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*

I exhaust my mana, once again failing at my last attempt, unsuccessfully

ahead

getting more and more accustomed to this rest. Without closing my eyes, just going still and sort of zoning out

I wake up feeling much more rested

Phew.

exciting development have happened here. I need to continue to take it slow for a little

keep track of the lake there is a chance I’ll be able to join up with a group of my colony mates and follow them

available is to try and follow the trail back to the nest on my

continue to train

It may not be the flashiest skill, the best use in combat or indeed,

But I like it!

of the ant is, it would be their incredible capacity to construct their nests and at the center of this is the ability to dig

few directions just a meter under the surface, diverting around,

and it isn’t long before I encounter tree roots the buried stems of the giant mushrooms in my

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 nice place

notice when the notification for the skill reaching level came through. When I stop working and try to think about how

Level five Dig!

I had a skill point, I’d be super curious to see what

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

check to see if my colony has shown up for a

lake hoping to see my own kind there

still a wide variety of creatures drinking

Ah well.

Hopefully next time!

me to do is to either try

Wait a sec...

hell

overlooking the lake. At that distance I can’t see perfectly but I can see enough to think that I know

And they aren’t monsters!

dive into my tunnel and start scurrying away from the lake and

heck are these humans

that hill. Have they followed me

a shaft, the most direct possible route, who knows how many winding tunnels they had to go through