Chrysalis

Before Crinis can dive headlong into the enemy and give herself a terminal case of toxic mana poisoning, I rush back to the safe-zone, alerting the ants as I go.

“We’ve got an attack! Weird… things coming out of the river!”

Once I’m close enough, I use my antennae to try and scrape Crinis off my carapace and fling her into the purified mana, but she clings onto me, refusing to go. More accurately, she lets her body become shadow, and my antennae just slide straight through her. Heck of a trick.

[Crinis, get into the safe-zone, that’s an order.]

[I want to help fight!]

[Sure, do it from inside there. Go! Shoo!]

Unable to resist a direct order, she has no choice but to accede to my demand and slink back inside the blue mana. Invidia is already there, hovering over the blob of darkness, healing and cleansing her of the infection she’s accumulated.

Seriously, eating the things that live here is dangerous business. If we could work out a way to clean the Biomass so we could consume it safely, that would go a long way to helping us break through the stratum.

Considering there’s literal tons of inedible monster coming towards me right now, it’s a bit unfortunate we haven’t worked out that solution yet. Ah well, no time to worry about it now, I’ve got weird… slime things to destroy!

the monsters and the Colony. The only problem with that strategy is the fact the river runs all the way down

is interesting to see. We know that they hate and try to destroy it, but actually being inside it? Let’s just say it doesn’t

the gun when I got too close to

of the monsters in there! I’ll

is not meant to

With a

you beat them! They seem to be able to

lot of punishment

wrapped up by half a dozen

limbs. The muck of the river sloughs off them as they move, leaving a trail behind that will have to be cleaned up later. Ugh, these things are awful. This might get a little messy, but

propel themselves forward. Every now and again, I catch a glimpse of their gnashing maws, right

wrong, aren’t they? If she’d been like this the first time

see how they deal

to shoot limbs toward me, trying to latch on and poison me further. Using

VOID CHOMP!