Chrysalis

HOOPAH!

I snap to alertness hours later, ready for action. Vibrant and Crinis are still slumbering whilst riding on my back, the little ant using the ball like JellyMaw as a pillow.

Before resting be had dug into the wall to create a resting chamber. I’d estimated how far the veins of light would be able to travel whilst we rested and made sure we had a bit of buffer. I didn’t want dumb plant monsters spawning on our heads while re rested from eating dumb plant monsters. I wouldn’t have been able to take the irony.

I have a huge wealth of Biomass saved up at the moment, more than I’ve ever had before but I don’t want to spend it yet, I’ll pile up as much as I can before heading back to the surface. This is a long term pre evolution feast fest bonanza! There aint no brakes on this eating train!

While I’m at it I’ll pump my pets full of Biomass at the same time. Tiny will be ready to evolve soon so he need as much Biomass as I do, whereas Crinis just needs to keep on growing until she’s ready to fight.

Vibrant on the other hand is getting a prime opportunity to supercharge her growth, she’ll be swimming in Biomass points by the time we’re done down here, getting all of her organs to +5 should be a piece of cake!

The second part of our mission here is to create a path back to the surface, a staircase if you will. I don’t want to have to follow winding tunnels hither and thither every time I want to come down into the Dungeon. If the colony is going to settle here long term then a shortcut to the deeper Dungeon is absolutely in order. After I evolve I’ll have to go even deeper than this to get a decent amount of Biomass. At that time the shortcut will have to be extended downwards.

["Time to get up you slugs!"] I shout at my lazy crew.

As usual, Tiny requires a few extra pokes until he’s ready to get up. He waves me away, even reaching over with one massive hand to push me as he tries to cover his eyes.

Teenage rebellion?!

["There’ll be food..."]

The apes’ eyes snap open like lightning and he leaps to his feet, purposefully flexing his fingers, looking every inch alert and ready for action.

Damn ape! Have you no shame at all?!

Vibrant jumps into action quickly.

again today? Will there be dashing?!"

declare, I won’t

Vibrant cheers, even Crinis extends a few tentacles

about to engage in

Who cares!

Onwards!

destroy as an appetiser, feeding the last hits to Vibrant. Then we step out into the main tunnel once

Chaos!

Fighting!

haven’t even

we saw yesterday! Everything was surprisingly chill with the plants until we

the tunnel there are plant monsters doing ferocious battle with other

strange about their hides. They seem to glisten,

are engaged in a fight to the death with these pigs who tear at them with fierce tusks or charge them into the ground before ripping into their plant fibres with their

the size of its smaller pig brethren this specimen is obscenely muscular, almost grotesquely bulging with mass beneath

metallic properties to their skin... electricity ought to

thing over there. I’ll take care of the plants and small

presume he agrees with these instructions. Bearing his fangs he trundles forward, building up momentum gradually until he’s flying at full speed, the ground trembling beneath the impact

intensity like a storm. Finally he bursts through the crowd of plants cornering the massive boar and roars his challenge, smashing out with one mighty fist. Electrical energy flashes through

Holy moly!

hypothesis on the metallic skin being weak against Tiny rang true.

my cheering hangers’ on clinging to my back. I fire acid at the annoying ones and move quickly to snip apart the most dangerous plants. Any pigs I come across are ground into mince by the relentless application of my infused

evolve before it matches up

pig! Out of metal or diamond which do you

Muahahahaha!

his powerful lightning fists. Each time he connects a ringing boom bursts