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

accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t been easy to survive to this point you know?!

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

in order to condense the core which

is likely more dangerous territory than

prospect of being

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?

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 faster pace than evolving would

reach level five. I won’t even look at the skills menu in case mana shaping or

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

walk out into the open air

this place is so

refuse to climb on it. One slip and I would certainly plummet to my own death. To my left and right the walls curve

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 are able to look in many directions at once, but

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

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

Any clues Gandalf?

...

I shouldn’t be surprised at this state. For all his immense wisdom the

would surely

isn’t anything left for me to

small tunnel and exposing myself to the open air of

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

trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath face me everywhere I turn. The whole ... forest ... pulses with the now

the first time I really think to myself, this

claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a

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