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

...

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 able to get a whole lot more Biomass out of it but I can’t afford

too

smaller wounds and refreshing my mind somewhat. I still need a sleep

the Queens chamber, ants are

only problem is she shows

Biomass is growing in the Queens chamber and the workers are wandering back and forth with no real

I bustle into the chamber the Queen perks up and pushes through the

asks,

to go!" I try to reassure

the chamber and start to feel out the dirt with my antennae. I’m relying on my Excavation skill to guide my instincts and detect the best place to

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

since I know that there are humans there

and start digging. I want to pitch the tunnel upwards about twenty degrees, by the time we reach the surface we should be a long distance away from

tunnel then we’ll have to back up, close off a section of tunnel and dig around it, we cannot risk exposing our escape route to

here, to the heart of the colony glow brightly directly in my face. Towards these curling lines of light, to

longer connected to the wall, as if it were part of a circuit that had been disconnected. When the mana fades away, the dirt looks perfectly ordinary, as if there had been nothing different

tunnel here, your majesty!" I turn and

indicate the angle we should

in this direction we might be able to escape the worst of the wave. Get the workers to dump the dirt

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,

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

wiped out! If I get a

see the Queen herself digging away at the