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!
significantly! Evolution is clearly incredibly important to a
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 bonus provided by the core was no joke and my evolution
core out
Ha!
haven’t even had a look at my new self yet and I’m already thinking
Out of the chamber!
out of my seemingly much smaller chamber
as tall? Maybe the same for length? Which would make me roughly sixty
you’d seen an ant that size on
other ways as well. My Mandibles are significantly larger than 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
also assume my stomach capacity has increased, allowing me to take in
Ho boy! So exciting!
little bit and turn on the spot, trying to get used to the feeling of my new body. I really feel much stronger than before! I can’t wait to
chill out a moment. Checking my status again I notice that my mana is empty so I join the monsters around the
appears to have gone out whilst I was evolving. I’ll have to be extra careful since I don’t want to run
half an hour to drink five times, taking
should I do
it is to improve my monster core during an
mission is to go collect my buried
to move around the Lake and head towards the camp
path they took directly from their camp to the lake.
it took five cores to max me out, for this stage of evolution can I expect it to
get all of them before I evolve. The
step for me is to test my new
I hate to do it, I think targeting the centipede nest makes a lot of sense. I was able to defeat them before
to make my way back to the centipede mound and up into my scout tree once more. I’m significantly heavier now so climbing trees is a bit more difficult ,but not much more since my weight increase is balanced
centipedes I should take on at once now. I was able to do three, four with a bit of trouble. Five was
Let’s try four...
is more activity here than there was before. Large groups of up to ten are leaving and returning with a higher frequency than I’d seen not that long ago. What is going on with
a fair while before a group of
them I don’t miss the
now, with my longer legs and more powerful
the same sort of tension
much larger than these centipedes now. Where once they almost looked me in the eye I’m now able to look down on them comfortably. Almost like I’m bullying the tiny little
sympathy
I get in front I don’t waste any
Welcome! To your doom!
POW!
accuracy, covering the
too carefully I quickly
POW!
that! The second centipede is directly struck as it moves forward to assess the
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