Chrysalis

Boy was I glad to sense Tiny had managed to arrive on schedule! My biggest worry had been the big moron would get confused or lost somehow.

[You managed to find me ok big guy?]

[No]

[It was hard? What happened?!]

[Walls]

[You got stuck behind walls?]

[Yes]

[How did get through?]

[Punched 'em]

…..

I wonder how many walls the Queen is going to have to replace…

Thinking of the Queen I could only shake my head internally. Are humans in this world penalised on Cunning or something? From the moment I captured her she had demonstrated her dislike of monsters at almost every opportunity. To think that such a person would actually hold to an agreement with one? I hadn't believed it from the beginning!

I mean, the Queen can't be entirely blamed for being outwitted. How could she have known that I was not just an unusually intelligent monster but an actual human reborn? Of course I know about treasuries, betrayal and have the unfair advantage of being able to understand human mannerisms or tone. It was simplicity itself to have the colony tunnel under the castle and poke about until we located the sweet, sweet, wealth.

Being the noble and upstanding ant that I am, I wanted to uphold my end of the deal as much as possible, so I was went along and fought hard to restore the Queen to her throne. To be honest, it would have been pretty embarrassing had the Queen not actually turned on me at the end. At that point we had already connected the castle to several prepared Dungeon tunnels and emptied out her supply of cores!

Thankfully we managed to avoid that awkward scenario…

a separate tunnel we had prepared that hadn't been connected to the Dungeon itself so we are blessedly unobstructed by monsters as we run. I collapsed the entrance behind us so I doubt the humans will be able to locate us, they should be busy handling a flood of monsters right

Gweheheheh.

crime Anthony, you genius

tones

reached level 20, one skill

level for your current evolution, would you like

capacity for your

reached

defence has reached

has reached

has

......…

the bushy, bristling facial hair of the

Thanks to stealing the cores from all of the lamps I have maxed out my core at 100 mp! If I can take in a special core I'll

full of monster cores we swiped, the future is looking exceptionally bright! The skills I'll be able to train,

really hit the

can't sit still. Only by relocating somewhere out of her reach will we be able to avoid retaliation. Thankfully such a place isn't too far away! To the south of these lands the wild and untamed monster infested lands are vast! It'll be easy for our colony to get lost in there, giving us

access since the Queen isn't able to sustain herself on the surface. We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it. If everything goes according to

don't get ahead of yourself! For the moment you still need to focus on fleeing the country! You are the

want

better and more powerful you. There's an intoxicating quality to it. I must firm my will and resist. You can't evolve when

I continue to run through our emergency escape route as I chuckle gleefully to myself the entire way. There is a very real danger of me becoming conceited if I continue to celebrate my own

once more beneath the shady foliage of the forest. I breathe deep of the fresh forest air. Delicious! Freedom!

is the feeling of freedom, of liberty, of successful,

me as

the subtle nuances of this moment. You don't even realise that with that sack over shoulder you look like a

to make our way back to the ant hill. Seeing the large dirt structure, with its ever attentive

to uproot and move them

I make my way straight to the farm, leaving Tiny to rest after his long haul. He might have power but stamina seems to be slight weakness of the big guy. Crawling down into the farm I see a familiar sight. The workers have continued to build a living layer of armour around their beloved Queen, essentially burying