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Chrysalis - Chapter 507




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Ohhhhh boy . It's the Squad! The Team! The Gals! The Sisterhood! The Family! The Colony is coming to get me! I feel giddy, it's almost like I'm being broken out of prison . Wait, that's exactly what's happening . Need to stay cool . No need to let people know what's happening . As far as they're concerned, business as usual . Which means, training, eating, mutating and getting ready to fight the next battle . I'll need to try and meet Jim soon and see if he's ready to progress with his escape strategy . Should probably check in with Sarah to see if she wants to come with us . I sort of doubt it, considering how reluctant she was last time we spoke .





In my mind the ideal scenario is till that I escape and make my way out to re-join the Colony . If those crazy ants bust into this place… it'll get real messy real quick . And not just for the Shapers . I can't imagine an invasion by thousands of ant monsters would be swept under the rug . Once the word got out the Goglari would pull together an extermination force . Hundreds, maybe thousands of those damn Warriors, with Shaper support and who knows what other tricks they've got stashed away under the rug . It would be a disaster, one that I'm keen to avoid .

Gotta get busy . Not wanting to waste time, I throw my brains into training even as I chomp down on the Biomass in front of me . Torrina raises an eyebrow at me .

[So keen to train today, Anthony? I can feel you working your mana . ]

[Things are only going to get tougher from this point on . Can't afford to stuff around . Gotta train, then mutate . ]

[Alright . Granin will be happy to hear it . Give me a second and I'll help you . ]





[Sure . Any chance I'll be able to get another meeting with Jim and Sarah? I'd like to have a word with them soon if it's at all possible . ]

[I'll talk to Granin . He's the one who can make it happen . ]

[Thanks, I appreciate it . ]

After stretching her mental muscles for a few minutes, Torrina is ready to start sending magic my way and I fall back into the familiar patterns . Weave my Spells together whilst tearing hers apart . Stretch the minds, push to the edge . After the first hour my training partner seems to notice something is different .

[Are you in good shape today, Anthony? You seem to be holding up better than usual . ]




[I'm good to go for ages yet . I'm not even tired!]

[… that's what I mean . ]

Oh . Of course, the Vestibule! The sweet healing energies of the Colony are flooding through my system, soothing my pains and taking away my fatigue . Once again that boundless energy is flooding into me . In fact, way more energy than I'm used to . How many ants are coming here right now?! I know that they've been hatching more than before, but what the heck? How many members does the Colony even have right now? Two thousand? THREE thousand?! Yikes . That's gonna be a lot of mouths to feed . I hope the council is managing to raise them all properly . I don't want them cutting corners and not giving each ant the chance to achieve their potential!


Speaking of which . I wonder if any ants have reached tier four . That'll be cool to see . And Crinis! Sweet Crinis the ever faithful, over-zealous pet . She must have evolved by now, surely . What sort of cuddly eldritch horrors await, I can't wait to see!





After a few more hours of training, Torrina excuses herself to go find Granin and pass on my requests . This gives me time to brush myself into tip top shape for the upcoming escape . I'll need to arrange something with Corun for Tiny as well . Take him out for another hunting trip perhaps? Then I can meet up with him outside the facility . That could work .

Alright, time to get down to mutating .

After chowing down on all of my foe I've got three hundred and nine Biomass to play with, which is enough to get some serious work done . After the last fight, where my enhanced reflexes and rapid response musculature played such a key role, alongside my antennae of course . I think I want to focus on pushing these body parts closer to perfection .

The nerves and muscles are both at +15 at this point, and it'll cost me one hundred and eighty Biomass to push both to +20 . Which will leave me just enough to push my antennae up to +25 . Nice!

Let's hit those menus!

After confirming my intentions with the System I hit up the menu for my nerves and admire the plethora of options . The endless creativity of the options never ceases to amaze me . I mean, it's nerves! What the heck can you do with nerves?! Make them faster, right? But oh no, there's so much more . Broader nerve paths to allow more signal load, vastly increasing the number of sensory nerves in the extremities, regenerating nerves that reconnect themselves when damaged, memory nerve packets to pre-package muscle memories, muscle fibres along the nerve paths so that they can move . What the heck is that?! You can transition the nervous System to a liquid state, turn it into metal, whatever you want basically . It's crazy .

The memory packets are tempting, but I wouldn't know what sort of thing to chunk into that memory . Also I'd be worried about performing actions without actually intending to . I don't want to be involuntarily chomping things . Instead, MOAR speed is what we want . Thus the Transmission sub-neural network +15 shall become the Instant Transmission sub-neural network +20 . Capable of truly hair raising speed!

Onto the musculature . My efforts so far have been to enhance the ability of my muscles to make rapid motions . An explosive release of power, rather than a sustained one . This means I can move faster and snap my mandibles quicker, which is all great . It means I haven't been able to increase my staying power . The mutation wouldn't help in a wrestle, or any extending chomping . It's all in the initial bite! Combined with my neural network, it's allowed me to make very quick responses and that's kept me alive more than once . This is the sort of synergy that Granin was talking about . Each mutation working together to create something better than the sum of its parts . No need to change gears now!

Ignoring the many tasty side options, I hone in on perfecting the response time of my muscles and thus my Blink Musculature +15 will become Hyper Twitch Musculature +20 .

Now for the antennae .



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