It was lost.
And every part of this place wanted to un-alive it. So much so, that since the first moment it was here, vines ripped throuout the air trying to grab it, its aerial maneuvers barely keeping up.
It had to find a way out of the second level. Before it eternally belonged here.
Its stamina didn't faulted, its subpar-strength didn't affect its stamina in any way, as if it was built to be this.
As it slowly traversed the level things progressed, the others here were stronger, vines faster, and it got increasingly colder.
Every second, every muinet was an unending fight, stinging the plants did little, only its ability to fly was keeping it safe from these PVC pipe sized vines.
At one point the vines turned into roots, that slowly got larger, and larger. How long it had been, it did not know, it was at least five times its pre-descent lifespan, occationaly littered with the,
[Killed Vinyl Rootius, +Exp]
Its occasional snack of vines fed it biomass, so much it thought it hit the limit.
[Biomass - 10]
And last but not least,
[Gen 1 - Warrior
Name - 001
Level- 5 [EVOLVE]
Biomass - 10
Str- 4
Int- 4
Agl- 4
End- 7
Enhancements- Stinger +1,
Skills- Carapace Usage Lv.4, Pollen Processing Lv.1, Honey Making Lv.1
]
After five days in the second level, the endless assault of the vines did not stop, not in the slightest, the occasional history were deflected by its carapace.
It also couldnt strengthen because the pain would interfere with its survival efforts, the new button didn't help.
Though it had gained level in its carapace usage skill, it didn't make an active difference, as it was subtle, maximize here while minimizing here.
As it kepy its pace up, it reached its limit many times, but for the hive, it had to move on. Its efforts were well spent, as it stumbled upon a small pocket under a boulder, where it wouldn't be attacked.
All it did after that was rest, accompanied by the pain of strengthening its venom. The +5 brought great benifits,
[Select an additional effect for the enhancement
-Neurotoxin
-Range Adaptation
-Mana Enhancement
-Steel Needl...]
The list went on and on, each option providing an emotional representation inside its mind.
It could feel the options.
To browsed through it, Mana Conductive, What's that, Barbed Stinger, no. there was even an option to add venom injectors to each of its hair follicals.
It landed on an interesting option, Sound sensing stinger. What this sound is it didn't know, the feel it got from it was different from the others.
[Option chosen, Sound Sensing Stinger, commencing enhancement]
Thousands of needles pounded their way into its stringer, metamorphizising every cell, divide and die was the motto, the amount of manager and nutrients travelling through its stinger multiplied, as if overcharged.
Suddenly a blistering pain came, a scraping, it didn't see it, but it heard it. The bursting loudness from it hurt its mind like an attack.
Only after hours of time did it get accustomed to its new sense. And even then it was absurdly loud.
It was time to go, it decided. As in rapidly flew throuought the caverns layout, it felt the attacks before they came, it felt them in sound.
It increasingly became faster, until even its fastest speed could not satisfy it, it pushed harder, until even the vines could not contain it, and at the speed it was going, it easily bashed through them. Its carapace took heavy hits, but its usage skill stood strong, and didn't let any major damage get through.
Tens of notitifications popped up, but while the vines never gave any exp, something new popped up, it only happened three times.
[You have surpassed your limits, Agility +1]
[You have surpassed your limits, Endurance +1]
[You have surpassed your limits, Agility +1]
Until it finally found its way out, it broke its limit, but as it left the second level and ascended back to the first, it felt a craving.
A craving, for war.
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Queens POV
She was not happy, her child had matured faster than it was supposed to, had she compressed too much energy into it?
The bee was daring, far more than the rest of the hive, endeavoring outside the hive alone was dangerous, but into the forest?!
It was absorb, the bungle of riskiness even tried to make her compliment it, she gave it a flurry of insults in its steed, but at least it brought food back for the hive, the new ones were admiring, what was it? One they were admiring One.
One was definitely not like the others, she even found a capilis corpse in the brood room,
even the others couldn't defeat the creature.
One's journey continued, but the hive hadn't seen One in days, the queen was deeply bothered by it, where had her definitely not "fovorite' child go? Two and Three hadn't seen One, and soon with the birth of 100, Ones legacy had all but disappeared.
The rest of the hive had started to expand, she even created a new worker type bee tour the colony, she pored all their points into intelligence, while maximizing the innate skill level of honeycomb creating, what was created baffled her, it was a smaller and smarter bee, it was just a bit less smart than she was, if only her [Brood Maker Lv.3] would level up.
The back of her mind was still worrying, they hadn't had a casualty yet, many in the colony thought One was dead, yet she could feel the bond she had with her child getting stronger, until,
[Gen 1, descendent, 001, has reached level 5, and may evolve, please add a Gen 2 Template]
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Stats
[Gen 1 - Warrior
Name - 001 [One]
Level- 5 (EVOLVE)
Biomass - 1
Str- 4
Int- 4
Agl- 5
End- 8
Enhancements- Sound Sensing Stinger +5,
Skills- Carapace Usage Lv.4, Pollen Processing Lv.1, Honey Making Lv.1
]