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]

...

going to take a

like a dog gnawing on

NOM NOM

...

chipping away at it was loosening up the Biomass a little. If

have too much

refreshing my mind somewhat. I still need a sleep desperately but

Queens chamber, ants are desperately running about,

is she shows

growing in the Queens chamber and the workers are wandering back and forth with no real idea on how to proceed if the Queen won’t

up and pushes through

she asks, the

I try to

the dirt with my antennae. I’m relying on my Excavation skill to guide

kilometres to the...

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

wall that feels the most promising to my tingling instincts and start digging. I want to pitch the tunnel upwards about twenty degrees, by the time we reach the surface we should

a section of tunnel and dig around it, we cannot risk exposing our escape route to

the colony glow brightly directly in my face. Towards these curling lines of light, to which I once felt such fascination I now

vanish on the soil that is no longer connected to the wall, as if it were part of a circuit that had been

majesty!" I turn and say to

use my antennae to indicate

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

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

mana veins. When the wave

If I get a chance I have to make sure

shocked to see the