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

all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t

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 monsters were drawn to the pool in the first cavern I

to condense the core which

advance now into what is likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased

help but worry I’ve made the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use mana was just too

that I’ll be able to level back up to five

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 a

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

my mind as I reach the end

a deep breath I walk out into the open air once

this place is

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 a place I cannot see, my eyesight

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,

so frustrated by the blurry nature of my vision, especially over a distance. It probably also

the first body part I mutate to +5. Since skills can evolve

Any clues Gandalf?

...

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

isn’t anything left for me to do but move

slope, leaving the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing

enough word to describe this place, it feels like

through the rocks I strain my eyes to see as far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath face me everywhere

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

at them to see if they react. When they

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