Chrysalis

Having severed the stem of the plant the huge flower on top topples to one side, its comically oversized mouth thrashing about, trying to bite me until the final bit of energy leaked out of its body.

[You have slain level 6 Flos Fame]

[You have gained experience]

Muahahaha! After smashing through the kingdom Animalia it’s time to reap Biomass from Plantae!

There are dozens of plants scattered about the tunnel engaged in this battle, some of them attacking with vines, trying to cut and control their prey so they can bring to their cavernous mouths, whilst others employ different methods of attack. Towards the back I can see a completely different looking plant. A long tube like flower head sits atop a bulbous base, the tube on top seems to be rotating as if tracking the action. All of a sudden a huge jet of liquid erupts from the flower, gushing straight at me!

LEAP!

Pushing hard with all legs I jump upwards and to the right, narrowly dodging the spray that I can see is a very familiar sort of attack. Some of the fluid splashes over the creature I’d just killed and begins to eat away at the body at a ferocious pace. That is some serious acid!

The damned plant is aiming at me again. Quickly legs, dash!

["Hold on tight back there!"] I shout at my passengers as my legs once again fire into top gear, moving so quickly they completely blur out of sight.

"Weeeeeee!" giggles Vibrant as the air pressure has her clinging onto my carapace with only a few claws, the rest of her legs dangling behind her in the air.

I thought I said hold on you moron!

Checking on my other passenger I can see that Crinis has also extended out of a few extra tentacles to let them be blown backward by the wind. At least she was sensible enough to not let go with any of her other limbs...

I can’t wait until these troublemakers are too large to ride on my back. Not long now Anthony, hold on a little more!

Somehow the tube plant is able to track my movement and fires several short bursts of acid towards me as I race toward it, forcing me to zig and zag to throw of its aim. I can almost smell the fear of this aggressive vegetable as I close in, mandibles slowly opening wide!

*Splintering chomp!*

and not my own physical ones I crunch down savagely on the bulging sack at the base of the plant. As I expected, the moment my jaws puncture through the soft flesh of the plant, massive gouts of acid begin to spray out

hasn’t taken any fatal damage. Aiming another shot at me, from point blank range I can almost feel the plant screaming at me "Damned meat bag! Take

away. The usual jet of fluid doesn’t materialise, instead a rather sad dribble of acid pours out of the tube. Without sufficient pressure it

Gweheheheh.

my two passengers having way too much fun, disabling the plant monsters by trimming their leaves, chopping at their vines and puncturing their weak points. Tiny continues his berserk rampage, ripping plants apart with his bare hands, smashing their main bodies to pulp, even shoving his arm into the gaping mouth

that strictly necessary Tiny? You could have just punched it in the face, but no, pulling it inside out from its mouth. That’s an image I have to live with now,

of the experience off to Tiny and letting Vibrant take the last hit on two of the plants to

for the

new life

cuisine. Hmmmmm. Chewy, rough, extremely fibrous, almost like eating a rope... and oh! .. The internals are quite.. Squishy and..... Horrible. This is

that is basically a nice pie on legs?! Or a monster that fires roasted chicken out of its face cannon?

kitchen at the castle

into the Biomass with gusto. I’m still confused at how Crinis, despite being so much smaller than me, manages to have a bigger mouth

Oh well.

have consumed a new source of Biomass: Flos Flame, you are

profile of the Flos Flame,

the hunger flower uses heat sensitivity to track its opponents, attack them with sharp vines and drag them to its mouth

source of Biomass: Acidum Ollam, you are awarded

profile of the Acidum Ollam

acid to attack and defeat its foes. The main

consumed a new source of Biomass: Vinea Bestia, you are

of the Vinea

Beast, The vine beast is a curious cross of both plant and animal, being a mobile vine nest that doesn’t have a distinct main body but spreads its vital organs around its network of vines. Whilst this does make the creature difficult to fight, with no central target to strike, if you can identify a key organ in one of the vines it

...

vines of the