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

all the ridiculous good luck I’ve

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

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

likely more dangerous territory than

can’t help but worry I’ve made the wrong choice, the prospect of being able

be that bad, doesn’t it mean that I’ll be able to level back up to five and evolve again? Which also means I’ll be able to gain more of the precious skill points

creature which could allow me to gain more levels

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

I’ve regained full control of my body and shaken the dust off my mind as I reach

breath I walk out into

this place is

One slip and I would certainly plummet to my own death. To my left and right the walls curve away into the distance to a place I

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,

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

be the first 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?

...

immense wisdom the grey one

would

anything left for me to do but

slope, leaving the shelter of the small

to describe this place, it feels like a fully enclosed world, like a biome or

can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized

scene is just so alien, for the first time I really think to

see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward

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