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

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

to my stats in order to condense the core which

than I have experienced already, those increased stats would have been

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

back up to five and evolve again?

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

reach level five. I won’t even look at the skills menu in case mana

control of my body and shaken the dust off my mind as I reach the

out

place is so

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 isn’t

blink, more to the point I can’t since I have no eyelids. Secondly,

of my vision, especially over a distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak up on me, since I’m essentially watching every direction at

eyes has 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

Any clues Gandalf?

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

advice would surely be

left for me to do but move into

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

this place, it feels like a

can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet of plant-life underneath face me everywhere I turn. The whole

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

grasses and plants with my front claw, snipping at them to see if they react. When they don’t respond I

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