Chrysalis

Chapter 174

I have to say I’m quite excited to finally be able to evolve again. I know I should wait and pile on the Biomass but I simply can’t contain my excitement.

So I’m weak! Sue me!

Everyone has to have a weakness and perhaps this is mine. Rather than shovelling my face full of monsters’ sticky insides, as delightful as that sounds, I would rather be taking a brief nap and then waking up a whole new being.

It involves the consumption of less guts, for one thing.

I can’t help but get excited for the possible options that may be present to me when I evolve. The mind ant species has been good to me, dramatically increasing my strength and propelling me further along the path of magic. As great as it’s been, I feel like I need one more push in order to achieve a proper mastery of magic. If I have an option that will further enhance my mind I’ll be hard pressed to turn it down.

Before any of that though, I have to form the special core.

LET’S DO THIS!

.....

GAWD ALMIGHTY!

MAH BRAIN!

[Core Engineering has reached level 6]

Worth!

After all of my effort I’m finally done! In front of me sits a new shiny special core, the announcement from Gandalf still ringing in my ears.

[Compatible special core detected ...]

Yasssss!

This mental torture is finally over! Despite being as mentally fatigued as I am I eagerly begin the absorption process immediately. Not even a microsecond passes before the truly uncomfortable squeezing feeling erupts in my guts.

NOPE!

I remember this feeling! It sucks!

slowly swelling with gas but there was nowhere for it to go, the tightness swells until it turns into

Yeeouch!

it wasn’t such a good idea to do this immediately after wearing myself down, grinding my own brain against the stone to produce these cores. But it’s too late to complain about it now, I’ll just have

mandibles Anthony, show what an ant you are! Do the workers

I try to do is look around the room

on the floor in the corner, still nothing going on there. Crinis is bobbling in

mental teeth still clenched

latches on with a few tentacles, swiftly making her own may onto my back where she wibbles a bit a settles into a seemingly

close you are to reaching fully grown?] I

[.....] nothing.

least talkative of

would be really grateful if you would talk to me a

don’t know master] she

I was lugging Tiny around for ages before he was able to be useful.

be long and you’ll be back to shredding monsters,

her mature form ripping monsters apart and

hope so

now. It’s nice to hear you talking a bit little one. You don’t

[...]

work on it in future. I’ll be evolving soon Crinis, so don’t worry if there isn’t any movement for a bit or I don’t respond when you try to talk to

be evolving master?] the little blob

to it. Everyone else is evolving at the moment, Tiny and Vibrant have

she sounds

we’ll get you in the Dungeon and once you’re grown, getting you to evolve

she replies,

this sensitive?!

DAMN IT HURTS!

....

and my time has come! The season of

this evolution. The Mind Ant was the first steps on a brand new path of evolution and the next step will only be more potent, I can

anymore! Feels like my core is

then Crinis, I’m

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