I continued to work on refining my body today. Specifically I was working on getting Pipeweed to move mana and Solar Energy around my body as efficiently and effectively as possible. It was a lot of trial and error but I have definitely made progress. I do have a lot of space to work with now that I no longer have to work around my monster parts so things are turning out to be a bit bulkier than I would like, but I should be able to fix that once I figure everything out and have a decent baseline to work from.

I also noticed something about myself today, I am now completely infertile. I simply don't have the anatomy to have children, I mean I noticed before but I never really connected the dots until now. I could definitely fix that with plant stuff, I've done as much with my Ents before. But I'm not sure I should. For one I don't want children, beyond the ones I make manually anyways, and Azrezel hasn't expressed any interest either. For another, even if I was one of the most fertile people in the world we still would struggle to have kids, as Azrezel is an undead. Not to mention the fact that I would make a terrible mother, and the whole 'being worshiped as a god' thing would probably really mess with the head of any child I had. And besides, if we ever decide to have kids it is easy enough to fix.

There is also the not insignificant amount of space that I would be able to use for other, more practical things.

Now that it directly affects my own body I can definitely see the appeal of learning spatial manipulation. It's a bit outside of my area of study, and not something dungeons are naturally capable of despite the fact that the vast majority of spatial mages are dungeons, but maybe I could get a plant with relevant qualities? I would have to buy it as I have no idea how I would go about evolving one.

Looking at it now the plant that I want is ridiculously expensive, even compared to other magical plants. It would take about four or five months of the entire income of our empire to be able to afford it, or a year or two of profits from the terminal, a bit beyond the resources I have available.

That isn't to say it's hopeless, apparently teleportation has something to do with spatial manipulation. The way it was described reminds me of the relationship between healing and flesh manipulation, only much more extreme. So I could theoretically evolve something capable of it, but it would be hard, rely mostly on intention, and be almost entirely a roll of the dice. Which means that my constant efforts to increase my Fate is going to get in the way. I'll keep it in mind for a future project.

My paladins have been doing really well for themselves, even despite my lack of oversight. There haven't been anymore casualties so it's still the thirty nine of them. Individually they aren't quite the strongest people in our empire, Par's honor guard holds that title, but together the are the most capable group of soldiers we have. This is mostly thanks to a combination of their wide variety of skills and their perfect coordination and teamwork, which is excellent even when compared to the rest of our military, which also has the benefit of a hivemind. So exactly what I was building them up to be.

Recently they managed to reach the bottom floor of the oldest dungeon on the continent, which happens to be quite a ways away from my forest. They are still down there, climbing their way out. I found this out because the dungeon contacted me, thanking me for their very respectful behaviour and inviting them to come back any time. I look forward to seeing what they're bringing back from such a successful dive.

I spent my downtime with Azrezel. We ended up going out to eat at a restaurant Tiddol recommended. The food was great, and the company better. We talked a lot at dinner, we didn't talk a lot when we got home. I definitely enjoyed myself, and I would be surprised if Azrel didn't.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.