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.

on me with

I roll to the side, almost succeeding in dodging the

Crunch!

the creature I’m standing on, mortally wounding it. I lose two legs on my left side as collateral damage, the limbs sheared clean

pain is intense! I didn’t think they’d be so crazy as to smash down on their own ally like that!

cold within. I won’t be

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

I activate my upgraded mandibles with a thought. Instantly I feel mana 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

Take this!

SNAP!

last practice, my mandibles shear directly through the monsters limb, cutting

That was effective! But it used half of my remaining mana, I’ll

of relative safety. By this time my regeneration has done all it can for me, restoring eight Hp but it’s not enough to complete bring my missing limbs back, two small stumps have emerged from the remaining sections of the missing legs. I can wiggle them a

to shove forward, their razor beaks shrieking as they slash wildly into the air. How many of these stupid things

and then retreat to get my bearings

Crushing Bite!

over again, tearing into the muscle until my enemy collapses, but I don’t stop there. I keep biting until the voice of Gandalf echoes in

have slain level 14 Quator Ferrum

[You have gained experience]

have reached level

...

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

eyes light up when I see the Biomass available in front of me. My regeneration gland is empty but if I can snack up for a few minutes I might be able to gain some more Hp back. I

a few workers and start

Biomass: Quator Ferrum Saevissimus, you are awarded one

the Quator

has four bone-metal compound blades on its upper body and enters a furious rage when in combat, increasing its strength but causing it to struggle to tell friend from

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

continue to arrive at the fight, some of them climbing straight over me as I eat, rushing forward to fight. 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 much they