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.

10 HP before it stopped

to

much acid in combat the rewards have finally shown in the form of Acid Shot level 5! Ready to be

to purchase but I cannot pass up the chance to improve my most effective offensive

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.

I’ll be able to make more reliable shots from greater range, improving my safety as well as my ability to reliably output damage. It’s a

again as quickly as possible, so many skills are converging to level four! I want to upgrade all

for the tricky

The Biomass.

far in allowing

I want to battle and gain more Biomass then directly improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this

make much of a difference to anything, my defence is terrible,

me much, larger, stronger mandibles would help me dig a bit and sharper mandibles would help fight a little but not much, the only creature I’ve managed to bite much at all is the Thorn

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

It’s settled then.

+4 eyes? This will cost

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

overcame me in that moment. I could feel my eyeballs

Gandalf... this torture....

Mutations are

and my vision is

improved quite a bit, I can even see my own gaster

but it certainly is massively improved

soon,

to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as I can!

possible I want to take advantage of the bonus Biomass for new targets... Since

the possibility that their thick fur, which covers most of their body will

and see if an

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