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!

strength 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

the good luck I had to reinforce it to the

I max my core out before

Ha!

self yet and I’m

Out of the chamber!

I did myself out of my seemingly much smaller chamber and out into the forest

I’m significantly larger now, probably twice as tall? Maybe the same for length? Which would

mackerel! If you’d seen an ant that size on Earth

little more edge in them, which should assist me in getting through enemy defences. I can also feel

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

Ho boy! So exciting!

spot, trying to get used to the feeling

I need to chill out a moment. Checking my status again I notice that my mana is empty so I join the monsters around the

was evolving. I’ll have to be extra careful since I don’t want to run

about half an hour to drink five times, taking it slowly and feeling out my

should I

core during an evolution, it’s even more

the first mission is to go collect my

to move around the Lake and

camp

with me absorbing all four of them and my max MP goes up

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

matter what, I have to get all of them before I evolve. The bonus is

step for me is

able to defeat them before without evolving

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 with an increase in

once now. I was able to do three, four with a bit of trouble. Five was

Let’s try four...

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

while before a group of four heads out into the

I don’t miss the opportunity and immediately

legs and more powerful frame. I’m able to overtake

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

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

sympathy

don’t waste any time and place myself directly in

Welcome! To your doom!

POW!

accuracy, covering the

too carefully I quickly

POW!

The second centipede is directly struck as it moves forward to

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