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 take

a dog gnawing on

NOM NOM

...

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

too much to

my mind somewhat.

eaten I quickly hustle back into the nest and make my way down to the Queens chamber, ants are desperately running about, passing food around, feeding

problem is she shows no interest in

subtly see that the workers are distressed by this. A small pile of Biomass is growing in the Queens chamber and the

up and pushes through the crowd of workers

to dig?" she asks, the

I try to reassure

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

that the entrance where I encountered the humans is roughly two kilometres to the... let’s say west. That isn’t far enough away to be certain we are clear

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

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 I

run into an already established tunnel then we’ll have to back up, close off a

penetrated all the way here, to the heart of the colony glow brightly directly in my face. Towards these

the soil that is no longer connected to the wall, as if it were part of a circuit that had been disconnected. When the mana fades

your majesty!" I

indicate the angle we

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 deeper down that would be

said my piece 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

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

I get a chance I have to make sure I

to see the Queen herself digging away at the