Chrysalis

With the heavy hitter taken out of the equation there isn't much left to the fight. Crinis and I quickly destroy the Titan Crocs and rush back to help support Tiny and Vibrant.

The giant ape and ant soldier are beaten and bruised but victorious as they lord over their fallen enemies. Tiny is beating his chest and roaring his challenge out to the world whilst Vibrant does a manic, high speed dance around his ankles.

[RAAAAARR] Tiny bellows.

"RAA HAHAHAHAHA!" Vibrant cackles.

…..

I was right to team these two up. They fit together like peas in a pod. The only problem is, who is the brains of the operation?

In the distance there are yet more crocs, huddling together in small posse's like leathery hoodlums. For the time being they aren't responding to our provocation but I'd rather not put their tolerance to the test.

For now there aren't any groups within two hundred metres, which is roughly how far we've advanced into the expanse.

["OK, hold off on the celebration already you two"] I snap, ["We've won the first skirmish but there are more to be had. Let's eat quickly and prepare our next move."]

I don't need to tell them twice. The gang quickly breaks up and we start stuffing our faces full whilst keeping a watchful eye on the surrounding monsters. I myself head directly for the Double Crocs. It's been some time since I've been able to eat a tier three monster of this size and I don't intent to let the opportunity go to waste!

OM NOM NOM.

Now that I think of it, the double croc evolutionary choices are really making sense to me. Double the

manage to reap a nice harvest of Biomass from the first croc but as I'm moving towards the second, Crinis cries out

can feel vibrations coming this way, lots

Oh snap!

back to the

food into his mouth until his cheeks are puffed out to

at him even as I activate my dash skills to rush at Crinis and throw

HEAVY!

that maw of hers she can eat ten times faster than the rest of us, she's so damned heavy

part with his meal he grabs the body of the double croc he

very least I might have

would be if we were caught out in the open. The monsters in a wave are low level, without many mutations and generally tier one with a few having evolved, generally not much

It could get nasty.

and effectively blocking it, preventing any monsters from reaching my

Crinis and move up

positions and it isn't long until I can see the wave of monsters approaching through the tunnel

on the native monsters in the expanse as they pass, leaving them undisturbed for the most part.

just so un monster like that its baffling to me. What hold does the creature controlling this expanse have on these monsters? Is it a skill? A mutation? Or something to do with their core?

Hopefully soon, I will.

Tiny finally stops snaking on his croc and flings the remaining food behind us, saving it

on my water transformation construct to stockpile some condensed water mana in preparation for a forceful water cannon. That spell has proven to be