Chrysalis

How deep does the Dungeon really go? It’s possible that only the Ancients truly know. Certainly no human, golgari, ka’armodo, brathian or any other old race has plumbed the greatest depths and returned.

Of course, it’s possible an empire or organisation has managed to find their way down and has kept it a secret for all these years, but this researcher doubts it.

Instead, we can apply ourselves to examining what information is public and making inferences from there.

To many who toil on the surface, living within the Dungeon is nothing but a legend, a myth or fairytale for children. Little do they know that many of the goods they create and crops they harvest find their way down into the depths, supporting cities and fortresses they do not believe exist.

Of course, the seats of power for almost all the great kingdoms and empires on Pangera are found in the fourth stratum. Filled with abundant life mana, this is a dangerous yet wondrous place to live.

Beyond is the fifth, and it’s unfortunate, but many records end there. A world of poison, decay and toxin, the fifth stratum is a hellscape, inimical to life. However, there are some who are prepared to admit that they have gone beyond this point and into the sixth.

Sometimes, I wonder if those of us in the fourth are similar to those on the surface. There could be a whole world beneath us that we refuse to believe exists, cut off by dangers that we believe insurmountable.

- Excerpt from ‘The Musings of Dai’

Just when I was hyping myself up to do some more mutating, I realise I don’t have the points to invest. What a let down! I was hoping to power up some key organs and look at pushing others to +35, see what sort of nonsense I can mutate with the more powerful options I can get at that level.

try to get some more food packed into my face. Good news is,

…

dare my precious meal-ticket run away in the middle of a fight?! A demon that size, that powerful? He must have been worth well over a thousand points by himself. If he’s

again, it might be better if I don’t run into him in the next little while. I’ve got a lot more work to do to finish powering

I commit them all and then immediately start flailing around as the Altar within me

knowing that I’m the only one suffering from this makes

WHY HAVE YOU CURSED ME IN

as I am, this is starting to get dangerous. Thankfully, structural integrity was maintained in the chamber.

Phew.

see if there’s anything I can rank up, then look at

which I do immediately. That’s not nothing. Considering the changes I made to the Altar, Gravity Magic is going

keep working on this as it's proven

or six now, which means they need a ton of levels before I can improve them again. Void Chomp is still a long way from the halfway point, needing almost a hundred levels

the first insect to produce an atomic explosion when I chomp my

getting to work…. I prod all of my mind-constructs and get them working on Gravity Magic. Half of them are tasked with constructing and taking apart the mana construct. I’ll have them practise it until I’m confident they can whip it together in thirty seconds or less. Having to wait for more of

other half start whipping together Gravity spells as fast as they can. Inverting them, condensing them, and testing in a variety of ways before