Chrysalis

Chapter 21

Phew, that was a furiously busy day. They have said in the past that great risk bring great reward and of course that is true.

It isn’t like I didn’t know that already, but I’d hoped to minimise as much risk as possible, circumstances have forced me into being aggressive and thankfully it has paid off!

I check my status to behold my incredible bounty!

Name: Anthony

Level: 4

Might: 15

Toughness: 12

Cunning: 25

Will: 18

HP: 28

MP: 0

Skills: Digging level 4; Acid Shot Level 5; Grip Level 4; Bite Level 4; Advanced Stealth Level 1; Tunnel Sense Level 3

Mutations: Eyes +3, Antennae +2, Acid +2

Species: Hatchling Ant Worker (Formica)

Skill points: 1

Biomass: 4

After consuming the Thorn Lizard and remains of my Coral Slug I had two Biomass, I held onto those and found another isolated Coral Slug to battle. By repeating my trick from earlier I was able to deal critical damage by landing a shot inside its mouth, however I wasn’t quite as quick and didn’t manage to avoid the acidic mucus the slug managed to project at me.

did it burn. I had a partially melted section of carapace on the back of my thorax and lost 10 HP before it stopped melting into me. Even just that small bit of acid was a third of my

while) I was able to regenerate eight HP and mostly restore myself to a picture of

have finally shown in the form of Acid Shot level

still a few basic skills I’d love to purchase but I cannot pass up the chance

skill, continues to improve

Buy!

of skill learning melts through

able to make more reliable shots from greater range, improving my safety as well as my

only I had access to more skill points! I’ll have to level up again as quickly as possible, so many skills are converging to level four! I want to upgrade all of them if possible, leaving them behind and losing

for the

The Biomass.

Having superior vision to other monsters has been critical so far in allowing me to locate isolated prey and prevent others from sneaking

mean improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that

+1 won’t make much of a difference to anything,

doesn’t tempt me much, larger, stronger mandibles would help me dig a bit and sharper

+1 legs. Do I continue to place my senses at the top of my priority list? My instinct is to be more defensive. Moving into another

It’s settled then.

you like to purchase +4 eyes? This

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

moment. I could feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and my carapace shifting to make

Gandalf... this torture.... Make

hate mutating. Mutations are

and my

has improved quite a bit, I can even

but it certainly is massively improved from when I was first

soon, soon

eyed! I have to continue to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as

scurrying onto the roof and once more going on the hunt. If possible I want to take advantage of the bonus

finding one of them alone. They tend to move around in groups of two or three and they certainly can move fast. There is also the possibility that their thick fur, which covers most of their body will be able to nullify my acid to some

and see if an

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