it was definitely a novel experience. Though I can see how they could become powerful, just this little weak one was enough to give me serious burns.

Other than that I spent my downtime teaching Azrezel. I don’t really think there is much more I can teach him about flesh manipulation, or at least nothing that I could teach him faster than he could figure out himself. He has also learned a bit of traditional healing, enough to keep a seriously injured person alive long enough for a better healer to get there. Hopefully, it won’t be relevant.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.