Chrysalis

I have a little breathing room whilst the workers deal with the monsters next to me and I decide to use it for maximum effect!

Turning on the spot I present my famed commercial plaza down the tunnel. The enemy are only meters away so aiming isn’t really necessary, once in position I unleash my acid!

POW! POW!

Two blasts sizzle their way through the air before impacting directly into the massive torsos of these horrendous threshing machines. The acid immediately begins to hiss as it burns into their flesh, hardening and sticking as soon as contact is made.

Hopefully I’ve managed to slow their blades down a little!

Enraged, the two monsters start to bull their way forward, slashing wildly with their limbs, even cutting into the rear of their two still struggling allies!

When the blade slices through the air and impacts into the monster to my right I seize on this chance and rush forward! If one of the weapons is stuck in that poor guy then it won’t be able to be swung at me! This should create an opening.

I burst forward and then cut immediately to my right, running directly under the lodged blade and up onto the wall of the narrow tunnel and then directly onto the roof. The ceiling isn’t high enough to be out of reach of those sharp limbs but of the four blades only the upper two will be able to reach, cutting the number of worries in half.

I also have to consider I won’t be quite as nimble upside down but I feel like it’s my best chance.

Crash!

The monster in front of me rips its blade out of the grievous wound it has caused its own ally and shift its entire body to throw weight behind the strike it directs at me, slamming the gleaming, hard edge directly into the rock in front of me.

Go!

Instinctively I leap, avoid the blade and landing on the powerful arm from which the cutting blade emerges. My feet scrabble to grip on the shifting flesh of the creature before my claws manage to arrest my momentum and dig in, allowing me to run over the shoulder and onto the creatures back.

POW!

I take the chance to fire another shot and the blade monster next to this one, splattering the beast across its flank with stinging acid. The creature turns as much as it can in the narrow space and I finally manage to spot the eyes above that savage beak, tiny red orbs that seem to burn with hate.

blades down on me with

roll to the side,

Crunch!

mortally wounding it. I lose two legs on my left side

didn’t think they’d be so crazy as to smash down on their own ally like that! They caught me

won’t be able to get my legs back

strike. The limbs from which the blades extend are powerful, thick

gushing out of my core, flooding through channels and directly into my mandibles. I engage Crushing Bite at the same time and my mandibles begin to glow brighter and brighter, as the mana builds in them they start to release

Take this!

SNAP!

my last practice, my mandibles shear directly through the

Cow! That was effective! But it used half of

and I desperately scrabble with my remaining legs to claw my way onto the monsters back, a place of relative safety. By this time my regeneration has done all it can for me, restoring eight Hp but

in the tunnel behind, trying to shove forward, their razor beaks shrieking as they

need to finish this one off and then retreat to get my

Crushing Bite!

my enemy collapses, but I don’t stop

level

[You have gained experience]

reached level

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really helped me in this situation. For now I just have to retreat back to safety. Climbing over the body of my defeated enemy I make my way back to towards the frontline where my fellow workers have finished off the first two monsters and are swarming over them, consuming them and pressing forward into

I can snack up for a few minutes I might

aside a few workers and

source of Biomass: Quator Ferrum Saevissimus, you

of the Quator Ferrum Saevissimus

Blade Berserker, This monster has four bone-metal compound blades on its upper body and enters a furious rage when in

of sense, these monster are certainly berserkers, hacking into each other without

I have to eat quickly and try to get back in there, these ants won’t be able to handle such dreadful monsters, no matter how