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 easy to survive to this point you know?! Where is my
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 stats in order to condense the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that I can’t use.
to advance now into what is likely more dangerous territory than
made the wrong choice, the prospect of being
one may not be that bad, doesn’t it mean that I’ll be able to level back up to five and evolve
have a second opportunity to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow
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 the list.
body and shaken the dust off my mind as I
deep breath I walk out into the open air
this place is
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
I’ve been thinking 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 don’t have one point of
by the blurry nature of my vision, especially over a distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able
correct choice for me and they’ll probably be the first body part I mutate to +5. Since skills can evolve
Any clues Gandalf?
...
state. For all his immense wisdom the grey one has been very
little extra advice would
me
leaving the shelter of the small
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
the first time I really think to myself, this is absolutely another
and plants with my front claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When
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