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

hard work, my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t been

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 was

significant upgrade to my stats in order to condense the core which has

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

the prospect of being able to use

I’ll be able to level back up to five and evolve

points as an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain

one 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 case mana shaping or spell chanting has appeared in

dust off my mind as I reach the end of the tunnel.

breath I walk out into the open

place is

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

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

so frustrated by the blurry nature of my vision, especially over a distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak

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 I’m very excited to see what will happen when a mutation reaches that level. Will I be able to advance my mutations into some crazy

Any clues Gandalf?

...

this state. For all his immense

little extra advice would surely be helpful

for me to do

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

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

the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life

alien, for the first time I really think to myself, this is

if they react. When they don’t respond I move toward a giant mushroom. These things are easily twice the height

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