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.

I had a partially melted section of carapace on the back of my thorax and lost 10 HP before it stopped melting into me.

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

in combat the rewards have finally shown in the form of Acid Shot level 5! Ready to

still a few basic skills I’d love to purchase but I cannot

to improve accuracy with ranged acid attacks whilst

Buy!

warm trickling sensation of skill

range, improving my safety as well as my ability to reliably output

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 out on XP would be

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 sneaking up on

directly improving my combat effectiveness would mean improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that I could spend

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

+1 legs is 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 help fight a little but not much, the only creature I’ve managed to bite much at all

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. That means being able to

It’s settled then.

you like to purchase +4

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

could feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and my carapace shifting to make way

Gandalf... this torture.... Make it

mutating. Mutations are amazing! But

down and my vision is one

field of vision has improved quite a bit, I can even see my own gaster waggling behind me when I’m facing straight

I’d like it to be but it certainly is massively improved from when

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

time to hang about being misty eyed! I have to continue to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as I

advantage of the bonus Biomass for new targets... Since I’m fully rested, now it

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 to some extent. The only exposed

and

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