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.

is massively draining

consuming more cores Tiny finally raises his hand and pushes the last core back to me, indicating that

Finally!

I'll have to take a nap

We'll finish it

nods happily, clearly pleased at this turn of events. Ungrateful! No appreciation for how hard I'm

wearily over to check on Vibrant and see if there

…

still fiddling around in the menus? I can't

the options and scrolled through the lists of options

Tiny will

dim witted ways I slowly drift into

…

MANAMANA!

I'm up!

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

…

Nothing?

for possibly the first time in her life,

else! If she wakes up the same size as before I'm going

to my

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

take

then this pile of cores could change the

dreaming, back to

to fuse these

Get PUMPED!

about to perform the gold medal lift at the Olympics. When

…..

HRRRRRRRNNNGGGH!

intensely sparkling and oversized core

[Get up you slug!]

to no effect. He doesn't want to get up. I suspect he knows what may be coming and is trying to avoid it as long as

was hoping for. Does he really think I'm

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