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.]

hand over

come down to the fourth more or less permanently, but it’s been a struggle. This wave has produced the highest intensity of mana I’ve seen in my entire lifetime, and

painful,] Torrina says, matter of factly. [Many of your human soldiers and

person can tolerate,] Corun chips in brightly. [People who were born this deep are better off, but if the waves keep increasing their intensity, we may reach a point in a few years where it’ll be impossible for non-monsters to live in the

his hand to dismiss those

people won’t abandon their

you guys even have

up

That’s weird. Do you

three of them

like asking a human what they have under their

me some slack. Now, let’s get down to business. You guys said you had some good ideas for

reaches into the satchel he’s got strapped around his hip, pulling out what appears to be a thick ream of paper. Before I can run away, Torrina slaps his

she

I worked hard on that,]

away! Don’t

Granin coughs.

any of that, it was for our benefit.

isn’t like… a rehearsed presentation, is

feel my legs creeping

reply with a strangely rehearsed air

to trust them… for

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 of your gravity mana, whilst

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