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 stop them moving

more quickly than before, in only a matter of seconds the powerful energy erupts from me, encompassing the church building. Thankfully I had enough presence of mind to dial back the strength of

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 themselves without the capacity

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

ways

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

down a little. It isn’t easy to communicate "don’t move or I’ll turn it back on again!" with an ant stare but I do my

isn’t some religious experience but the enemy of their kind, monsters from the Dungeon, emerging when they least expected it in possibly the

me. It

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

little more about this situation before I decide to bring the colony up to the surface or

the large double doors at the rear of the church I hesitate a moment

the alien sky dyed with intense reds and pinks. Lovely. Not much scenery to

look at the surroundings. The church appears to be situated on a hill, a cobbled path leading directly up to the doors. Spread before me looks to be a sleepy town, smoke curling from chimneys that poke proudly out of slatted roofs. In the distance I

my tunnel map quickly I estimate the previous Dungeon entrance I had located seems like

have been

a fire in that city? Against the darkening skies I’m fairly sure a plume of black smoke is rising from somewhere inside the walls. Some sort of situation happening over there?

turning back to eyeball the congregation again I scurry around the side of the church and take a peek around the corner. The church doesn’t seem to be as large as I

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

the sort of place a colony could go

able to salvage

of a much different sort to the

hit him pretty bad. Poor guy. I can’t help but feel