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.

upper two blades down on me with terrible force, the sharp

roll to the side,

Crunch!

wounding it. I lose two legs on

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

I activate my regeneration, welcoming the explosion of freezing cold within. I won’t be able to get my legs back

limbs from which the blades extend are powerful, thick with ropes of dense

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

Take this!

SNAP!

I’ve managed to regenerate since my last practice, my mandibles shear directly through

it used half of my remaining

all it can for

trying to shove forward, their razor beaks shrieking as they slash wildly

and then retreat

Crushing Bite!

collapses, but I don’t stop there.

slain level

[You have gained experience]

reached level

...

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

Biomass available in front of me. My regeneration gland is empty but if I can snack up for a few minutes I might

forward I push aside a few

of Biomass: Quator Ferrum Saevissimus, you are

of the Quator Ferrum Saevissimus

Ferrum Saevissimus: Four Blade Berserker, This monster has four bone-metal compound blades on its upper body and enters a furious rage when in combat, increasing its

monster are certainly berserkers,

eat, rushing forward to fight. I have to eat quickly and try to get back in there, these