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.

we eating again today? Will there be

dashing!" I declare, I won’t miss a chance

cheers, even Crinis extends a few

a family vacation or about

Who cares!

Onwards!

spawned plant creatures which we destroy as an appetiser, feeding the last hits

Chaos!

Fighting!

haven’t even

to the scenes we saw yesterday! Everything was surprisingly chill with the plants until we started to rumble with them, but here are engaged in what looks

doing ferocious battle with other creatures that we hadn’t seen

appear to be like heavily muscled pigs or boars. On closer examination there is something strange about their

pigs who tear at them with fierce tusks

see a giant pig, the mega pig! Easily twice the size of its smaller pig brethren this specimen is obscenely muscular, almost grotesquely bulging

if these guys have metallic properties to their skin... electricity

there. I’ll take care

I can only presume he agrees with these instructions. Bearing his fangs he trundles forward, building up momentum gradually until he’s flying at full speed,

roars his challenge, smashing out with one mighty fist. Electrical energy flashes through that fist and lights up the piggy like a Christmas tree. The victim bellows in

Holy moly!

want to be caught in the middle of that... Still, it seems my hypothesis on the metallic skin being weak against Tiny

my cheering hangers’ on clinging to my back. I fire acid at the annoying ones and move quickly to snip apart the

admit but these particular pigs either haven’t mutated it or need to further evolve before it matches up to the Earth Bear Tyrant.

or diamond which

Muahahahaha!

to dominate the big pig, smashing it about with his powerful lightning fists. Each time he connects a ringing boom bursts out like a