The triad moved on to the next option. Anthony had been presented with multiple Mythic evolution options at tier seven, and he had even more to select from this time. This was further confirmation to the theory that ants were being rewarded for reaching higher tiers, something that wasn’t expected of their species.
Although, as soon as they examined the next evolution, they had d...
2025-07-28 04:23:45 +0000 UTC View PostWE ARE BACK TO YOUR REGULAR SCHEDULE THIS WEEK! EVOLUTION TIME WHOOOOOOOOOO!
There are many who have dedicated themselves to the art of raising pets to fight on their behalf within the Dungeon. Expensive, time consuming, emotionally draining, mentally taxing, it is not a pursuit for the faint of heart or weak of mind, but for those who truly master it...
2025-07-28 02:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostElsbeth walked through the streets of the ruined city and wondered at the change in atmosphere she sensed from the people who inhabited it. Did they feel safe now that Tyron was gone? Were they glad to be out from under his thumb, no longer needing to fear the Necromancer who might turn on them at any moment?
Or perhaps it was the opposite? Was she sensing an air of fragility, of v...
2025-07-25 07:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post“We are so fucked,” Dove groaned, collapsing to his knees and planting his bony hands in the skulls beneath him. “Why did you have to bring us here? Do you have any idea what you’ve done? I’ve seen one-copper whores on festival day less fucked than we are!”
Tyron continued his inspection of the surroundings, only half listening as his horde continued to pour through the...
2025-07-24 03:59:37 +0000 UTC View PostGot this done while waiting for my plane. More Chrysalis next week! Evolution time babyyyyyy!
It isn’t uncommon for members of the various Cults to debate the merits and strengths of the Ancients as monsters, though with an obvious and significant bias towards their own deity. When debating who is the physically strongest of the Ancients, Rigorite and Yarrum are usu...
2025-07-22 19:56:37 +0000 UTC View PostWell, well, well.
Litrpg con was my first event, my first time travelling to the USA (since I was... 10?) and holy moly, a lot went down.
First off, I have to say a huge thank you to any of you here who came up and said hello, I know there's a few of you. It was awesome to chat to the readers of Chrysalis and Book of the Dead, shake your hand and say thank you in person for the awe...
2025-07-22 17:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostHopefully one more tonight. I hoped to have all mutations done so I could do the first evolution chapter this week, but didn't quite get there.
Sorry!
Thanks for all the notes on the last chapter status page. Many updates have been made. i'll post his full status post mutations for you all tomorrow.
Carriflare, for some re...
2025-07-18 00:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the most deeply contested grudges amongst the Cults is held between the followers of Theorazzn and Morribolg of the Fetid Earth.
Perhaps this reflects the long-held myth that the two Ancients themselves are bitter rivals who competed over the fifth stratum, trying to find who would succeed in the race to paint it in their own image.
Morribolg is s...
2025-07-16 02:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSyssernix the Dark Spear is one of the more mysterious Ancients, a trait adopted by their Cult. The followers of the Dark Spear are almost impossible to find, a secretive organisation that operates primarily amongst the brathian, who surface for reasons known only to them before they vanish once more.
What little is known is that Syssernix is a creature of shadow and w...
2025-07-15 07:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note: My travels start tomorrow and its become clear I'm not going to manage to maintain the schedule this week.
So, a compromise. Chrysalis this week, BoD the next, then back to normal. I apologise for not being able to keep up the post frequency. I'd attempted to get far enough ahead so I could have the week done in advance, but it just hasn't happened.<...
2025-07-14 10:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Rolan returned from the realm of his gods, it was clear that they had taken his soul. His eyes were glazed over, sightless, and he shambled like a zombie as he shuffled forward.
A little disappointed, Tyron took the enchanted stone, the latest version of what he had come to call a ‘soul trap’ from his pocket and checked it. As he suspected, it was empty. Whatever the...
2025-07-11 12:16:43 +0000 UTC View PostAs a member of the Cult of the Worm myself, I believe it is most appropriate to begin with what is known of Yarrum. There are, of course, many tales passed down within the cult regarding the feats the Eternal Worm achieved while on the surface, but it is difficult to know which have some basis in reality.
Yarrum is said to have drunk an ocean, consuming all of the wate...
2025-07-11 11:41:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe powers of the Ancients are legendary, even among those who know them best: the cults who worship and serve them. If one were to ask the Cult of the Worm what Yarrum was capable of, they would attest to the incredible strength of the monster, able to crush mountains by wrapping around them and squeezing. Or perhaps they would wax lyrical about the dreaded maw of the great worm, with teet...
2025-07-10 11:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostTo create a path from one realm to another was no simple thing. The more Tyron learned about it, the more he appreciated the elegance of the three rituals he learned from the Anathema Class. They were able to slice through the veil and establish their desired paths while making it seem relatively straight forward.
In designing his own ritual, Tyron had learned that it was no ...
2025-07-10 09:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post“How bad is it?” Corun asked.
Granin took his hand off the dark purple carapace and grunted.
“I won’t make a song and dance about it. It’s bad.”
Corun looked shocked, but Torrina only nodded, her expression grim.
“What are the options? There has to be something we can do, otherwise you wouldn’t have agreed to come here,” she asked him.
