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

ridiculous good

the monster core is the vital ingredient to mastering magic for me and

condense the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that I can’t use. Was this really

territory than I have experienced already, those increased

of

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

creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill

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. I may not be able to resist the temptation! Be disciplined Anthony!

the dust off my mind as I reach the

out

place is so

left and right the walls curve away into the distance to a place I cannot see, my eyesight

a few things, 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

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

still believe upgrading my eyes has been the correct choice for me and they’ll probably be the first body part I mutate to +5. Since skills can evolve at

Any clues Gandalf?

...

For all his immense wisdom the grey one has been very taciturn, or

would surely be

stalling. There isn’t anything left for me to do but move

more down the slope, leaving the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing myself to the open air of this

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

I descend, picking my way through the rocks I strain my eyes to see as far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life

just so alien, for the first time

plants with my front claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond

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