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.

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

took a good while) I was able to regenerate eight HP

finally shown in

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

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

Buy!

sensation of skill learning melts through my

range, improving my safety as well as my ability to

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 behind and losing out on XP would be a

the

The Biomass.

my eyesight to +4. Having superior vision to other monsters has been critical so far in allowing me to locate

then directly improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that I

with a process of elimination, carapace upgrade would probably be pointless, +1 won’t make much of a difference to anything, my defence is terrible, I’d rather work

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

leaves me with really only two viable paths, +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

It’s settled then.

like to purchase +4 eyes?

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

the itch that overcame me in that moment. I could feel

Gandalf... this torture.... Make

hate mutating. Mutations are amazing! But mutating

settles down and my vision is

improved quite a

vision still isn’t what I’d like it to be but it certainly

way Anthony, and soon, soon you

Biomass as fast as I can! Those humans will come roaring down into this cavern blasting everything they

into the main tunnel I go, scurrying onto the roof and once more going on the hunt. If possible I want to take advantage of the bonus Biomass

that their thick fur, which covers most of their body will be able to nullify my acid to some

and see if

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