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

like a dog

NOM NOM

...

towards the end, apparently chipping away at it

have too much

food does a lot to reenergise me, helping to close over my smaller wounds and refreshing my mind somewhat. I still need a sleep desperately but it will have to

eaten I quickly hustle back into the nest and make my way down to the Queens chamber, ants are

problem is she shows no

Biomass is growing in the Queens chamber and the workers

perks up and pushes through the crowd

we ready to dig?" she asks, the concern

go!" I try to reassure

out the dirt with my antennae. I’m relying on my

I encountered the humans is roughly two kilometres

entrance 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

want to pitch the tunnel upwards

run into an already established 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

I dig the glowing blue veins that have penetrated all the way here, to the heart of the colony glow brightly directly in

it were part of a circuit that had been disconnected. When the mana fades away, the

dig our tunnel here, your majesty!" I turn and say to the

to indicate

be able to escape the worst of the wave. Get the workers to dump the dirt in the tunnel leading down from this chamber, if we can block monsters rising from

we had battled the berserkers. If more monsters like them, or worse, were

this long, spiralling tunnel has become filled with the mana veins. When the wave breaks, if Formo was correct

be wiped out! If I get a chance I have to make sure I pay the Sophos back for their

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