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

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

I’ve sacrificed a significant upgrade to my stats in order to condense the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP

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

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

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

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

but I don’t want to spend 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

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

walk out into the open air

this place is so

it. One 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 eyesight isn’t good enough, even at plus four, to be able to see

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

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

part I mutate to +5. Since skills can evolve at +5 I’m very excited to see what will happen

Any clues Gandalf?

...

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

extra advice would surely

for me to do but move

shelter of the small

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

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

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

poke the grasses and plants with my front claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant

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