After reaching the mushroom forest i decided to break my army into three groups, one group was to hunt the undead inhabiting the mushroom forest, from experience I found that allowing the essence from dead undead to join the essence floating around the area would not only purify the essence but also create a natural fog that would cancel out the harmful effect from the sun. Another group was to create a rudimentary map of the mushroom forest so that i can improve it later. The last group was to help me research the mushroom forest.
I felt it as soon as i stepped into the forest, the mushrooms somehow evolved under the influence of high amounts of undead essence to absorb other forma of essence and convert it to undead essence. These kinds of mushrooms released an eerie green glow from their caps, they were scattered all over the forest acting as a sort of grid that constantly produced undead essence. For some reason, these kinds of mushrooms could not get to close to one another or they'd indirectly starve each other until one or both perished due to hunger.
"This is all so fascinating, this isnt the first time i witnessed an evolution brought on from undead essence, but this is the first time i witnessed something capable of converting another essence into undead essence!"
My army was already at the level where it could sustain itself so i could spend this time researching this...unexpected discovery. The first couple weeks of my research led me to the discovery of the part of the mushroom that converts all essences into undead essence, it was a pale green flame found in the center of the cap, this was what most likely released the green glow. Their was a lot of fine hair over the cap of the mushrooms and underneath the hair grew into fine strands, these strands acted as a collector of sorts that draws essence into the space with the flame.
It was after the essence was drawn into that space that my research it a wall, the flame seemed to have an effect that caused any attempts at viewing the process impossible.
"What is this flame..."
With no way left to go something took it as queue to point out its presence, the golden flame father left me seemed to grow impatient and decided to remind me that curing the planet was more important then my research. It burned me for a minute before returning to its place beside my soul.
'Could father's flame show me something about the green flame that my research can't?'
At first it was just a thought in the back of my mind but every day it continued to worm its way to the front of my mind until i couldn't help it no more. I called on the golden flame and did my best to convince it to burn just the one mushroom, after a week of convincing i was greeted with the site of the golden flame engulfing the mushroom entirely while avoiding the mushrooms around it.
As the mushroom burned the pale green flame was engulfed by father's golden flame, for a couple seconds it put up a fight but in the end father's flame absorbed the pale green flame. When it returned to my palm the flame was no longer pure gold, on the edge of the flame specks of green could be seen, but after a minute the specks went away.
'Now thats new!'