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

the ridiculous good luck

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 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

the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that I

dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased stats would have

choice, the prospect of being able

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

to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could

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

as I reach the end of the tunnel. Beyond here lies the vast

walk out into

this place

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 the ends of the

I’ve been thinking more on. As an insect, I don’t have regular eyes like a human, but compound eyes. This means 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

especially over a distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak up on me,

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 +5 I’m very excited

Any clues Gandalf?

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all his immense wisdom the grey one has been very taciturn, or perhaps he’s

little extra advice would

me to do but move into this new

small tunnel and exposing myself to the open

isn’t even a large enough word to describe this place, it feels like a fully enclosed world, like a biome

far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a

for the first time I really

front claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant mushroom. These things are

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