Chrysalis

I can feel my crushing bite crunch down with sickening force directly on the poor beasts throat, destroying it immediately.

[You have defeated level 4 Crevit Lupus Draco]

[You have gained experience]

[Basic profile of Crevit Lupus Draco unlocked]

[Crevit Lupus Draco, Grown Wolf-Dragon, the evolved form of the cub, this larger, more powerful creature has a greatly increased Might, allowing it to strike brutally with its scaled tail]

Not enough experience to give me a level up but the low level of the monster makes me hopeful it might have given up an evolution and condensed a core, not that I have time to extract it right now.

As soon as I have dealt the final blow to the wolf-dragon I am immediately set upon by a definitively un-fluffy horde of rabbits. I'm not too worried about their assault since I assume that my shiny diamond carapace will repel their efforts, its incredible hardness is Gandalf guaranteed!

I am swiftly disabused of that notion as several rabbits bare their notably long fangs and manage to puncture my shiny hide ever so slightly. What the hell?! I'm supposed to be hard as diamond Gandalf? Is this false advertising?

Small stinging pains can be felt wherever the rabbits have bitten me and I quickly check my status to confirm exactly how much damage I've taken.

Phew!

Thankfully the damage is minimal, just four Hp, but I'm still fairly shocked to see that those fangs are able to defeat my sturdy carapace. This isn't good! Those little buggers are going to be able to rip right into the workers when they arrive!

My concern is a beat too late as lots of workers have responded to my pheromone trail and upon seeing the conflict they immediately throw themselves into battle, rushing forward to latch bite savagely at the first rabbit they see.

Damn workers! Can't you hesitate, even for a second?

Now I'm terrified that my actions here are going to put a significant number of my colony brethren six feet under, not in a digging sense but in a burial one. Dammit Anthony! Get in there and help out your people!

literally hanging off me I turn and charge out of the center of the battle, making my way to where the ants have begun to fight. Tiny starts reaching out with his little fists and pounding the rabbits directly in the face with all the strength he can summon. He doesn't seem to be doing much damage but at least some of the rabbits

assist there

from the hill, roughly twenty ants are here already, moving towards the nearest enemy and latching on immediately with their mandibles, causing many rabbits

flying before I even get in position to

colliding with a tree. I hope they are able to last

I start to lash out left

Crushing Bite! Crushing Bite!

to finish off as the fight is quickly escalating. More and

to get a quick look and then blast out

you little varmint?! Let my acid take a bite

immediately grates on my ears. I thought rabbits were supposed to be quiet creatures?

swear more rabbits have arrived since this combat began, at first I thought I'd only

it with tail and fang. Since all of those monsters are demon

and more small puncture wounds appear in my carapace as I continue to charge through the combat, acting as a living shield to my smaller brethren. I'm starting to hope that these blasted fangs aren't poisoned or I might really

Crushing bite!

with its powerful hind legs directly into my thorax beneath my head. The impact of the kick rocks me backwards but the shock is readily absorbed by my powerful carapace and I manage to maintain my

bunny of

CRUNCH.

mandibles meet each other in the middle, having shorn through

defeated a level

[You have gained experience]

me I take a brief moment to chomp down on the rabbit I just finished

of Biomass, Dens Sanguinem Leporis

Profile of Dens Sanguinem Leporis

for its affinity to shadow and the powerful fangs capable of draining health from