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.

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

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

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

I cannot pass up the chance to

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

Buy!

skill learning melts through my brain.

I’ll be able to make more reliable shots from greater range, improving my safety as well as

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

the tricky

The Biomass.

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

improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that I could spend on legs, carapace or mandibles, all of

pointless, +1 won’t make much of a difference to anything, my defence is terrible, I’d

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

priority list? My instinct is to be more defensive. Moving into another unknown environment down

It’s settled then.

like to purchase +4 eyes? This will cost 4

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

that moment. I could feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and

this torture.... Make it

mutating. Mutations are amazing! But

my vision is

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 facing

certainly is massively improved from when

long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will be home with the

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

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

they certainly can move fast. There is also the possibility that their thick fur, which covers most of their body will be able to nullify my acid to some extent. The only exposed targets

wait and see

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