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.

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

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

in combat the rewards have finally shown in the

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

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

Buy!

skill learning melts through my brain.

shots from greater range, improving my safety as well as my

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

for 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

want to battle and gain more Biomass then directly improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would

elimination, carapace upgrade would probably be pointless, +1 won’t make much of a difference to anything, my

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

my senses at the top of my priority list? My instinct is to be more defensive. Moving into another unknown environment down below I

It’s settled then.

like to purchase +4 eyes? This will cost

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

could feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and my carapace

torture....

hate mutating. Mutations are

and my

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

be but it certainly is massively improved from when I was first reborn

You’ve come a long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will

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

advantage of

trick is finding one of them alone. They tend to move around 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 to nullify my acid

wait and

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