Chrysalis

Chapter 31

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*

failing at my last attempt, unsuccessfully directing the energy

road ahead is

the state of torpor, the sleep equivalent of the insect. I’m getting more and more accustomed to this rest. Without closing

feeling much more

Phew.

continue to take it slow for a little

the lake there is a chance I’ll be able to join up with a group

on my own but I’m reluctant to take

to

want to increase is Dig. It may not be the flashiest skill, the best use in combat or indeed, particularly useful for

But I like it!

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

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

lake and it isn’t long before I encounter tree

I dig up to the surface to create a little ventilation and also just to scope out what is happening around the place. This mini exits also provide a

came through. When I stop working and

Level five Dig!

I’d be super curious to see what this

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

my colony has shown

lake hoping to see my own kind there getting some refreshments but

a wide variety of creatures drinking here but I can’t

Ah well.

Hopefully next time!

for me to do is to either try and go hunting or wait and

Wait a sec...

hell

make out some shapes making their way over the crest of a small hill overlooking the lake. At that distance I can’t

And they aren’t monsters!

thought I dive into my tunnel and start scurrying away from the

the heck are these

shapes over that hill.

the most direct possible route, who knows how many winding tunnels

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