There isn’t much time and I still want to work on myself as much as possible. I have skills I need to grow and a whole heck of mutations I need to purchase to get myself in fighting shape. I don’t want to take my superiority for granted anymore. After losing half of my commercial district to a hostile takeover …

Still, it isn’t as though my efforts have gone completely to waste. Rushing into the thick of the battle and chomping away certainly got me fairly battered, but the harvest of skill levels is still worth it. It’s a bit unfortunate that these enemies are so unevolved but I suppose a large mass of monsters like this would be far …

The next day I dedicated myself to digging out the channels for the village to use for irrigation. With Tiny helping we shifted a heck of a lot of dirt, very quickly indeed. As a side project we used the extra dirt to erect a nice and high bank for the channel network, as well as building up the height …

The next few days pass in a blur. Crinis, Tiny and I continue to use our skills over and over again in the search of those elusive levels. In order to push harder, we forego sleep. No true training montage includes sleep! This does mean things get a little hazy after a while Tiny and I managed to take the …

I’m exhausted and my mandibles are aching something fierce after all that digging, but is it time to rest? NOPE. Those damn pupae are teasing me with their very existence. The twenty large casings are resting against the side of a chamber, taunting me with their stillness. Within them, the hope of ant kind is taking the final steps of …

It would be utterly ridiculous if the humans were to be working harder than the ants. That is a situation that could never be borne! Never! Ants are the hardest working, most industrious species on the face of the earth. Never tiring! Never slowing! Now it’s time to show it! Watching the humans feverishly working as if possessed by a …

It’s time to get down to work and we have a long laundry list of things to do. When Crinis revives, I put her on guard duty and take Tiny topside. The first order of business is to lend our muscle to the villagers as they struggle to make space for the growing number of refugees. With Tiny’s significant physical …

[Crinis, you look wonderful!] [R,r,r,r, really, Master?!] [Absolutely. What a wonderful evolution! Such an incredible difference! You positively radiate power and strength! Surely you are my most potent servant] Crinis wiggles with glee in front of me. [D, don’t praise me too much] she says, embarrassed but also delighted. [Nonsense. I insist you come over here so I can check …

Somewhere in the forest expanse a predator lay. Old and implacable it had hunted these tunnels for hundreds of years. How many creatures had perished between these jaws? How many had been torn by these claws? It was a number too vast to have meaning. Uncountable. In the early times, where the memories are dim and blurred, it had hunted …

This is a big moment for me. I’ve nearly upgraded every body part to +10. It isn’t the full milestone that +15 would be, but it’s partway there! My mutations have been lagging behind for way too long, it’s nice to finally be able to boost up this side of the power equation. I’ve been neglecting the various aspects that …