Chrysalis

I’m quite pleased with the display of Mana Force. With a blast like that I might be able to some serious damage! With a few more levels I might be able to reduce the amount of time required to prepare such an attack to the point it becomes usable in combat.

With my mental energy largely exhausted I decide to take one more nap before diving back into productive society. The shut-in lifestyle isn’t for me and no self-respecting ant could possibly be happy living that way.

We are workers! We need to work, for the glory of the colony! And in order to level up so I can evolve!

Maybe my motives are not as pure as my fellow workers but my results will be miles better. Let us see how an ant colony can prosper with a human intellect helping them out.

Tiny is starting to look a little disgruntled. His tiny bat-like face is a bit sad around the edges and he keeps looking around for something, getting and more and more dejected when his search comes up empty.

Getting hungry are you little guy?

One more sleep and then we’ll be go out hunting ok?

As I settle down to nap Tiny reluctantly joins me, settling against my back as we snooze.

OK!

I shake myself awake abruptly, causing Tiny to jump awake with a small shriek and look around wildly.

Nice energy little fella, we’ve got a big day in front of us now!

The cosy confines of our own room surround us, the bustle of the colony largely outside our awareness here, we can rest peacefully. The soft dirt walls show the scratch or bite mark from when the workers carved out this chamber. I’m still not entirely sure why it was dug at all, considering the fact that the workers very rarely come in here.

I’m not too fussed though, since it works out to my advantage.

Blinking his eyes sleepily, Tiny climbs up onto my carapace and I rocket out of the room and into the tunnel. Workers are frantically running here and there as always and when I visit the brood chamber I see a large squad of workers fussing over the new eggs, ensuring they are kept clean and at the optimal temperature at all times.

The colony is going to need a heck of lot of food pretty darn soon in order to raise up this massive generation and I intend to make it happen.

colony becomes, the safer and more secure

my own fair share of experience and Biomass whilst I’m

to get

tunnel, frequently bumping other workers out of my way. I’m coming through guys,

the ant hill in the forest I start to notice a change in the walls of the tunnel. The glowing threads I recall from my time

lines ... growing down the

they weren’t hear just a few

find it vaguely unsettling to think of these strange, branching vines of glowing light as a growing,

What are they?

future. All

concerns I focus once again on

open space of the forest feels good. It’s nice

Moly it

Significantly brighter than before...

have

for a scout to return with

of confidence I dash down the hill and under the cover of the trees and towering mushrooms, the multi coloured

seems to be more dense than a few days ago, as if feeding on the growing intensity of the illumination in

to have to have come alive with activity, like a rainforest after a storm. The sounds of monsters surround me, growls, roars and the ripping,

space has become packed

into each other there is only one thing that will occur, a fight! Currently the area around me is filled with such combat, the strong consuming the weak, growing even more powerful from the experience and Biomass they harvested

don’t know why this area has become so populated all of a sudden. Perhaps this is linked to the intensity of the light in the

monsters is suitable for my purposes, if there is experience and Biomass to be gained then the colony and I will get our slice

a tree, hoping to spy an opportunity from the upper branches. Hauling myself towards the top I peer through the foliage at the area around me, making full use of my eyesight to

can see a few a mounds or hills that are likely to contain nests but they aren’t exactly what I was hoping to

over this side

larger tree bursts out of the canopy, standing taller and prouder than those around it. The large branches extend in a wide diameter, providing a tremendous amount of space and shelter within the embrace