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

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

hunch was correct and the monster core is the vital ingredient to mastering magic for me and my fellow creatures

the core which has given me,

territory than I have experienced already,

the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use mana

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

creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at a faster

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

mind as I

I walk out into the

place

to my own death. To my left and right the walls curve away into the

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

also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak up on me,

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

Any clues Gandalf?

...

I shouldn’t be surprised at this state. For all his immense wisdom the grey one has

would surely

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

of the small tunnel and exposing myself to the

describe this place, it feels like a fully enclosed world, like

I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of

just so alien, for the first time I really think to myself, this is absolutely

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

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