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.

...

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!

are going to make it! You will conquer this space

However!

higher up and get some

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

Back up we go!

shaft and regroup back in my

was in earlier, which is now fully occupied by soldiers. They could come down in this

Biomass I can gather from there and will be forced into the open space below

fast. It has become necessary to throw some of my earlier caution to the wind and make bold moves. Without XP and Biomass 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

want to maximise my Biomass gains then I should be sure to target the creatures I haven’t been able to consume yet, ensuring I get the bonus

have no idea how the hell I would hunt one of those giant crocodiles, they are so much

to my left. I don’t have two days to sit around starving myself as I obsessively study the creature, I’m going

up behind the hideous snail creature, making sure to avoid standing in its slime trail. I keep a constant eye on

very sizeable, a long slimy body topped with brightly coloured spines that

I draw closer to still to the creature I’m able to notice something else, the body

nip behind a rock and then quickly give it a surprise

Aaaaaaand nothing happens.

oblivious to my sneak attack. I thought as much. That thick layer of mucus is protecting the creature from my acid and will do exactly the same thing if I try to bite it with my jaws,

Damn slug.

could employ, you had to use a slime barrier?!

that’s the way you want to play, fine then. I will show you the

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for some dirt. Grabbing a mandible full I sneak up behind the slug and place the chunk of soil on its side before

the slug can even feel what

Gweheheheh.

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