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.

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

(which took a good while) I was able to regenerate eight HP and mostly restore myself to a picture

acid in combat the rewards have finally shown in the form of

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

-> Improved Acid Shot. cost 1 sp: The upgraded Acid Shot skill, continues to improve accuracy with ranged acid attacks whilst

Buy!

the warm trickling sensation of skill learning melts through my brain.

range, improving my safety as well as my ability to reliably

skills are converging to

the

The Biomass.

eyesight to +4. Having superior vision to other monsters has been critical so far in allowing me to locate isolated prey and prevent others from sneaking up on me,

this would then leave one extra Biomass that I could

upgrade would probably be pointless, +1 won’t make much of a difference to anything, my defence is

is tempting, I’d become a bit more mobile which would help for scouting, retreating and fighting all together, cost effective indeed. +1 Mandibles doesn’t tempt me much, larger, stronger mandibles would help me dig a bit and sharper mandibles would help fight a little but not much, the only

Do I continue to place my senses at the top of my priority list? My instinct is to be more defensive. Moving into another unknown environment down below I want to have every possible advantage I can get. That means being able to see the enemy before they see

It’s settled then.

to purchase +4 eyes? This

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and my carapace shifting to make way

Gandalf... this torture.... Make it

hate mutating. Mutations are

it settles down and my vision

tell that now since my eyes bulge further out from my head, my field of vision has improved quite a bit, I can even see my own gaster waggling behind me

still isn’t what I’d like it to be but it certainly is massively improved from when I was first

long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will be home with

Biomass as fast as

to take advantage of the bonus Biomass for new

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 extent. The

just have to wait and see if an

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