Chrysalis

The trail has been detected!

It looks the members of my colony have been to this lake after all! This is incredible news, I could possibly just wait here next to the lake for them to show up and follow them back to the nest!

Staying close to the lake I tip tap my antennae on the ground and follow the trail away from the water. It absolutely seems like a solid trail has been lain down here. The more often ants use a particular path the more they will reinforce the trail with pheromones, making the trail more and more solid.

I don’t think this path this path has been in particularly heavy use but members of the colony have certainly been here a few times.

I retreat back to the safety of the lake and can’t resist a small dance of happiness.

Nearby monsters are looking at me funny out of the corner of their eyes. It probably isn’t very often they are treated to some amateur ant freestyle tap.

My new family is with reach!

After being on my own in this Dungeon for days on end it’ll feel so nice just to see another entity that doesn’t want to eat me!

I’ll get to see my Mother in another world, the Queen. I wonder how big she is?

I really didn’t get to see my mother much back on earth, most of the time I’d been on my own. Hopefully this time I’ll be able to help out a bit more and we can work together!

Gah! I’m too excited!

Need to chill, need to calm down.

It’s important I don’t forget where I am, this environment is incredibly dangerous. If I run about whilst this distracted I’ll just get myself killed.

I scout around for a few minutes until I find a nice nest site and dig myself my now patented L chamber and close over the top.

Ensconced in total darkness I once again begin the exhausting process of training my Mana Manipulation.

*puff*

The chamber is briefly illuminated every time the small cloud of mana is released from my mouth.

*puff*

my last attempt, unsuccessfully

ahead is still

insect. I’m getting more and more accustomed to this rest. Without closing my

up feeling

Phew.

continue to take it slow for a little while and take

isn’t a bad one, the added benefit now is that if I keep track of the lake there

back to the nest on my own but I’m reluctant to take that

and continue to train up a

I want to increase is Dig. It may not be the flashiest skill, the best use in

But I like it!

the fundamental skill of the ant is, it would be their incredible capacity to construct their nests and at the center of

chamber, digging small, narrow tunnels in a few directions just a meter under the surface, diverting around, under or stopping a

here is particularly wet as well, I have to extend away from the lake and it isn’t long before I encounter tree roots the buried stems of the giant

out what is happening around the place. This mini exits also provide a

when the notification for the skill reaching level came through. When I stop working and try to think about how much time has passed I realise I must have

Level five Dig!

I’d be super curious to see

am getting a little hungry, it may be time to think about trying to hunt for

see if my colony

own kind there getting some refreshments but unfortunately

variety of creatures drinking here but I can’t

Ah well.

Hopefully next time!

the only things left for me to do is to either try and go hunting or wait and continue to train

Wait a sec...

the hell is

a small hill overlooking the lake. At that distance I

And they aren’t monsters!

second thought I dive into my tunnel and start scurrying away from the lake and I don’t stop until I make it under the

are these humans

definitely some human shapes over that hill. Have they followed me here

direct possible route, who knows how many winding tunnels they had to go through to make it