Chrysalis

Chapter 173

Tiny's bat face starts to exude more and more anxiety as I watch him intently.

[Tiny]

[....]

[Tiny!]

[...….. What?]

[Time to max out that core champ! Get over here]

….

With reluctance painted over every inch of his body, Tiny lumbers to his feet and then resentfully ambles his way towards me from where he had slumped himself against the wall as I worked.

Using an antenna I flick one core at his feet and then stare at him.

He stares back.

….

Slowly I reach down to pick up the core with my mandibles and something flashes within the apes eyes. Was it understanding? Wisdom? Or was it heart rending fear? I shall never know. What I do know is that Tiny reaches down and snatches up the core before I can grasp it in my jaws.

A moment later he shows me the empty palm in which the core had been held.

[Good boy].

He needs to make sure he eats all his food.

With flicks of my antenna I continue to roll him cores I've modified until I run out and have to craft a few more. Every now and again I make sure to check in on Vibrant as she undergoes evolution. I kind of expect to see flashing lights or a glow or something but evolution doesn't seem to work like that here. At least nothing is happening so far, the little worker is still lying flat, seemingly unconscious, without any physical changes taking place.

[Core Engineering has reached level 5]

Nice! Every little bit of help I can get makes a difference!

I continue grinding my way through the cores but I have to take frequent and longer breaks in order to maintain the effort. It won't be long until I can't continue anymore and will need to take a break to rest.

massively draining

cores Tiny finally raises his hand and pushes the last core back to me,

Finally!

I'll have to take a nap before trying to form

finish it tomorrow and then

this turn of events. Ungrateful!

see if there have been any

…

nothing. Maybe she's still fiddling around

with the options and scrolled through the lists of options which are certainly extremely wide. I guess this could be taken as confirmation that Vibrant is

Tiny will possibly

about my lovable apes' dim

…

MANAMANA!

I'm up!

I flash into action, immediately moving to check on Vibrant. Antennae wiggling this way and that I eagerly check to see if there have

…

Nothing?

ground, still perfectly still for possibly the first time in her life, Vibrant continues to appear to be

she wakes

shuffle over to my

the treasury of a kingdom to amass these cores. A small kingdom without a

going to take us a long

then this pile of cores

enough day dreaming, back

fuse

Get PUMPED!

lift at

…..

HRRRRRRRNNNGGGH!

shaking mentally I pick up the intensely sparkling and oversized core in my mandibles and carry it to the

[Get up you slug!]

him repeatedly but to no effect. He doesn't want to get up.

to lay this cunning plan… unfortunately I don't think it will have the result he was hoping for. Does he really think I'm just going to give up and walk away after

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