Gran...
2025-07-09 05:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t like travelling with Brilliant. Her little… dimensional hops, or whatever she wants to call them, leave me feeling nauseous and headachy. Even trying to imagine how the process works is enough to make my brains throb. How did she even figure out how to do this?! There weren’t any ants in the Colony who had any knowledge of different dimensions, and now Brilliant is out ther...
2025-07-08 04:55:19 +0000 UTC View PostSolant watched as the last of the Krath resistance was swept from the field. They’d lasted longer than she’d expected, a testament to how tenacious they were as enemies. She had a respect for the slug tribes. As enemies, they were everything the little general could ask for: cunning, vicious, willing to sacrifice in order to achieve victory, canny in the ways they utilised their adva...
2025-07-07 01:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post“I still think we should do this with cores,” Annita said.
Master Willhem, floating nearby, nodded in agreement.
“In this instance, I’m afraid I must respectfully disagree with the two Masters,” Tyron said.
They’d been needling him about the power mechanism for the last hour. First with hinting, then with suggestions. When those hadn’t worked, ...
2025-07-05 06:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he awoke, Tyron took the minimum of time to wash and eat before he rushed back to work, too excited with his current project to wait any longer than that. He was still stuffing the remains of a baked potato in his face when he arrived at the entrance to the Ossuary and pushed open the door.
The wyvern, rather expectedly, hadn’t moved from the day before, still laid out over ...
2025-07-03 07:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Where is Zluth?” Soluzz bellowed.
The other Krath’lath had remained close to him, cowards and fools, all of them, but at least he had seen Zluth out fighting. That scout had shown he was a capable Krath’lath, though still young, and Soluzz had plans for him, a pawn to extend the power of the Zissth even further, but now he was nowhere to be seen.
“He ran away...
2025-07-03 00:21:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Krath were losing. No matter how many times they beat back the armoured ants, they kept coming back, climbing up the walls, throwing themselves recklessly forward, as if they didn’t care if they lived or died. Even when they seemed like they were about to fall, even when it seemed like they couldn’t take any more, they started… burning, catching fire from within, and then they ...
2025-07-02 08:55:30 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, this is getting silly. How much of this liquid mana did Solant make inside the fortress?! The flow bursting out of the vents hasn’t weakened in the slightest, the jets are several metres thick! This is liquid mana! I didn’t even know that was a thing!
Forget about condensed mana, this is condensed, condensed. I almost can’t believe how dense it is. ...
2025-07-02 07:05:21 +0000 UTC View PostLeeroy was enjoying the battle, an emotion she usually didn’t get to experience. For the most part, the Immortals didn’t get to fight like this. They usually charged until they got bogged down, then slugged it out with whatever they were against, right up until their Phoenix Fire Organs kicked in and healed them, allowing them to get stuck in all over again. At this point, most oppon...
2025-07-01 08:51:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey there folks.
A special edition of Chrysalis is being put together for kickstarter later in the year and I had a question regarding the style of art you would like to see in the book.
There are all sorts of features being proposed, like a beastiary and a fancy leather cover etc, but this is the one thing I want feedback on immediately.
What sort of art style do you want to see...
2025-07-01 06:05:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt is not the purpose or mission of the Nameless Ones to use their abilities to fight on behalf of the Colony.
Formed by a cadre of dedicated, some would say fanatical, ants of all castes, with the guidance of the Shadow, their stated goal has always been to enforce the will of the Eldest upon those who insufficiently respect it. Within the Colony, there is no in...
2025-06-30 13:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostIf the ants kept flooding into the heart, then the fight was completely lost. Zluth had grasped the numbers the insects had brought to the fifth while scouting their cursed platform. Rank after rank emerged from within the walls, no matter how many were injured or forced to fall back.
With so many Krath still at the fortress, they couldn’t hope to compete with a tenth of what the...
2025-06-29 12:06:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t long into the battle before most of the platforms the Zissth had constructed were completely destroyed. The armoured ants, in their insane zeal, had smashed everything they could in their charge, latching onto the Krath’s trained monsters, forcing themselves into their mouths, or simply flinging themselves into the air, dragging their victims down with them.
Now Zluth...
2025-06-27 11:48:35 +0000 UTC View PostSuch a large creature demanded an absurd amount of weaving. The musculature of the monster was easily ten times that of a human, and Tyron was determined to do all of it as precisely and completely as he could. That meant using the rope techniques to create stronger fibres for the tendons and certain muscle groups, particularly around the shoulders and back.
It was extremely ...
2025-06-27 11:11:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t easy to create a ritual that would pierce the Dimensional Veil to another realm. A great deal of power was required, the spellwork had to be incredibly precise and messing it up could create fluctuations that had very serious consequences. At worst, one could tear an opening to the Abyss and let through something that would promptly dissolve the body of the caster into a fine...
2025-06-26 07:53:40 +0000 UTC View PostSoon after the Immortals somehow ran into the air on a golden road, they started coming back down again. Not particularly gently, either. With enemies gripped in their mandibles, the armour clad ants are literally dragging their opponents to the floor of the heart, crashing into the liquid mana with tremendous force and holding their victims down as the purified energy breaks th...
2025-06-25 08:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post