Sylas was admiring the queen with a gleam in his eye. Suddenly a smaller version of the screen popped up. On it said :
Birth Workers
(50 food)
Unspecialized Meta that maintain the nest. They complete tasks that include; cleaning, building, looking after eggs. Gathering speed is 20 of all resources an hour
Scyther
(200 food)
The most basic soldier Meta. Has scythes for arms and have low damage and health.
Birth Runner
(400)
Low damage high speed. Often used as scouts and messengers.
Royal Guard
(2000)
The queen's personal guard. They act under the queen and have higher growth rates other Meta could hope to achieve. They take longer than normal Meta to hatch and grow. Will cost more with every one hatched.
In an instant a cracking sound echoed around the room and 3 Metas broke through their honeycombs. They were half the size of a human with many limbs. Some limbs held hammers and others held pickaxes and axes. They had wired grey skin and were still wet from their emergence.
Ding
With the birth of a new queen, 3 workers have hatched for free to support her.
Ding
New Goal
Build a farm to gather more food.
Reward; Farmer
Ding
New Goal
Build a den inside your nest for Meta to heal.
Reward; DNA points
Sylas went into bird's eye view and imagined the trees in the area getting cut down. An hour later an area big enough for a farm was ready. Sylas thought about the build icon and a screen popped up. A lot of the options had a lock in front of them and required points to buy.
Sylas looked at the resources needed.
Farm
(100 food to make and 100 wood)
Produces 40 food an hour.
Sylas sent of the three workers to harvest materials. He had sent 3 of them to work on. It would take three hours to get enough resources. In the meantime Sylas checked out the den:
Den
(100 stone)
A place for Meta to heal
Some hours later Sylas placed the farm and the den down. They each would take a day to build and Sylas realized that he had nowhere to sleep. He had been so busy with developing his base that he had forgotten to look after himself. Sylas looked for somewhere he could sleep and he ended up throwing some leaves in the nest and sleeping on it. Sylas rolled and fidgeted in his sleep but he nodded off in time.
Some hours later Sylas placed the farm and the den down. By the time he had woken up the farm and den had finished. Sylas went into the hatching room and looked at the new farmer. It was a small Meta without a hoe but instead metal blades stuck down from his chest. Sylas sent the farmer to the field and looked at the goals.
Ding
Gained Farmer
Ding
Gained DNA point.
Sylas went into his bird's eye view and looked at the new option; DNA
A blue screen appeared in front of Sylas it contained countless evolutions and buffs. For example, he could increase intelligence and the quality of the farms. He could give Meta wings and tails or scales. The possibilities were endless.
While Sylas was deliberating he got a notification
Ding
Eradicate the human village
"What?"
A while after the humans had defeated the first Meta queen. They started to develop more, some humans decided to split up and make their own colonies. Soon they would find a habitable area and settle down there. Since they left the rest of humanity they couldn't rely on the army to protect them. Later on, they had build defenses and their own army.
Some of the colonies have grown to massive sizes. Some got stuck and they never caught back up to the rest of humanity. Sylas could guess by reading the goal that there was at least one human settlement on this planet. He could try to join back with the humans but that wouldn't happen as he felt at home here. It sounded silly, he had only been there for a few days but he felt a strong attachment towards the colony.
He felt like it was his own family.