Chrysalis

With my new JellyMaw pet, little worker and Tiny in tow I head over to the farm. I've occasionally been letting the workers in to battle on their own, since I think every creature needs real combat experience rather than just raw Xp. So long as they attack in numbers the ants are able to quickly overwhelm their opposition, smashing the enemies and pulling them apart without any resistance. If they trickled in with smaller numbers it would be a hugely different story, the weaker individual ants would get pulverised, so I only let them in after piling up enough workers at the entrance.

As every day passes the colony is growing stronger. Everywhere I look there are more workers with mutation advancements of all sorts and when I flip on my mana sense there are the soft responses I get from low level cores all over the place.

Muahahaha! Our power grows! I believe I even spotted the first double evolved worker, a beefy looking ant with a larger head and powerful mandibles. This may be the first 'soldier' in the colony!

It's all looking good right now!

Tiny and I descend into the farm chamber and smack the heck out of everything in there until they are almost dead. Only then do I let my two burdens loose on their meal.

As the little worker excitedly leaps off to grab her experience I take a moment to have a word with her.

"I'm not sure if you can understand this much, but try to spend your Biomass on your pheromone gland, if you can get it to +5 you'll be able to take Pheromone language and talk to me and the Queen! Think about it."

She looks back at me for a long moment before jumping onto her first victim and starting to saw away with her mandibles. I use one of my antennae to reach onto my back and poke the JellyMaw there.

expanded out to grip my carapace to stop the little ball

take you to

into the air before heading over to a defenceless beast. I don't think the JellyMaw is able to fight at all yet so I finish off the monster with a single chomp of my mandibles before dropping

tennis ball the JellyMaw rests on the Biomass, feeling it out with its

sight of the main body somehow unfolding to reveal that dreadful maw filled with razor teeth! Only this time the entire process takes place

with gusto, taking in far more food than really seems physically possible until the main body has inflated from tennis ball

….. Gross, but impressive!

a few Biomass points, I'll need to think about what I want to prioritise my spending on soon. For now I gather my

and develop my own strength, and let Tiny exercise himself a little. The big guy is looking more depressed every day. If I don't let him fight

easy to fall into the rhythm of digging. My inner ant is being nourished by the act

my digging skills is a powerful

the monsters further down the Dungeon, preventing the humans from absorbing Xp and wasting Biomass, using the existing tunnel connections within the escape tunnel to push deeper into the Dungeon to get some juicy monsters to fight in order

tremendous growth in power that I'm still working to explore. Since each

ant can