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…

connected to the Dungeon itself so we are blessedly unobstructed by monsters as we run. I collapsed the entrance behind us

Gweheheheh.

crime Anthony, you

tones of Gandalf that are still

reached level 20,

reached max level for your current evolution, would you like

for

chomp has reached

Exo-skeleton defence has reached

has

has reached

......…

bristling facial hair

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

of monster cores we swiped, the future is looking exceptionally bright! The skills I'll

really hit the jackpot this

relocating somewhere out of her reach will we be able to avoid retaliation.

sure we have some form of Dungeon 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 plan then we will be able to build

yourself! For the moment you still need to focus on fleeing the country! You are

I want to evolve

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

and 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

of the forest. I breathe deep of the fresh

of liberty, of successful, guilt free

at me as

appreciate the subtle nuances of this moment. You don't even realise

make our way back to the ant hill. Seeing the large dirt structure, with its ever attentive guards, warms my heart. Home

to uproot and move them all

around the anthill 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