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!

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 different

it to the maximum before evolving. The bonus provided by the core was no joke and my evolution would not have

max my core out before I evolve the next time as

Ha!

at my new self yet and I’m

Out of the chamber!

I did myself out of my seemingly much smaller chamber and out

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

size on

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

allowing me to take in more

Ho boy! So exciting!

used to the feeling of my new

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

evolving. I’ll have to be extra careful since I don’t want to run into him away from

to drink five times, taking it slowly

I do

it is to improve my monster core during

first mission is to go collect my

around the

directly from their camp to the lake. Eventually I arrive at the

doesn’t have an issue with me absorbing all four of them and my max MP goes up to

out, for this stage of

get all of them before I evolve. The bonus

step for me is

I hate to do it, I think targeting the centipede nest makes a lot of sense. I was able to defeat them before without evolving and the risk is low. Let’s go see what

my way back to the centipede mound and up into my scout tree once more. I’m significantly heavier

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

Let’s try four...

me picking on these centipedes quite a bit, their numbers don’t seem much diminished, if anything there 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

a fair while before a group of four

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

quite a bit faster now, with my longer legs and more powerful

some reason I just don’t feel the same sort of

now. Where once they almost looked me in the eye I’m now able

No sympathy

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

Welcome! To your doom!

POW!

restrictive acid is launched with superb accuracy, covering the lead centipede across its back and down

the result too carefully I quickly line up

POW!

as it moves forward to assess the

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