Today I continued conducting the destruction of the desert. Shovel full by shovel full all of the sand is getting destroyed, it’s rather pleasant to watch the desert shrink before my eyes.

I’ve been constantly refining the actual technique, I am far from perfect efficiency. I’ve found that having the shovel full of sand be immediately blasted around the room via blastbark as soon as it is teleported in is the most effective method to destroy it, as it spreads it out into a fine cloud of dust that allows mana to get to it quickly. The actually poisonous stuff gets dissolved in about half of a second, while it is fine to let the actual sand accumulate a bit. Short of adding more mana, there is nothing I can do to destroy that stuff faster.

I can see the remains of the city that was destroyed during the creation of this desert now, it was hiding behind a large hill that I reclaimed today, also I wasn’t exactly looking for it in the first place. It’s not a very big city, more like a rather large town. Of course, that might be because the only things left standing are damaged stone buildings, anything made of wood would have been destroyed. It is also going to be a pain to clean up, unlike the surrounding areas that are mostly just sand, these building will probably have the poison embedded deep into the stones. Hopefully, I’m wrong, but I’m probably going to have to just completely demolish the city in order to fully remove the poison.

It seems that my endeavors to clean up the desert has caught the eye of one of the wielders of nuclear fire, a lot faster than I would have thought. They sent word ahead of them to the scholars, who are now preparing for his arrival. He will probably be here by tomorrow, as a true immortal he doesn’t have to wait in line at the teleporters, or deal with teleportation sickness for that matter.

I hope he’s reasonable because otherwise I could end up dead from this interaction. Whatever, there is nothing I can do about it now.

Tiddol seems to have put that slime to good use so far. She’s made a couple potions that she wouldn’t have been able to make before, like a potion designed to dissolve glue, one that makes your body rubbery and elastic, and a sour flavoring. She said that the last one isn’t actually a potion by common definitions, but I wouldn’t know.

She also has plans to breed it so she can make use of it more, there is only so much she can take from it without killing it. It just so happens that it is most of its body, but that is still not that much for a single slime. To that end she’s been asking the scholars for some help, though I’m unsure about the results of that.

Other than that I spent some time at a small festival that propped up in pearlhold practically overnight. Apparently, it is to celebrate an old war hero of some sort, though based on how much people knew about it I can’t help but think that the real reason was to have an excuse to throw a party. There was dancing in the streets, children throwing small fragile balls filled with water, more than one person juggling, street vendors selling cheap food, and a lot of other things. It was pretty exhausting, but I enjoyed myself.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.