Chrysalis

Chapter 24

I don’t know how much time had passed before I regain consciousness. The light slowly returns to my eyes and sensation to my limbs.

Deep inside my thorax (the middle bit) a hot, boiling feeling is slowly fading away, drawing in a dense ball of heat. Probably my new core.

Groggily I get my legs underneath me and start slowly moving through the tunnel again. No matter how weak I feel, I cannot stay here to rest, pursuers could be dropping down the shaft to investigate even now. I have to move.

Gradually my muddled thoughts begin to straighten themselves and my coordination slowly returns. As I navigate my way across the rocky tunnel I check my status.

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)

Might: 15

Toughness: 12

Cunning: 25

Will: 18

HP: 30

MP: 10

Skills: Digging level 4; Improved Acid Shot Level 1; Grip Level 4; Bite Level 4; Advanced Stealth Level 1; Tunnel Sense Level 3;

Mutations: Eyes +4, Antennae +2, Acid +3, Legs +1

Species: Hatchling Ant Worker (Formica)

Skill points: 1

Biomass: 0

ridiculous good luck I’ve had?

core is the vital ingredient to mastering magic for me and my fellow creatures down here. This could explain why so many monsters were drawn to

condense the core which has given me,

territory than I have experienced already, those increased

the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use mana

I’ll be able to level back up to five and evolve again?

is actually better. I’ll have a second opportunity to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at

will need to be advanced once they reach level five. I won’t even look at the skills

the dust off my mind as I reach the end of the tunnel. Beyond

a deep breath I walk out into the open air

place is so

sixty, maybe even seventy meters high, so high I absolutely refuse to climb on it. One slip and I would certainly plummet to my own death. To my left and right the walls

have to blink, more to the point I can’t since I have no eyelids. Secondly, my eyes don’t have one point of focus, unlike a human

by the blurry nature of my vision, especially over a distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having

to +5. Since skills can evolve at +5 I’m very excited to see what will happen when a mutation reaches that level. Will I be able to advance my

Any clues Gandalf?

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shouldn’t be surprised at this state. For all his immense

would surely be helpful

stalling. There isn’t anything left for me to do but

the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing myself to the open air of

place, it feels like a

through the rocks I strain my eyes to see as far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and

alien, for the first time I really think to myself, this is

plants with my front claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant mushroom. These things

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