MAY 21 Wednesday. I run while being shouted at by Stone like all my Wednesdays now, the training has been a brutal grind of physical and magical exhaustion, the training schedule Stone gave me was also a tough routine but it is working well.

I've lost a little weight and the physical exercise is becoming a little easier, I'm still far from being done but I've passed the worst part, I think, and I won't quit now.

I've also made progress in everything else I'm doing, my little planet has been something I've put a decent amount of time into, I've added some greenery and have made some progress on the clouds, the wheat project is still making steady progress and as far as I can tell the bread I make still seems to be fine,

I've also learned a little of the griffin language in the past three months, but I'm only learning it in some of my spare time so I've made slow progress, I'll keep learning for now but eventually I'll need to get some practice with the language, I could try and do some trading at the market with griffin traders, but that's for a later date.

Moving on from that, I've also spent a few days over the last two weeks going through all the books I bought at the auction, most were books I've seen in the library, but a few were new to me, they were mostly uninteresting or useless to me right now, and then there is the hoof written books.

The books are trash, all but one are just journals and diaries, one was a little useful it's a book about research into rock formations, not very useful right now but still better then everything else inside the crate, I did have to buy a bookshelf to store all the books I wanted to keep, and to help keep them nice and organized.

I've kept up with general research and learning a few things here and there, and I've been thinking about what project I want to work on next, I've thought of a few things but most had to be put to the side as they were either too complicated to work on right now, or would make too much of a impact on the world.

A good example of the first thing is healing magic as I'm still learning as much as I can about it but progress is painfully slow, all the spells use way too many symbols with hard concepts to learn properly, I have learned one other healing spell as I thought it would be a large help, and it has.

It helps recover from sore muscles, it speeds up the healing process slightly, the spell doesn't cost that much magic but because you need to use it for an extended period of time it can add up, I've mostly used it to speed up my recovery from training with Stone.

And I've had a few ideas that had to be scrapped because of potential problems, for instance the communication spell I tried to make, I may still make it but after some thought I decided that if I do make it I won't be giving it to others unless it's really needed, it would simply cause too many potential problems to the plot of the story.

But that still leaves me with nothing to work on or improve, I stop running as Stone calls an end to the first half of our training, "hey colt" I look over to Stone as he sits next to me.

"Ya?"

"I've noticed something these last few weeks?" I give him a nod to continue, " did you know you act like a unicorn?"

I raise a brow at him, "in what way?"

"Most unicorns I've met don't do much physical work, they tend to just use their magic instead of their hooves, even I do that just less" I've gained some trust in Stone so I told him about my field as it's a relatively small thing to reveal, "I think you need to get used to using your hooves more.

That's not to say you shouldn't use your field thing, it's a massive advantage over others, especially those who don't see it coming, but like I said you also should use your hoofs more, we don't want you getting hurt if that field ever fails you."

I think on his words for a few moments before realizing he's right, "I think you're right, thanks Stone."

He flashes me a smile "no problem colt that's what I'm here for, let's get back to it", he stands back up and starts walking to the targets.

"Sure" we spend the rest of our time practicing casting spells while moving around, I do this in two ways, first keeping a matrix in the air and moving it with me, at first this proved to be difficult but I've gotten a little better over time.

The other method is to draw the matrix as I walk and make it follow me, this is much harder as walking with three legs is more difficult than it looks, both methods are not easy but I'll need to get better if I want to be able to defend myself while staying mobile.

After I finish the training and make my way home, I like always have to tend to Entropy before she'll let me go about my business, I feed her some juniper berries before heading into my work room, I still don't have any large things to work on so I might as well work on my current projects.

But I also want to try something different for once so I'm going to try and cross breed two plants that are different, I'll still pick two plants that are fairly similar to increase my chances, I grab three pots and some soil before sitting at a desk.

I then grab two seeds from my small collection, a Thimbleberry seed and a black berry seed, I want to breed both of these as they are similar but different enough to see changes, I plant and grow both into small bushes before making them flower and bloom.

