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

am I level one Gandalf?! My hard work, my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t been easy to survive to

the vital ingredient to mastering magic for me and my fellow creatures down here. This could explain why so many monsters

to my stats in order to condense the core which has given me, in effect, only ten MP that I can’t use. Was this really the

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

the wrong choice, the prospect of being able to use

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

creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at a

have 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

mind as I reach the end of the tunnel. Beyond here

out into the

place is so

own death. To my left and right the walls curve away into the distance

can’t since

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

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

Any clues Gandalf?

...

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

would surely be helpful

me to do but

slowly I more down the slope, leaving the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing myself to

even a large enough word to describe this place, it feels like a fully enclosed world, like a biome or

into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath face me everywhere I turn. The whole ... forest ... pulses with

alien, for the first time

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

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