Chrysalis

The effect of the gravity bomb is far beyond my expectations. That was only forty percent of the gland being charged! What would one hundred percent look like? I shudder to imagine. To be honest I’m not even sure if I would be able to control that much energy. The gravity bomb I just fired had almost escaped my grasp, even after my upgraded mental capacity.

Just goes to show how difficult magic is to perform in this world, even with my heavy investment to upgrade my mental capacity it isn’t necessarily going to be enough to take me all the way to the end of the magic road. In future evolutions I may need to further invest in expanding my sub-brain and increasing my will stat.

For now the results are certainly good enough.

[You have gained experience]

[You have gained experience]

The voice of Gandalf continues to echo in chorus in my mind dozens of times, announcing the same message.

[You have reached level 2]

Even after smashing all of those of claw centipedes I only gained enough experience for one level. The penalty for defeating creatures a whole two evolutions below me is being displayed.

In the aftermath of the gravity bomb there is an eerie silence for a moment. Tiny and I begin to descend the tree in order to survey the damage more closely. As grow closer to the mound several centipedes begin to crawl out from deep within their nest, clearly protected from the blast by their position below the ground level.

These guys are seriously mad, claws snatching at the air and mandibles viciously chomping in a clear display of their rage. Tiny and I are quite delighted to see them and happily hurl ourselves upon the foes, ready to do battle.

I’m especially glad to see these centipedes survive as they are perfect for training a new skill I’ve wanted to level up for some time.

My Exo-skeleton defense skill!

This particular purchase was part of my effort to tank up, buffing my defense to the point I wouldn’t have to fear little beasties like these guys, but I haven’t had a good opportunity to test it and gain experience in it yet.

This handy skill doesn’t actually improve my carapace in any physical way, what it does do is give me insights and instincts to help make best use out of my external skeleton. I can feel the skill at work in my mind as I close in on the claw centipedes and deliberately allow them to strike towards my body. Seeing the angle of the attack I almost subconsciously shift the position of my body to present a greater slope to the enemy, blunting the impact and reducing the surface the clawed beastie can grab hold of.

Gweheheheh. Behold my skillful maneuvers!

Ouch!

centipede has approached from the side and bitten

skills

and take it like an ant! I try to

blunting the attacks of these monsters,

defense has reached level

ones’ defensive skills, tanking blows from weak enemies! This is the

battering me on all sides as I continue to make small

defense has reached level

Bwahahaha!

Wait, Tiny nooo!

over, impressive fists crackling will blue electricity and in

turns his bat face

Well done buddy.

eating scooping up handfuls of monster and cramming it into

... gross.

I can find. After searching around the outside of the mound I manage to find a small, tennis ball sized lump which I cannot really describe. When I try and pick it up I find that it

bomb?! Did it really manage to squish all of

truly terrifying level

a car crusher launched from

centipede. There is probably a couple of

will probably

where were those

when I scanned the mound as well as that strange convergence of energy at the deepest

seems as if one of the cores has simply vanished, perhaps crushed by the gravity bomb... Whilst the second is deep

over the edge of the mound I get my first glimpse of the inside of the centipedes home. It appears as if the outer layer of the mound covers a large hollow space on the inside, a space that extends several meters underground. These mounds contain even

down the bottom of the mound the open space converges again into a narrow hole that extends deeper still. Right in the bottom I can see an extremely bright source of concentrated mana. The mana is so thick I can visibly see it swirling in place,

the heck is

centipede appears to have a slight blue tinge to its carapace, and is slightly smaller than the normal

a fight against something that could obliterate the nest in one hit? Thought your only chance to survive

Nobody slips past this