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.

melted section of carapace on the back of my thorax and lost 10 HP before it stopped melting into me. Even just

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

in combat the rewards have finally shown in the form of Acid

a few basic skills I’d love to purchase but I cannot pass up the chance to

continues to improve accuracy with ranged acid attacks

Buy!

the warm trickling sensation of skill learning

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

I 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 out on

the tricky

The Biomass.

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

improving my acid, this would then leave one extra Biomass that I could spend on legs,

would probably be pointless, +1 won’t make much of a difference to anything, my defence is terrible, I’d rather work on speed

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 is the Thorn Lizard

Do I continue to place my senses at the top of my priority list? My instinct is to be more defensive. Moving

It’s settled then.

like to purchase +4 eyes? This will cost 4

Oh boy....

Yes.

hhhhuuuuuuuuUUUUUUAAAARRRRRRRRGHHHH!!!!

can’t describe the itch that overcame me in that moment. I could feel my eyeballs growing, stretching and my carapace shifting to make

this torture....

Mutations are

it settles down and my vision is

tell that now since my eyes bulge further out from my head, my field of vision has improved

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

You’ve come a 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

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 rested, now it may be

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

and see if an opportunity presents

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