Chrysalis

My first nap as a tier seven, a deep and satisfying torpor that I luxuriate in. Indeed, life is only complete when one gets their eight hours! I’ve been flat out for way too long, to the point I’ve started to worry that the Torpor Police might disappear me.

That would have caused quite a stir, I’ve no doubt.

They do an incredible job of hiding, those little ninjants, but ever since I picked up the Vestibule, it’s been impossible for them to conceal themselves from me.

Unlike my bodyguards. Whatever it is that they use to create the strange forgetful effect was powerful enough to give me trouble for a little while. Ever since my evolution, though….

I reach out with one leg and poke at the air.

….

I poke again.

….

Another poke, harder this time.

“... Is that really necessary, Eldest?” Protectant complains.

Gweheheheh.

“I just find it fun, how easily I can spot you now.”

The guard smells decidedly unhappy about it.

“We would like to know how you do it,” she grumbles, “out of professional courtesy.”

You’d just try and find a way

that there is one. As far as I can tell, as long as they’re ants who believe in me, they will provide me with Will. As long as the energy is flowing, they’ll be lit up like a christmas tree, regardless of what they do

see Protectant with

of stealth they’ve achieved is

is why it’s so fun to prod at

Please stop it,” Guardiant

Heheheheheh.

babysitters. “If I’m going to be rumbling with tier eight enemies, you’ll be flattened just

able to

her again, with both

to seriously bump up your stats and combat prowess. That concealment organ has soaked up way too

Just stop poking

I turn to

into you, pronto. Hunting in the fourth stratum is likely to be our best bet, but at the same time, we need to be on standby in case they need us in the third. There’s some funky business going down up there,

nod in unison. It’s

need a fair bit to get my mutations ticking along, but we should make sure to contribute to the Colony stockpile, since you three are

wipe that species from the Dungeon! As it turns out, we don’t even make our way out of the tunnels before someone finds us with an

I stop to let her catch up. “Eldest. They want to

let them get a foothold. I rumble down to the shoreline, my friends in tow, only to find the mercenaries from

leader, a

have my strength radiate out around me like this. Weaker enemies can’t even stand up to

together a mind bridge and latch onto the mercenary, then I bring his two followers into

again so soon,] I greet them. [Excellent, excellent. I suppose your

as the force of my mind impacts onto their own, and I make a

unloading the cargo in their boat, depositing a dozen

spitting them out at quite a rapid clip. We sailed two mountains west and tried our luck, ran into a nest

on this level of the Dungeon. New spawn points