JUL 25 Friday.

I got out of bed and nearly tripped over a knotted rope on the floor, a few days ago I went shopping with Entropy to buy her some toys and she got a few things, a knotted rope, another small ball, and funnily enough she wanted some building blocks we found.

She seems happy with her toys although I should try and teach her to clean up some, but right now I head to the kitchen and make some food for both of us, when I'm done we take our daily trips to the rented storage room, her training is still progressing well.

It still feels odd every time we teleport, every time I see that place with nothing in I think of my death and past even if it's just for a moment, but thinking of a world that I will never see again won't help save this one, so once we are done I walk into my workroom and get to work.

First a little update on my self-scan project, the gem still needs to fill a lot and the spell still needs more work, I've completed the part of the spell I was working on but still need to add more things, first things first I need some amount of magic to measure with.

I decided to use the firebolt spell for this, as it doesn't use much magic and is consistent, I'll use that as a baseline and scale it up from there, I'm doing this because if I tried to measure the exact amount of magic I'd need a unit of measurement and I don't have that, so I'm just going to use the spell as a rough way to measure my magic.

I start tinkering with the scan spell and get it to link into the firebolt spell, I choose the firebolt spell because it's nice and consistent as it uses the same amount of magic each time it's cast, as for why I don't just cast the spell over and over again until I'm out of magic?

Well running completely out of magic is something you don't want to do, at the low end it will give you a headache and leave you exhausted, and if you overdo it too much it could kill you, that's why I stop using my magic when I start feeling side effects as I want to push my magic to grow not harm myself.

And while I'm casting the spell my magic will regenerate, I can feel my magic but I can only get a rough measure of how much magic I have, so if I used that method I would get an answer that is off by quite a bit as my magic would regenerate while I'm casting.

It takes me over two hours to get both spells to work together properly but when I'm done I have my first prototype, it still needs a lot of work but it's somewhat done so I copy the matrix down and start work on the next thing after I put away anything that I won't need.

I want to mess around with some plants, specifically the wood ring I made in the past, as I think I accidentally discovered something amazing, my magic was full when I dumped it into the Iron Oak sapling, so it got a lot more than normal.

The ring is only an inch wide, and the amount of magic and the small size caused a new reaction in the ironwood, it all started when I tried to shape the rough ring into a proper shape, and failed as my knife did basically nothing to the wood even with its enchantments it only somewhat cut through the bark, I was confused by this and tried to find out the answer.

The wood was tougher than any I've had before, why did this happen only now? Well turns out that when I give the Iron Oak life magic it will use it to strengthen itself and grow larger, but it seems to level off at a certain point and after a while I learned it has a limit and if the plant reaches that limit it will still grow stronger but the progress will level off and slow down to almost nothing.

I think most plants probably have this limit to stop them from taking all the life magic from around them, but when I concentrated that much life magic on something so small it forced the Iron Oak past this limit, in normal circumstances the plant would probably just grow larger.

But I was stopping it while my magic and will still wanted the plant to grow stronger, so when my magic started saturating the plant it was forced to keep making its wood stronger against its nature and past its limits, it seems that I could push a plant past its natural limits if I use enough magic.

The end result of this is the wood ring being so tough I don't even have a way to work with it right now, this discovery is amazing for several reasons but the best is the ring itself, Iron Oak wood becomes slightly more magic resistant and conductive the stronger it is.

So how much magic can this ring hold and use? Well I want to figure that out today, but to do that I need a way to work with this material so I grab my wood carving knife and a medium ruby, I'll also need to create a better spell for this new project so I look through my notes and find the spell I have on my carving knife.

I look through it and try to make it as strong as I can for the new way I'm going to use it, after I'm done I enchant the ruby to hold and gather magic then add the spell, when I'm done I link my knife to the ruby and grab the wood ring, I try and cut into it but even with more the magic behind this enchantment it's not easy.

It takes me a while to remove the bark and start cutting the ring into shape, it takes a while but when I'm done I start on the next step, trying drying the wood out I take it over to my sink and try to force the water out it takes much more time and magic then it normally does but I finish after a while.

I take the ring and place it on my desk and decide to start with something simple, I enchant the ring to gather and hold magic and after a while of giving it magic it's full, it doesn't hold much magic around a tenth the capacity of a small ruby, but this is much higher then I thought it would be.

It brunt out quickly so I'll need to see what the real limit of this wood is by experimenting more, but if I can get it to hold as much as a small ruby it would be amazing, not needing to use small gems would be very convenient for me, but I don't know what the limit of this wood is so I shouldn't get ahead of myself.

This ring can hold a decent amount of magic for how small it is and the fact that it's wood, I'll definitely need to experiment with this more but for now I spend some time taking notes about the ring and any theories I have, I also try to add another spell to the ring, a basic illusion.

But it proves too much for the small ring and it promptly bursts into flame, I'm holding the ring in the air so not much happens I just take it into my kitchen and dump it in some water, that would be a downside to using this wood even if it's tough it can still burn.

There are problems I can see with this wood now that I think about it, first it probably can't handle that much magic going through it at once without damaging the wood, so I'd need to slowly fill and release the magic to keep the wood intact.

I could use this as a cheap way to gather large amounts of magic, but I don't think it will work well if I use it to cast any spells that aren't weak and it would be single use, the magic can be gathered safely but when I try and use it the wood will probably start destroying itself fast.

But this is still an amazing thing to have, I also don't have much to do today so I might as well test some things about it but to do that I need two things.

First, if I want to work with this new wood I need better tools, at the bare minimum I need my saw and wood carving knife and the ruby I enchanted can link to both, but if I want to enchant all the other wood carving tools in my kit I'll need to use more gems then I have right now.

For my saw and carving knife, I need a better enchantment so I take the modified version I made earlier and start taking it apart I need to do more than just modify this spell to get the results I need, I take what little parts of the spell that I can use and start on my new spell.

This spell will be linked to the medium ruby so I can let it use much more magic, I look through my notes on runes and find three that will work well, a rune for carve, a rune for cut, and a rune for sharp, they don't all fit perfectly for this spell but in combination they should work well enough.

I add them and start working on the spell, it takes me a while to get everything to work together but when I'm done I enchant everything and try it on a tiny wood scrap from the ring, I tap the ruby twice and start carving with the knife and I once again get a smooth cut without much resistance.

Once I see that it works I deactivate the ruby and place it to the side to regain its magic, and start on the second thing I will need which is more wood, I still have the pot with the Iron Oak sapling so I grab it and place it on my desk, I want to grow a one-inch piece for some testing so I grow the small stump into a nub.

I grow it a little larger to account for the bark and young wood before starting to saturate the wood, I want this wood to be at least as strong as the ring but the ring had much less mass so this will need more magic, I'll need to do this process a few times to get the same effects so after I'm done draining what magic I have I stop.

I take some time to make tea to help me recover faster, I don't have much I can do without using magic so I decide to look through my notes on other projects, I'm close to finding the rune I need for Entropy's illusion but I'm missing some context for it but I should be able to find it soon.

After organizing my notes on the spell and looking through the runes used my magic has recovered enough to go again, so I dump my magic into the Iron Oak sapling again I also need to wait again so I just decide to draw some as I wait, I look around and start drawing the small griffin statue I bought not long ago.

Author's Note

Sorry that this chapter is short, I have some IRL stuff going on right now so chapters will probably slow down a lot.

But I'll try and keep posting as best I can, thanks for your patience with me and have a good day.