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

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

to mastering magic for me and my fellow creatures down here. This could

condense the core which has given me,

territory than I have experienced already, those increased stats

prospect of being able to use mana was just too tantalising

up to five and evolve again? Which also means I’ll be able to gain

is actually better. I’ll have a second opportunity to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at

once they reach level five. I won’t even look at the skills menu in case mana shaping or spell chanting has

as I reach the end of

out into the open air once

this place

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

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

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 up on me, since I’m essentially watching every direction

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

Any clues Gandalf?

...

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

advice would surely

left for me

small tunnel and exposing myself to the

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

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

is just so alien, for the first time I really

see if they react. When they

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