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!

make it! You will

However!

higher

to raise my level and gain more mutations before I’m prepared to explore this space. I will conquer

Back up we go!

shaft and regroup back

now. 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

have access to the easier XP and Biomass I can gather from there and will be forced

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 like

I zip back out to the main tunnel and immediately stealth up to the ceiling, antennae waving in the air as I cast my eyes about to spot prey. If I 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 point from

would hunt one of those

the slug creatures is sliding along on the wall to my left. I don’t have two days to sit around starving

trail. I keep

a long slimy body topped with brightly coloured spines that seem to grow organically from the creatures back. I

to the creature

from the slug slightly I nip behind a rock and

Aaaaaaand nothing happens.

to my sneak attack. I thought as much. That thick layer of mucus is protecting the creature from my acid

Damn slug.

to use a slime

then. I will

...

even ants on Earth are able 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

slug can even

Gweheheheh.

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