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!
your resolve Anthony! You are going to make it! You will conquer this space and reunite with your
However!
will retreat to higher up
like that, this 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!
retreat up the shaft and regroup back in
in earlier, which is now fully occupied by soldiers. They could come down
from there and will be forced into the open space below without
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 like to. Time for this ant
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 Gandalf,
hell I would hunt one of those giant crocodiles, they are so much more frightening than everything
about I notice one of the slug creatures is sliding along on the wall to my left. I don’t have two days to sit around starving myself as I obsessively
trail. I keep a constant
even less appealing, probably twice my body length they are very sizeable, a long slimy body topped with brightly coloured spines that seem to grow organically from the
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 increase its speed but I suspect
from the slug slightly I nip behind a rock
Aaaaaaand nothing happens.
slide along the wall, seemingly totally 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
Damn slug.
you had to use a slime barrier?! Could you
way you want to play, fine then. I will show you the power of
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are able to do. As the slug continues to slide its way along the wall I quickly scout around for some dirt. Grabbing a
clear the slug can even feel what
Gweheheheh.
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