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 had? It hasn’t been easy to survive to this point you know?! Where

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 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

condense the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that

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

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

may not 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

opportunity to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at a

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 temptation! Be disciplined Anthony! Don’t

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

deep breath I walk out into the open

place is

roof is 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 curve away

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

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

and they’ll probably be the first body part I mutate to +5. Since skills can evolve at +5 I’m very excited to

Any clues Gandalf?

...

at this state. For all his immense wisdom

extra advice would surely be helpful

left for me to do but move into this new

the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing

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

trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath face me everywhere I turn. The whole ... forest ...

time I really

them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant mushroom. These things are easily twice

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