Chrysalis

Gathering the large python core, I’m sure it was from the python, judging by the tail section I found it next to, I bring it to the rest of my hoard which I transport into the colony, burying them with my Death Rabbit core that I had saved in the first trap network.

This is the most precious harvest of this battle. I have great plans for this resources! I have to work quickly though.

Before I can begin that work I make one final trip back to the field, to gather some Biomass for myself and to collect my now fairly spherical ape. Are you made of rubber you stupid gorilla!? How do you fit so much damn food in your stomach?

Tiny appears happy to simply lie on his back, rolling about gently in contentment, his distended belly proudly displayed to the forest canopy.

Really classy Tiny, you really are living your best life.

By this time the industrious workers have done a fairly good job of picking clean the field, but I’m not too worried. I head back to the condensed gobstopper of Biomass forged by my Gravity Bomb.

Standing over it I have to say it doesn’t look that impressive, a small ball that doesn’t really look like meat or food of any kind. The ball is a kind of orange colour, streaked through with different layers and the occasional splash of other colours. Looking closely, it reminds me a little of the planet Jupiter from images I’d seen in textbooks.

Tentatively I try again to lift it, no success. Most of the Biomass of two giant monsters is packed into this little ball! There must be easily over a ton of material in there, it isn’t surprising I can’t lift it.

I’ll have to eat as much as I can here and now then!

Once again I crouch down and start gnawing the hell out of the thing.

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM.

Yield to me you damn sphere!

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM.

[You have gained one Biomass]

...

to take

like a dog gnawing on a

NOM NOM

...

managed to gain six more Biomass. The rate at which I was able to extract the food was slowly starting to increase towards the end, apparently chipping away at it was loosening up the Biomass a little. If I had more time I’d be

just have too much to

close over my smaller wounds and refreshing my mind somewhat. I

Queens chamber, ants are desperately running about, passing food around, feeding the larvae and

only problem is she shows no interest

A small pile of Biomass is growing in the Queens chamber and the workers are wandering back

the Queen perks up and pushes through the crowd

she asks,

to go!" I try to

to feel out the dirt with my antennae. I’m relying

that the entrance where I encountered the humans is roughly two kilometres to the... let’s

I found is in the middle of a thriving city or a cow paddock but since I know that there are humans there we need to surface a good distance away. That means we need to dig not just up, but further away

want to pitch the tunnel upwards about twenty degrees, by the time we reach

off a section of tunnel and dig around it, we cannot risk

the colony glow brightly directly

the dirt the lines fade and vanish on the soil that is no longer connected to the wall, as if it were part of a circuit that had been disconnected.

majesty!" I turn

to indicate

dirt in the tunnel leading down from this chamber, if we can block monsters

I take the clod of dirt in my mandibles and retreat to the lower tunnel in which we had battled the berserkers. If more monsters like them, or worse, were to attack during the wave we would be in

the mana veins. When the wave breaks, if Formo was correct then this entire tunnel

get a chance I have to make sure I pay

to the Queen’s chamber I’m shocked to see the Queen herself digging away at