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

of downgrades? Why am I level one Gandalf?! My hard work, my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t been easy to survive to this point you know?! Where is my

zero to ten it raises my spirit a bit. Looks like my hunch was correct and the monster core is the vital ingredient to mastering magic for me and my

condense the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that I can’t use. Was this really

more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those

choice, the prospect of being able to

bad, doesn’t it mean that I’ll be able to level back up to five and evolve again? Which also means I’ll

skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at a faster pace than evolving would

one skill point available right now but I don’t want to spend it yet. I have several skills at level four which will need to be advanced once they reach level five. I won’t even look at the skills menu in case mana shaping or spell chanting has appeared in the list. I may not be able to resist the

mind as I

breath I walk out into

this place is so

To my left and right the walls curve away into the distance

more on. As an insect, I don’t have regular eyes like a human, but compound eyes. This means a few things, firstly, my eyes don’t need to be wet, so I don’t 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 who can see the

vision, especially over a distance. It probably also

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 mutations into some crazy

Any clues Gandalf?

...

his immense wisdom the grey one has

extra advice would

isn’t anything left for me

I more down the slope, leaving the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing myself to the

isn’t even a large enough word to describe this place, it feels like a fully

far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms

first time I really think to myself, this is absolutely

When they don’t respond I move toward a giant mushroom. These things are easily

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