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.

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 of my health! I’m severely tempted to upgrade my carapace in the hopes it provides better protection but there

to regenerate eight HP and mostly restore myself to a picture of

so much acid in combat the rewards have finally shown in the form of Acid

love to purchase but I cannot pass up the chance to improve my most

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

Buy!

of skill learning melts

greater range, improving my safety as well as

as possible, so many skills are converging to level four! I want to upgrade

for 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

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

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

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

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 I want to have every possible advantage I can get. That means being able to see the

It’s settled then.

purchase +4 eyes? This will cost

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

could feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and

this torture.... Make it

hate mutating. Mutations are amazing!

and my vision is one

tell that now since my eyes bulge further out from my head, my field of vision has improved quite a bit, I can even see my

I’d like it to be but it certainly

You’ve come a long way Anthony, and soon, soon you will be home with the

to continue to harvest XP and Biomass as fast as I can! Those humans will come roaring down into

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 rested, now it may be time to try and take on one of

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 targets I could aim for are their faces, feet and

have to wait and see if

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