Chrysalis

So caught up in the strange energy of the moment it takes a moment before I even realise what it is I’ve done.

Uh.... Whoops?

I mean, he hit me on the head with his stupid mace! What exactly did he think was going to happen?! I’ve been living a violent life in the Dungeon, some things are just becoming instinct you know? If you whack me on the head with your stupid mace then you can’t really blame me for retaliating right? It’s self-defence!

The priest seems to also take a moment to process these events. He looks down at his now severed limb before a new expression gradually takes over his face. He falls backwards clutching at his arm and screams loudly in horror!

This triggers the stunned crowd, who had been locked in place with shock to erupt with fear, people climbing over each other as they attempt to run for the door!

Oh boy...

This is not what I intended! Why the hell did we have to dig up into a freakin’ human building anyway?!

Did they think the Dungeon had delivered some free xp to them as offering or something? You expected me to just stand there and get killed?! Even if I were to let you bash my head in with that ornate mace for half an hour it wouldn’t have been able to damage my diamond carapace in the first place! All I’d get is a headache!

Since it has come to this I have to try and limit the damage, my plan was to have the colony hide somewhere on the surface so we could ride out the worst of the wave in relative safety. If we manage to draw a human army down on our heads then we may as well go back down into the Dungeon and try our luck! If these humans run away and bring back soldiers we’ll be in a real pickle!

Think Anthony! You have to fix this!

Out of desperation I do the only think I can think of to stop the people from running away.

I channel my gravitational magic and form the gravity domain.

would

matter of seconds the

erupts the humans find themselves unable to keep their feet, the younger children immediately fall to the floor, completely unable to resist the force pulling them down. The adults are better able to cope but even they find

before his disbelieving face, he doesn’t even seem to

some ways I’m

In those few seconds the frantic escape of the congregation has been halted, almost everyone has been forced to the floor,

little. It isn’t easy to communicate "don’t move or I’ll turn it back on

as they have now realised that this isn’t some religious experience but the enemy of their kind, monsters from the Dungeon, emerging when they least expected it in possibly the last

is quite a blow to me. It wasn’t that long ago I was a human myself! I’m not that scary

A giant ant that can apparently control the force of gravity would be pretty damn scary when

are. I need to know a little more about this situation before I decide to bring the colony up to the surface

down the aisle towards the large double doors at the rear of the church I hesitate a moment before pushing them open with my mandibles and taking in the surface of this world

brilliant sunset is the first thing that meets my eyes, the alien sky dyed with intense reds and pinks. Lovely. Not much scenery to appreciate in the tunnel after

doors. Spread before me looks to be a sleepy town, smoke curling from chimneys that poke proudly out of slatted roofs. In the

quickly I estimate the previous Dungeon entrance I had located seems like it would be smack bang in the middle

have been worse,

carefully I think there is a fire in that city? Against the darkening skies I’m fairly sure a plume of black smoke is rising from somewhere inside

of the church and take a peek around the corner. The church doesn’t seem to be as large

on the hill overlooking the more simple homes of the people, many of whom possibly work farming the surrounding fields. On the rear side of the church, down the hill and over a few open paddocks a lush wood is spread, thick foliage creating a beckoning darkness across the

the sort of place a colony could go

be able to salvage this

to offer prayers of a much different sort to the statue, hoping for salvation and survival rather than whatever the heck they had thought was

shock has hit him pretty bad. Poor guy. I can’t help but feel a twinge