“Dammit, Vibrant! Get back here!” Advant yelled, her scent filled with impotent rage.    “No chance!” laughed Vibrant as she raced away.    “We’re trying to make you stronger!” the exasperated  soldier tried to reason with the fast vanishing form of her fellow council member.    “I-can-do-that-myself-okay-so-I-don’t-need-your-help-bye!” Vibrant replied with rapid fire speed, her scent fading almost as fast as …

This talk of ‘ancients’, mysterious creatures of supreme power that supposedly rule in the depths of our world is naught but superstitious nonsense. As a scholar, how can I put my faith in hearsay, tattered records and stories passed down over centuries? I need evidence. I need facts, verified by firsthand accounts. When we actually sit down and try to …

To be honest, I’m both overwhelmed, and a little sad about my new stats. It’s an incredible improvement over my last evolution,  the gains to each of my stats is more than double, a feat which required the immense bonuses provided by the Mature Paragon evolution as well as a massive chunk of my evolutionary energy. It was necessary though. …

The demons are powerful monsters, no doubt about it. It should have been a given, seeing as how strong Invidia is, but I thought he was an exceptional case. He was hand crafted and raised by a team of Shapers who supposedly knew what they were doing, whereas the monsters of the third strata that I’ve run into so far …

Turns out that the Colony had already begun to invest a significant amount of time and energy into the wave farming project. As I exit the nest and make my way out into the tunnels, I see the vast wheels of ant industry turning on a grand scale. Tens of thousands of carvers, each and every one of them an …

Back to work then. No rest for the wicked, so they say. Not that I’m wicked. Whatever. Leaving the egg-laying chamber and embracing the rush of mana that comes once I leave the dungeon vein free zone in the heart of the nest, I try to get my bearings and work out exactly what I should be doing next. Quite …

I enter the egg-laying chamber to find Sarah rubbing the top of her giant bear head with one paw whilst mother looms over her, clearly irritated. A nearby mage spins together a mind bridge and I allow it to connect to me without complaint. It seems that mother wants Sarah to be able to listen in on the conversation. Makes …

Eager to begin my tickling spree, I rush into the chambers only to pull up when I notice someone rather unexpected in the room. Reacting quickly, I spin together a mind construct, marvelling at how powerful my mind feels handling the mana. [Hey there, Sarah! How’s things?] The giant bear sits in the centre of the chamber, grubs and brood …

The voices are back again. In fact, I’d say they’re even stronger than before. There’s so damn many of them! When hundreds of thousands of voices are whispering at you, it’s no longer a quiet sound, it’s a roar, powerful enough to drown out my own thoughts if I’m not careful. Each entity, each soul, is like a single drop …

The larval sea, that’s what I started to call it.  I don’t know how large that endless plain of black rock is, but I haven’t seen a single inch of it that wasn’t covered in demon larvae fighting to survive. Uncounted millions of them. It didn’t take long to reach level five and unlock my first evolution, but I didn’t …