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.

sticky goop fired on me was bad enough but oh boy 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 health! I’m severely tempted to upgrade

to regenerate eight HP and mostly restore myself to

have finally shown in the form of Acid Shot level 5! Ready to

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

Shot skill, continues to

Buy!

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

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

had access to more skill points! I’ll have to level up again as quickly as possible, so many skills are converging to

for the tricky

The Biomass.

critical so far in allowing me to locate isolated prey and prevent others from sneaking up on me, the advantage

effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that I could spend on legs,

make much

cost effective indeed. +1 Mandibles doesn’t tempt me much, larger, stronger mandibles would help me dig a bit and sharper mandibles would help

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

It’s settled then.

to purchase +4 eyes? This will cost

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

I could feel my

Gandalf... this torture.... Make

are amazing! But mutating

it settles down and my

can 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 when I’m

like it to be but it certainly is massively improved from when I was first reborn

Anthony, and soon, soon you will be home

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

the hunt. If possible I want to take advantage of the bonus Biomass for new targets... Since I’m fully rested, now

groups of two or three and they certainly can move fast. There is also the possibility that their

and see if an opportunity

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