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!

Gandalf have to say about

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

happen if I used my forceful mana ball and made it out of

them into the air and then drop

make

crush my enemies into the

I even squash them in on themselves, squishing them into a tiny

like it! I like it a

I’ll pick this one!

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

to spend and I’m gonna make use of

thing is my +5 bonus to cunning for choosing Mind Ant. With my cunning already so high the cost of five cunning is extreme, much higher

changes

my reserve to do what I didn’t dare consider in my first evolution. I shall

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

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

finalising my new brain matter, resulting in an overall gain of +7 to my cunning. There isn’t 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 one side. The organs

for this evolution is building the magical

dismiss the thought. The cost is simply too high and there is lower hanging 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

a good

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

for my buck I reluctantly decide 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

Anthony is tanking up!

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

evolutionary energy has been spent I take a step back and

Name: Anthony

Level: 1 (core)