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

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

used my forceful mana ball and made it out of

I lift them into the air and then

make myself

I crush my enemies

into a tiny little

I like it a

I’ll pick this one!

out of the way I need to decide what to

to spend and I’m gonna make use of

cunning for choosing Mind Ant. With my cunning already so high the cost of five cunning is extreme, much higher than spending on might. Just by my feeling I estimate that +5 cunning would

might stat is effectively just adding more muscle, bone and sinew whereas making changes to cunning involves creating and connecting millions of neurons to form

reserve to do what I didn’t

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

brain I’ll be able to reduce the strain and be able to practice my magic skills whilst also being out hunting

any point investing in this brain

at the aura organs and their cost in energy is simply staggering! For a moment my heart twinges with regret but I push it to

for this evolution

is simply too high and there is lower hanging fruit to pick. I turn my attention instead to the Will stat.

spend a good chunk of energy on my Will, raising it by

of my evolutionary energy is left to spend and I apportion it evenly to might

before

Anthony is tanking up!

fight reasonably well against most creatures in the forest and hopefully with these upgrades I’ll be physically capable of holding my own against most monsters before my magical abilities can level

I take a step back and have a look

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)