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

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

heart as I survey my new status, but when I notice that my MP 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 down here. This could explain why so many

my stats in order to condense the core which has given me, in

have to advance now into what is likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased stats would have been super

the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use mana was just too tantalising in

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

unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill

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

as I reach the end of the tunnel. Beyond here lies the vast

out into

this place is so

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

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

distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak up on me, since I’m essentially watching

+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

Any clues Gandalf?

...

surprised at this state. For all his immense wisdom the grey one has been very taciturn, or perhaps he’s just

would surely

me to do

small tunnel and exposing

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

descend, picking my way through the rocks I strain my eyes to see as far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized

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

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

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