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…

blessedly unobstructed by monsters as we

Gweheheheh.

perfect crime Anthony, you genius

all? The sweet, gravelly tones of Gandalf

reached level 20, one

max level for your current evolution, would you like

reached capacity for your

chomp has reached

defence has reached

has reached level

Bite has reached level

......…

bristling facial hair of the bearded one! SO

have maxed out my core at 100 mp! If I can take in a special core I'll be

is looking exceptionally bright! The skills I'll be able to train, the special evolutions I'll be

the

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

We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it. If everything goes

Anthony, don't get ahead of yourself! For the moment you still need to focus on fleeing

I want to

sleep and wake up as a better and more powerful you. There's an intoxicating quality to it.

I continue to run through our emergency escape route as I chuckle gleefully to myself the entire way. There is

out of the tunnel we find ourselves once more beneath the shady foliage of the forest. I

the feeling of freedom, of liberty, of successful, guilt free

me as if I'm completely

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

the large dirt structure, with its ever attentive guards, warms my heart. Home with the

uproot and move them

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