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.

that 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 my carapace in the hopes it provides

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

the rewards have finally shown in

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

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

Buy!

skill learning melts through my brain.

from greater range, improving my

skills are converging to level four! I want to upgrade all of them if possible, leaving them behind and losing

the tricky

The Biomass.

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

to battle and gain more Biomass then directly improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that

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

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

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.

to purchase +4 eyes? This will

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

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

torture.... Make it

Mutations are

it settles down and my vision is one

has improved quite

like it to be but it certainly is massively improved from

and soon, soon you will be home

and Biomass as fast as I can! Those humans will come roaring down into

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

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

to wait and see if

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