Chrysalis

Chapter 40

Do monsters dream when they evolve?

I can’t even close my eyes, let alone properly sleep. When I evolved I had no concept of time or sensation. I can remember confirming my choices and then... nothing. All of my thoughts vanished. Almost as my brain had been completely switched off.

...

And then back on again.

Whoa! What the heck??

I feel... Different.

Um... this is weird. I feel like my core is gradually cooling, as if it had been on fire just moments ago. What is that about?

It’s really strange. It isn’t like as a human you could go to sleep and then wake up in a different body. Like, I can already tell I’m significantly larger than I was before...

Forget this! Check the status!

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)

Might: 31

Toughness: 22

Cunning: 25

Will: 18

HP: 50/50

MP: 0/20

Skills: Excavation Level 1; Improved Acid Shot Level 3; Grip Level 4; Crushing Bite Level 2; Advanced Stealth Level 3; Chomp level 3; Tunnel sense Level 4; Mana Manipulation level 3

Mutations: Focused Eyes +5, Antennae +2, Restrictive Acid +5, Legs +1, Mandibles +4, Carapace +1, Regeneration Gland, Pheromones

Species: Mature Ant Worker (Formica)

Skill points: 1

Biomass: 0

Hmmm.

Hmmmmmmm.

Huuuu ha.

Hahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Behold! Witness my power!

has grown by leaps and bounds! I managed to more than double my Might stat and also increase my Toughness significantly! Evolution is clearly incredibly important to a monsters’ growth in this place. After just a single evolution I’ve been able to make such a huge

to my extremely wise decision to condense my core, as well as the good luck I had to reinforce it to the maximum before evolving. The

sure I max my core out before I evolve the next time

Ha!

new self yet

Out of the chamber!

did myself out of my seemingly much smaller

ho! The evolution has done a lot! I’m significantly larger now, probably twice as tall? Maybe the same for length? Which would make me roughly sixty centimetres tall and a bit less than two

If you’d seen an ant that size on

a little more edge in them, which should assist me in getting through enemy defences. I can also feel that my acid gland

can also assume my stomach capacity has increased, allowing me to take in more

Ho boy! So exciting!

feeling of my new body. I really feel much stronger than before!

I notice that my mana is empty so I join the monsters around the lake

appears to have gone out whilst I was evolving. I’ll have to be extra careful since I don’t want to run into him away from this neutral

times, taking it slowly and feeling

should I do

my monster core during an evolution, it’s even more important

first mission is to go collect

long to move around the Lake and

stay hidden and not move on the path they took directly from their camp to the lake. Eventually I arrive at the tree were I buried the cores without

an issue with me absorbing all four

time it took five cores to max me out, for this stage of evolution can I expect it to take

get all of them before I

logical step for me is to test my new body

sense. I was able to defeat them before without evolving and the risk

back to the centipede mound and up into my scout tree once more. I’m significantly heavier now so climbing trees is

how many centipedes I should take on at once now. I was able to do three, four with a bit of trouble.

Let’s try four...

much diminished, if anything there is more activity here than there was before. Large groups of up

a group of four heads out into the forest for

I spot them I don’t miss the opportunity and immediately climb down to

with my longer legs

don’t feel the same sort of tension

these centipedes now. Where once they almost looked me in the eye I’m now able to look down on them comfortably.

sympathy

I get in front I don’t waste any time and place myself directly in front of

Welcome! To your doom!

POW!

accuracy, covering the lead centipede across its back and

watching the result too carefully I quickly

POW!

The second centipede is directly struck as it

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