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!

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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