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.

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

slug (which took a good while) I was able to

in combat the rewards have finally shown

love to purchase but I cannot pass up the chance to improve my

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

Buy!

skill learning melts through my

be able to make more reliable shots from greater range, improving my safety as well as my ability to reliably output damage.

as possible, so many skills are converging to level four! I want to

the tricky

The Biomass.

really want to upgrade my 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, the advantage in senses must never be

directly improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would

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

legs 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 creature I’ve managed to bite much at all is the Thorn Lizard

+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

It’s settled then.

you like to purchase +4 eyes?

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

overcame me in that moment. I could feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and my carapace shifting to

torture....

hate mutating. Mutations are amazing! But mutating

my vision is one again

tell that now since my eyes bulge further out from my head, my field of vision has improved

certainly is massively improved from

way Anthony, and soon, soon you

continue to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as I can! Those humans

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

that their thick fur, which covers most of their body will be able

just have to wait and see if

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