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!

make it! You will conquer

However!

I will retreat to higher up and get

sensible choice! I need to raise my level and gain

Back up we go!

the shaft and regroup back in my

pressured by time 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 could come down in this direction at any time, so I have to stay safe,

down, I won’t have access to the easier XP and Biomass I can gather from there and will be forced into the open space

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 like to. Time for this ant to go

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 Gandalf, which means I would need to try and hunt one of the mollusc creatures (ugh),

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

don’t have two days to sit around starving myself

to avoid standing in its slime trail. I keep a constant eye on my surroundings as

they are very sizeable, a long slimy body topped with brightly coloured spines that seem to grow

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

rock

Aaaaaaand nothing happens.

mucus is protecting the creature from my acid and will do exactly the same thing if I try to bite it with my jaws, I’d

Damn slug.

use a slime barrier?! Could you make this

then. I will show you

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around for

isn’t clear the slug can

Gweheheheh.

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