Chrysalis

Ho God! What the heck is this overwhelming itchiness!? From what depths of skin irritant hell did Gandalf find this sensation? My body is fire! My mind is breaking! Why am I the only one who seems to be bothered by this? When Tiny spends Biomass he barely twitches and Crinis doesn’t have a face so I can’t tell what her reaction is but they don’t seem to suffer like this!

Why Meeeeee!?

Eventually the torture ends and I slowly pick myself up from the ground.

I hate it. I hate it soo much.

Now what’s next?

First I try to inspect my own carapace to see what has changed and unsurprisingly the shimmering diamond patches of my carapace have extended even further. Hang on a sec...

I peer closer to try and get a better view and what I see shocks me.

It isn’t that the patches of Diamond have expanded, but rather they’ve been pushed outward by a core of pure diamond. In the centre of each diamond covering the carapace itself, my own exoskeleton, has been transformed into actual Diamond.

I’m getting more and more expensive...

So is this what will happen if I keep choosing to upgrade this path? I won’t just get a diamond layer atop my carapace but my carapace will actually change into diamond?

I’m not sure how to feel about that.

Will my inner carapace plating still be able to heal my carapace if it’s made of diamond? I suppose it will, it all seems to mesh together even when you don’t think it should, Gandalf seems to have those things worked out well enough.

Next I flex my mandibles, trying to sense if there is a difference. They certainly feel stronger and more solid. Curiously, I channel my mana into them and am pleased to note how smooth the flow of mana feels. The mandibles themselves immediately glow with the energy of mana. Ooooo this feels strong.

Eagerly, I check my status to see what has changed.

My Savage Infused Mandibles +10 has now become Empowered Mandibles +15 and my

Hardened Diamond Carapace +10 has become True Diamond Carapace +15.

it only cost me

Anthony. Still have more to

236 Biomass left. Yikes.

a pop I have enough left to upgrade five body parts to +10, and I only needed enough to cover four, so I should be able to get

right. Here

like to upgrade

Yep!

you may choose

blossoms within my mind, filled with the possible selections of pheromone upgrades

What the heck? I mean... I guess the ants don’t inhale

with them? Could be handy for setting someone up for a mental

pheromones, fill up an enclosed space with this stuff and then

option

your pheromones more persuasive when being used to communicate with others, causing

get the Queen to reconsider the rare core situation with this! I’ll

upgrade your Deep Gravity Magic Gland to

Awww yeah.

level you may

Aaand the menu again.

magic gland sounds interesting. This is the one Tiny ended up choosing, which condenses the mana held within the gland slightly. If this upgrade were chosen multiple times and reinforced, perhaps you’d have fully condensed mana sitting in the gland, ready to go, without

brains to do that work so that

effects that make spell casting with the mana easier but I feel like that’s a waste of potential. I can increase casting speed by buffing up my brains during evolution, I don’t

that I think would be powerful or should I double down on increasing the capacity

to unlock the gravity mana affinity skill and start levelling it up. At that point I’ll be given the knowledge of the spell shapes that are unique to Gravity

going to take the

And next!

your Divergent Coordination Cortex to

Let’s keep this rolling!

you may select

Another menu!