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.
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
I was able to regenerate eight
much acid in combat the rewards have finally shown in the form of Acid Shot
skills I’d love to purchase but I cannot pass up the chance to
Shot. cost 1 sp: The upgraded Acid Shot skill, continues to improve accuracy with ranged acid attacks whilst giving additional improvement to
Buy!
of skill learning melts through my
more reliable shots from greater range, improving my safety as well as my ability to reliably output damage. It’s a
converging to level four! I want to upgrade all of them if possible, leaving them behind and losing out on
for the tricky
The Biomass.
Having superior vision to other monsters has been critical so far in allowing
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
with a process of elimination, carapace upgrade would probably be pointless, +1 won’t make much of a difference to anything, my defence is
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
my priority list? My instinct is to be more
It’s settled then.
you like to purchase +4 eyes? This will
Oh boy....
Yes.
hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!
describe the itch that overcame me in that moment. I could feel my eyeballs growing,
Gandalf... this torture....
Mutations are amazing! But mutating
my
field of vision has improved quite a bit, I can even see my own gaster
it to be but it certainly is massively improved from when I was first reborn
come a long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will be home
continue to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as I can! Those humans
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 I’m fully
that their thick fur, which covers most of their body will be able to nullify my acid to some extent. The only exposed targets
and see if an
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