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

my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good

hunch was correct and the monster 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 the pool in the first cavern I was in. By drinking the water which was somehow suffused with mana they were able to absorb it and hasten the

upgrade to my stats in order to condense the core which has given me, in effect,

advance now into what is likely more dangerous territory than I have

but worry I’ve made the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use mana

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

better. I’ll have a second opportunity to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me

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.

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

I walk out into the open

place is so

and

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 distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak up on me, since I’m essentially watching

body part I mutate 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

Any clues Gandalf?

...

his immense wisdom the grey one has been

would surely

isn’t anything left for me to do but move into

leaving the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing myself

word to describe this place, it feels like a

I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath

time I really think

them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant

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