Chrysalis

Chapter 18

Spreading out before my very (small) eyes is an impossible vista. A huge underground world of incredible size, the entire floor covered in strange, magical plant life.

Bizarre looking trees and giant mushrooms loom below me, casting deep shadows over a forest floor covered in grasses and plants similar to the strange crystal flower I saw in the shaft. The entire scene is suffused with the blue light I’ve seen in the tunnels before, the plants themselves have the creeping veins of light twisting through their forms.

As I watch the entire seen pulses, just like I’d seen in the tunnel walls.

This is insane.

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Gandalf? What is going here?!

How can an under-ground space of this scale exist? I can’t even see the other side?! The roof looks like its 60 meters high! I didn’t expect to see this flourishing eco system?

This place must be absolutely crawling with monsters!

The thought grips my little ant heart. Somewhere in this massive cavern my colony exists, or perhaps they are even further away than this and the scout passed through this area on its way higher up!

At any rate, I somehow have to explore this space.

I can’t help but feel depressed. The vista in front of me is exotic and exciting but I can’t appreciate it whilst I’m in a position of not knowing the first thing about it! In such a massive open space, what size could the monsters have grown to? How much Biomass could they pile up in a flourishing area like this?

I have no idea!

Gah!

to make it! You will conquer this space and reunite with your

However!

I will retreat to higher up

is clearly the sensible choice! I need to raise my level and gain more mutations before I’m prepared to explore this

Back up we go!

and regroup back

If my suspicions are correct then the ’main’ tunnel up here is connected to the cavern I was in earlier, which is now fully occupied by soldiers. They could come down in this direction at any time, so I have to

gather from there and will be forced into the open space below without any further preparation. Taking all this into

I won’t survive if I push deeper into this place and I can’t take my time acquiring said XP and Biomass as I’d like to. Time for this

Biomass gains then I should be sure to target the creatures I haven’t been able to consume yet, ensuring I get the bonus point from Gandalf, which means I would need to try and hunt one of the mollusc creatures (ugh), the tail rat

idea how the hell I would hunt one of those giant crocodiles, they are so much more

along on the wall to my left. I don’t have two days to sit

the hideous snail creature, making sure to avoid standing in its slime trail. I keep a constant eye on my surroundings as I do, not wanting get caught out by anything as

body length they are very sizeable, a long slimy

poke out from the front of the monsters head, either eyes or antennae on the end, I’m not sure, they could be a vulnerable point to attack later. As I draw closer to still to the creature I’m able to notice something else, the body constantly releases a thick covering of mucus, presumably to help grease the path of the creature to

away from the slug slightly I nip behind a rock and then

Aaaaaaand nothing happens.

protecting the creature from my

Damn slug.

all the defensive measures you could employ, you had to use a slime barrier?! Could you

then. I will show you the power

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to do. As the slug continues to slide its way along the wall I quickly scout around for some dirt. Grabbing a mandible full I sneak up behind the slug and place the chunk of soil on

clear the slug can even

Gweheheheh.

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