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.

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 health! I’m severely tempted to upgrade my carapace in the hopes it

consuming the slug (which took a good while) I was able to regenerate eight HP and mostly restore myself to a picture of ant

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

I cannot

cost 1 sp: The upgraded Acid Shot skill, continues to improve accuracy with ranged acid attacks whilst giving additional

Buy!

warm trickling sensation of skill learning melts through my brain.

more reliable shots from greater range,

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

for the tricky

The Biomass.

so far in allowing me to locate isolated prey and prevent

battle and gain more Biomass then directly improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that I could spend on legs, carapace or

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

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 creature I’ve managed to bite much at all is

+4 eyes or +3 acid with +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 unknown environment down below I want to have every possible advantage I can get. That means being able to see the

It’s settled then.

you like to purchase +4 eyes?

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

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

this torture....

Mutations are amazing! But mutating

my vision is one again

of vision has improved quite a

it certainly is massively improved from

long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will be

time to hang about being misty eyed! I have to continue to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as I can! Those humans will come

I go, scurrying onto the roof and once more going on the hunt. If possible I want to take advantage of the bonus Biomass for new targets...

two or three and they certainly can move fast. There is also the possibility that their thick fur, which covers most of their body

have to wait and see if an opportunity presents

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