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!
leaps and bounds! I managed to more than double my Might stat and also increase my Toughness significantly! Evolution is clearly
wise decision to condense my core, as well as the good luck I had to reinforce it to the maximum before evolving. The bonus provided by the core was no joke and my evolution would
I max my core out
Ha!
self yet and I’m already thinking about the next
Out of the chamber!
seemingly much smaller chamber and out into the
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
If you’d seen an ant that size on
before, with a little more edge in them, which should assist me in getting through enemy defences. I can also feel that my acid gland has increased in size along with the rest of me, possibly
capacity has increased, allowing me to take in
Ho boy! So exciting!
to the feeling of my new body.
notice that my mana is empty so I join the monsters around the lake for a
appears to have gone out whilst I was evolving. I’ll have to be
hour to drink five times, taking it slowly
I
my monster core during an evolution, it’s even more important
is to
long to move around the Lake and head towards
path they took directly from their camp to the lake. Eventually I arrive at the tree were I buried
issue with me absorbing all four of them and my max MP goes up to
cores to max me out, for this stage
to get all of them
step for
was able to defeat them before without evolving and the risk is
the centipede mound and up into my scout tree once more. I’m significantly heavier now so
do three, four with a bit of trouble. Five was a
Let’s try four...
before. Large groups of
a group
them I don’t miss the opportunity and immediately climb down to
my longer legs and more powerful frame. I’m
reason I just don’t feel the same sort of tension
once they almost looked me in the eye I’m now able to
sympathy
don’t waste any time and place myself directly
Welcome! To your doom!
POW!
superb accuracy, covering the lead centipede across its back and down one
carefully I quickly line up
POW!
directly struck as it moves forward to assess
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