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

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

a significant upgrade to my stats in order to condense the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that I can’t

likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those

made the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use mana was just too tantalising in

be able to level back up to five and evolve again? Which

which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at a faster pace than evolving would

level five. I won’t even look at the

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

deep breath I walk out into the open air

place is so

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

I don’t have to blink, more to the point I can’t since I have no eyelids. Secondly, my eyes

of my vision, especially over a distance. It probably also explains

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 my mutations into some crazy

Any clues Gandalf?

...

this state. For all his immense wisdom the grey one has been very

little extra advice would

for me to do but move into this new

of the small tunnel and exposing myself to

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

as far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath face me everywhere I turn. The whole ... forest ... pulses with the now familiar ambient

alien, for the first time

front claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant mushroom. These things are easily twice the height of an adult

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