Chrysalis

Chapter 1222

[Anthony,] Granin greets me shortly with a perfunctory nod.

Corun and Torrina are a little more excited, the former giving me a broad smile and the latter a more reserved wave.

[Well if it isn’t the rock trio. What’s been happening in your lives?]

[Trying to avoid mana sickness,] Granin says, [and this isn’t helping much.]

The big golgari is a massive unit, almost tall enough to look me in the eye, even now, his granite coating shifting and folding as if it were truly his skin. I’m still not used to being bigger than him, to be honest. I’ve outmassed him since I met him, but being able to see the top of his head without climbing a wall is a new experience.

[How does it feel to be a midget?] I tease him, prodding his shoulder with an antennae. [Beside a mighty and enormous monster such as myself, you barely register on the scale.]

Granin, shockingly, actually laughs.

[You think you’re a big monster? Compared to what I’ve seen, you’re like a speck. Don’t get too big for your carapace, you’ll be dead before you can blink.]

[So… I’m immortal?]

[You know what I mean!]

Aaaand the grouchy is back. That didn’t take long.

[Look, I’m sorry, I didn’t bring you down here just to be annoying. I wanted to consult you about my pets and ask if you’d had any ideas about my progression. I’m ready for another round of mutations, got some Skill points to spend, so I thought I’d check in.]

a hand over

to the higher mana levels so we can come down to the fourth

[Many of your human soldiers and priests

[People who were born this deep are better

hand to dismiss

it won’t come to that. The people won’t abandon their holdings down here, they’d rather drag the entire stratum

you guys even have

holds up his

huh? That’s weird. Do you have them underneath the

three of them look

It’s like asking a human what they have under their clothes,] Torrina

clothes or a rocky exterior layer. You can cut me some slack. Now, let’s get down to business. You guys said you had some good ideas

nods and Corun reaches into the satchel he’s got strapped around his hip, pulling out what appears to be a

bring out the documents!] she hisses, mentally,

I worked hard

to run away! Don’t show

Granin coughs.

don’t need to go over any of that, it was for our benefit.

isn’t like… a

my legs creeping towards

reply with a

to trust

It’s a powerful ability which the System is clearly ready to capitalise on, given some of the options you’ve talked about. So we want to create a set of mutations and organs that will play to the strengths

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