I move some pollen from one to the other and let the flowers fruit, I pick the fruit and extract some seeds from the thimbleberry before planting them in the third pot, when the resulting plant grows it looks about the same as the Thimbleberry, I let it grow and fruit before picking a berry.

It looks about the same just a small red berry, I try eating it and don't notice anything different, I try this whole process a few more times trying to change the resulting plant, and after seven attempts I finally get something new, the berries on this bush are a darker shade of red while also being less sweet.

It's not much but I still succeeded in my attempt, I stop for now decomposing all the plants after collecting some seeds, I make some tea to recover my magic and work on the wheat next, I grab both pots of wheat and two other pots before moving them to the workroom desk.

I also grab a Moon Glow seed as I want to experiment with it some after, I decomposed the first Moon Glow a while back as I have plenty of seeds to grow one whenever I need it, I place the wheat on my desk along with the other two pots and remove one of the four pots then plant the Moon Glow seeds inside the pot and put it to the side for later.

I first start by collecting some of the wheat seeds and composting the plants, I need to remix the soil to make it more rocky as the wheat has adapted to the current soil, half way through mixing the soil I decide to use my hooves instead to mix up the soil, it does get a little messy but I get it done.

I clean up and start breeding the wheat, the project has been progressing well in the past two months and I'll probably be done by August or soon after it, beyond that I have confirmed that a plant's magical flows change as the plant does, the wheat's magical flows have changed a slight amount over time.

It's not by much but it still proves the theory, beyond that the wheat has been adapting well so far to the new soil, so I'm adding the second part of this project is the environment spell, I've already made the spell a few weeks ago for when the wheat was ready.

I made the spell by modifying the spell I used for the Juniper Berries, it will create an arid and cold environment for the wheat to grow inside, I take two rubies and spend a few minutes enchanting them and placing them inside the pots with the wheat plants.

I spend a little while growing more wheat and testing how it does in the new environment, the previous breeding seems to have prepared it some so while it does struggle it still grows fine, I breed a few more generations before placing them to the side and focusing on the Moon Glow while drinking some tea.

I haven't done anything with this plant yet and I still don't really know what to do with it now, but I thought I might as well try and see what happens, I plant the seed and after a few moments I have a Moon Glow on my desk, first I'm going to just selectively breed it to see if I can make any changes.

I use another two pots and start trying to find any differences between the plants, after four generations I find two that look promising for different reasons, the first is very slightly brighter than the original, and the second is dimmer than the original.

I want to see if I can get the plant to have a different amount of light and if that will make the light last longer, so I'll be breeding both strains and seeing how they change over time, for now through I decide to start with the brighter strain and breed it first, I spend the next hour working through several generations before stopping.

I put all the plants away or collect seeds and decompose them, after I'm done I start on two things I'll be working on for a while, the first is my small planet, and the second is a smaller thing I'm making as a gift, the Summer Sun Celebration will be here in a few weeks and like last year I'm getting Celestia a gift.

I'm going to send another batch of Blood Leaf Tea and make her something, specifically I'm planning on making her a quill that doesn't need to be refilled, I have a few ideas on how I want to do this but let's start with the small planet.

It's going well, I've added a lot more detail and it's starting to look like an actual planet now, it's not done I'd like to add many more things and at this point I still have eight slots left in the frame so I have a decent amount of things I could choose to add next, one of the first things would probably be a storm of some type.

As for the quill, well having an enchantment to just create ink would be hard but I do have a different idea, I want the quill stand to collect carbon from the air and condense it inside a slot that you dip the quill inside and use it to write, I'm not sure if I'll be able to make something like this but I think it's possible.

I'll probably need to use a medium gem for this, it is a massive waste for something like a quill but I think it will be a nice gift so I'm doing it anyway, I'll also need it to draw properly, which I'm not even sure is possible with just carbon but it's worth a try.

I spend the rest of the night going through different notes and runes before getting some sleep.

Author's Note

Thanks for reading, also I have a little writers block over what Shade should try and invent next, so if you have any suggestions I would appreciate the help, only if you want to though.
Have a good day. :D