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 I’ve had? It hasn’t been easy to survive to this point you know?!

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

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

into what is likely more dangerous territory than

wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use

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

an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more

at level four which will need to be advanced once they reach level five. I won’t even look at the skills menu in

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

walk out

this place is

own death. To my left and right the walls curve away into the distance to a

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

my vision, especially over a distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak up on me, since I’m essentially watching every direction

still believe 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

Any clues Gandalf?

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

would surely be helpful

stalling. There isn’t anything left for me to do but

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

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

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

alien, for the first time

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

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