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]

...

is going to

like a dog

NOM NOM

...

twenty minutes of chewing I’ve 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

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

quickly hustle back into the nest and make my way down to the Queens chamber, ants are desperately running about,

she shows no interest

pile of Biomass is growing in the Queens chamber and the workers are wandering back and forth with no real idea on how to proceed if the Queen

bustle into the chamber the Queen perks up and

dig?" she asks, the concern

I

the slowly dimming walls of 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

two kilometres to the... let’s say west. That isn’t far enough away to be

the 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 to dig not just up, but further

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 the entrance

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

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

no longer connected to the wall, as if it were part

dig our tunnel here, your majesty!"

to indicate the angle we

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

in which we had battled the berserkers. If more monsters like

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

we hadn’t been forewarned we would surely be wiped out! If I get a chance I have to make sure I pay

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