Chrysalis

I'm exhausted and my mandibles are aching something fierce after all that digging, but is it time to rest?

NOPE.

Those damn pupae are teasing me with their very existence. The twenty large casings are resting against the side of a chamber, taunting me with their stillness. Within them, the hope of ant kind is taking the final steps of their gestation, turning from a grub into something more, something incredible. The ant species to end all ant species.

At least that's what I'm hoping for. If they suck I'm going to be really disappointed…

It shouldn't happen though! I reinforce my own positive mindset. They are going to be great, I've put so much effort into creating them and into making sure they'll get a solid boost to start out their new lives, surely they'll be great!

The closer this project is getting to fruition the more stressed I'm getting.

Put it behind you Anthony, put all of it behind you!

Focus on yourself for a while, treat yourself. To what should I treat myself? To skill training, of course!

Not only me, Tiny and Crinis have been roped in as well.

Beyn and drawing on his knowledge, our knowledge of the system has greatly expanded and the weightiest nugget of wisdom to come

energy within my core, I was ignoring two aspects of the holy trinity

in balance, so it is in nature, so it is within the monster. When one tree is watered over much, it does not grow properly, drowning instead of thriving, and the other trees wither. Only when the life giving succour is evenly distributed

sheer shock and in the process lost his only remaining hand. At least now with

time has come to take part in that most

grind like there's

important thing to grind? Of course

frustrating thing that Beyn had enlightened me of. I'd thought I'd made use of an awesome hack in using my free magical affinity

doesn't give me access to what I really need to make use of it, which is the spell forms. I have the generic

before, he was sure it was a particularly advanced form of mana, which means

to it, I have to level up my basic affinities, which will unlock the next rank of affinities,

of affinity skills will unlock. That is my most immediate goal. Apparently the exact types of mana that unlock are not necessarily

local mages aim

Rush to the top!

endlessly, mind numbingly. For me, that means forming and releasing the ice mana construct over and over again, casting water and

exhausted as we are, I don't want us diving into frenetic combat. Keeping to the upper tunnels and picking on some

like this, we grind,

eventually get a mortified Crinis to attempt to