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!

it! You will conquer this space and reunite

However!

to higher up and

look at me like that, this is clearly the sensible choice! I need to raise my level and gain

Back up we go!

the shaft and regroup

is connected to the cavern I was in earlier, which

and Biomass I can gather from there and will be forced

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

If I want to maximise my Biomass gains then I should be sure to target the creatures I haven’t been able to

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

slug creatures is sliding along on the wall to my left. I don’t have

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

creature is 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 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

slug slightly I nip behind a rock and then quickly give it a surprise blast

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

Damn slug.

measures you could employ, you had to use a slime

the way you want to play, fine then. I will show you the power

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to slide its way along the wall I quickly scout around for some dirt. Grabbing a mandible full I sneak up

It isn’t clear the slug can

Gweheheheh.

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