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

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

it raises my spirit a bit. Looks like my hunch was correct and the monster core is the vital ingredient to mastering magic for

the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that I can’t

is likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased stats would have been super

of being able to use mana was

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 points as

which could allow me to gain more

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 case mana

body and shaken the dust off my mind as I reach the end of the tunnel. Beyond here lies the vast underground space

a deep breath I walk out into

place is

maybe even seventy meters 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 into the distance to a place I cannot see, my eyesight isn’t good enough, even at plus four, to be able to

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

distance. It probably also explains why

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

Any clues Gandalf?

...

all his immense wisdom the grey one has been

would surely be helpful

left for me to do but move into

I more down the slope, leaving the shelter of the small

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

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

first time I really think to myself,

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

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