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

experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t been easy to survive to this point

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

about though, I’ve sacrificed a significant upgrade 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 correct

than I have experienced

choice, the prospect of

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

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 faster pace than

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

and shaken the dust off my mind as I reach the end of the tunnel. Beyond here lies the vast underground

out into the open

this place

my left and right the walls curve away into the distance to a place I cannot see,

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 focus, unlike a human who can see

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,

can evolve at +5 I’m very excited to

Any clues Gandalf?

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immense wisdom the grey one has been very taciturn, or perhaps he’s just

advice would surely be

stalling. There isn’t anything left for me to do

the slope, leaving the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing myself to the open air of this incredible

to describe this place, it feels like a fully enclosed world, like a

I can. Strange twisted trees, huge

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

snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond

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