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.

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 of my health! I’m severely tempted to upgrade my carapace in the hopes it

to regenerate

have finally shown in the form of Acid Shot level 5!

to purchase but I cannot pass up the chance to

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

Buy!

sensation of skill learning melts through my brain. So

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

for the

The Biomass.

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

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

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

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

leaves me with really only 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

It’s settled then.

purchase +4

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

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

torture.... Make it

hate mutating. Mutations are

it settles down and my vision is one

further out from my head, my field of vision has improved quite a bit, I can even see my

it certainly is massively improved from when I was first reborn here in

a long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will

time 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

main tunnel I go, scurrying onto the roof and once more going on the hunt. If possible I want to take advantage of the bonus

the possibility that their thick fur, which covers most of their body will be able to nullify my

to wait and

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