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

level one Gandalf?! My hard work, my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve

MP has gone from 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

though, I’ve sacrificed a significant upgrade to my stats in order to condense the core

advance now into what is likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased stats would have

made the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to

back up to five and evolve again? Which

to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me

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

of my body and shaken the dust off my mind as I

breath I walk out into the open air

place

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 cannot see, my

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 one place they are directly looking at in great detail, my

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

+5. Since skills can evolve at +5 I’m

Any clues Gandalf?

...

immense

would surely be

me to do but move into this

slowly I more down the slope, leaving the shelter of the small tunnel

enough word to describe this place, it feels like a fully enclosed world,

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

first time I really think to myself,

snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond

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