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

downgrades? Why am I level one Gandalf?! My hard work, my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t been

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

in order to condense the core which has given me, in

what is likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased

prospect of being able to use mana was just too tantalising

five and evolve again? Which also

an unevolved creature which could

skill point available right now 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 the skills menu in

my mind as I reach the end

a deep breath I walk out

this place

plummet to my own death. To my left and right the walls curve away into the distance to a place I cannot see,

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

a distance. It probably also explains why

body part I mutate to +5. Since skills can evolve at +5 I’m very excited to

Any clues Gandalf?

...

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

little extra advice would surely be helpful

for me to do but

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

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 ...

first time

see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant mushroom. These things

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