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

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

finally shown

skills I’d love to purchase but I

Shot skill, continues to improve accuracy with ranged acid attacks whilst giving additional improvement to attacks from

Buy!

of skill

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

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, leaving them behind and losing

the tricky

The Biomass.

to +4. Having superior vision to other monsters has been critical so far in allowing me to locate isolated prey and prevent others from

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

with a process of elimination, carapace upgrade would probably be pointless, +1 won’t make much of a

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 help fight a little but not much, the

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 can get.

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

this torture.... Make

Mutations are amazing!

my vision is one again

improved quite a bit, I can even see my own

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

long way Anthony, and soon,

to hang about being misty eyed! I have to continue to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as I can! Those humans will come roaring down into this cavern blasting everything they see before

possible I want to take advantage of the bonus Biomass for new targets... Since I’m fully rested, now it may be time to try and take on one of the blade

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

to wait and see if an

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