Chrysalis

So which magical energy type to choose?

Death sounds awesome, an unstoppable tide of undead ants would be cool but my own family would need to be killed first! Plus there may be a chance I’ll end up zombified like the death rabbit! No thanks!

Time? I mean, time would be amazing but how the heck would it work? Stopping time? Speeding up time? Travelling through time?!?! Maybe too complicated.

Entropy? Perhaps a bit too grim and macabre.

I want something I can use in a fight but also something that has some utility to it, something I can make use of outside of combat in a significant way.

I will always choose the all-around option!

No weak points is my motto!

Perhaps it is wasteful to think this way but I just don’t like the idea of something that has only one purpose. I want options dammit!

Illusion? Too artsy. I was always terrible at mental imagery and drawing.

Space? Could be amazing but I’m not certain it’ll be fighty enough.

Healing is tempting but won’t help me out much when I’m on my own.

Chaos? Sounds a little.... Unpredictable?

Mental would almost certain allow telepathy of some kind... I’m not quite as starved for conversation now that I have the pheromone language though... There is always a chance I’ll be able to gain this ability another way without spending this precious selection on it. I’ll pass on this for now.

Maybe.... Maybe this one?

Gravity.

I feel like it has potential!

have to say about

allows for the creation and exertion of push and pull forces beyond

out of gravitational energy? Would

them into the air and

I make

my enemies

them into a tiny

it! I like it a

I’ll pick this one!

with that selection out of the way I need to decide what to do with the remainder of my

cash to spend and I’m gonna make use

Mind Ant. With my cunning already so high the cost of five cunning is extreme, much higher than spending on might. Just by my

more muscle, bone and sinew whereas making changes to cunning involves creating

to use my bonus and some of my reserve to do what I didn’t dare consider in my first

would be a rather complicated matter I don’t doubt, but thankfully it is relatively simple for me. The evolution menu assists and guides my thoughts as I try to shape what I want. A small, additional brain to help bare the mental load of shifting and shaping mana. Practicing my mana skills been so mentally demanding that the rate of progress is too slow. In addition, practicing these skills leaves me so tired that I can’t reasonably be levelling these skills and doing something else at the same time. To raise my skills all the way I’d have to become a recluse in the colony, letting the rest of

to reduce the strain and be able to practice my magic skills whilst also

my new brain matter, resulting in an overall gain of +7 to my cunning. There isn’t any point investing in this brain if it isn’t able to perform its job properly so I gave a significant amount of

staggering! For a moment my heart twinges with regret but I push it to one side. The organs are in the menu so there is still a chance I’ll be able to purchase

this evolution is building the

fruit to pick. I turn my attention instead to the Will stat. This one is also costly but I feel that boosting the strength of my thoughts and my mental defences will only serve

I spend a good chunk of energy on

left to spend

to emphasise size over density, going for a 3 to 1 ratio. This will make me significantly larger than before but gives a higher raw stat boost. For toughness I make the split roughly

Anthony is tanking up!

the forest and hopefully with these upgrades I’ll be physically capable of holding my

last drop of evolutionary energy has been spent I take a step back and

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)