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

am I level one Gandalf?! My hard work, my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve

that my MP has gone from zero to ten 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

think about though, I’ve sacrificed a significant upgrade to my stats in order to condense the core which has given me, in effect,

have to advance now into what is likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased stats would have been super

can’t help but worry I’ve made the wrong choice, the prospect of being able

to level one 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 to gain more of the precious skill

better. I’ll have a second opportunity to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at a

they reach level five. I won’t even look at the skills menu in case mana shaping or spell chanting has appeared in

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

I walk out into the open air

place is

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 into the distance to

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 at in great detail, my eyes

also explains why I’ve been able

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

Any clues Gandalf?

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shouldn’t be surprised at this state. For all his immense wisdom the grey one has been very taciturn, or perhaps

advice would

left for me to do

of the small tunnel and exposing myself to the open air of

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

distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath face

first time I really

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 mushroom. These things are easily twice the height of an

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