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

while) I was able to regenerate eight HP and mostly restore myself to a

rewards have finally shown in the form of

but I cannot pass up the chance to improve my most effective offensive

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

Buy!

warm trickling sensation of skill learning melts through my brain.

this additional range boost I’ll be able to make more reliable shots from greater range, improving my safety as well as my ability to reliably output damage. It’s

only I had access to more skill 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,

for the

The Biomass.

superior vision to other monsters has been critical so far in allowing me to locate isolated

want 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 I could spend on legs, carapace or

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

stronger mandibles would help me dig a bit and sharper mandibles would help fight a little but not much, the only

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 unknown environment down below I want to have every possible advantage I

It’s settled then.

to purchase +4 eyes?

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

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

this torture.... Make

hate mutating. Mutations are

my vision is one again

improved quite a bit, I can even see my own gaster waggling behind me when I’m facing straight ahead!

certainly is massively

a long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will be

as fast as I can! Those humans will

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

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

just have to wait and see if

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