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
My hard work, my accumulated experience, all the ridiculous good luck I’ve had? It hasn’t been
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
about though, I’ve sacrificed a significant upgrade to my stats in order to condense the core which has given
likely more dangerous territory than I have experienced already, those increased stats would have
worry I’ve made the wrong choice, the prospect of being able
back up to five and evolve again? Which also means I’ll be able to gain more of the precious skill points
to amass skill points as an unevolved creature which could allow me to gain more levels and skill points at a faster pace than evolving would
reach level five. I won’t even look at
full control of my body and shaken the dust off my mind as I reach the
walk out
this place is so
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 isn’t good enough, even at plus four, to be
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
distance. It probably also explains why I’ve been able to avoid having anything sneak up on me, since I’m
and they’ll probably be the first body part I mutate to +5. Since skills can evolve at
Any clues Gandalf?
...
at this state. For all his immense wisdom the grey one
advice would surely be helpful
stalling. There isn’t anything left for me to do but move into
the slope, leaving the shelter of the small tunnel and exposing myself to the open
even a large enough word to describe this place, it feels like a fully enclosed world, like a biome
as far into the distance as I can. Strange twisted trees, huge oversized mushrooms and a carpet
is just so alien, for the first time
react. When they don’t respond
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